Life as a farmers wife.

For Those who don't know, I am married to a farmer & when we got married there were a lot of things I needed to learn.

John Deere is not the only tractor.

Before I got married if you were to ask me what brands of tractors I knew of I would have said John Deere, That's all I knew, you say tractor I say John Deere, you say John Deere I say tractor, now I know so many more John Deere, Case, Allis Chalmers, New Holland, Farmall and more!

(Although if you were to ask me which one of our tractor is the 8070 or the 7045 I couldn't tell you without seeing on the side.)

How to drive a tractor.

So I don't know how to drive all the tractors, But I have learned to drive a few of them when John needs me to help him get a piece of equipment unstuck, 

What Chopping & Packing is.

                                                Chopping Corn Silage & Packing Haylage

     You Might Be a Farmer's Wife...

            (I found this cute article online and thought I'd share)

• If your second vehicle is still a pickup:
• If your husband has ever used field equipment to maintain your yard:
• If you’re in the habit of buying foodstuffs in bulk:
• If "picking rock" is considered a chance to get out of the house:
• If taking lunch to the field is as close as you get to a picnic:
• If that pail with a hole in it is a flowerpot in the making:
• If your rock garden was hand-picked:
• If you can mend a pair of pants and the fence that ripped them:
• If the shopping list in your purse includes the sizes of filters, tires, overalls, chains, belts, lights, cables, spark plugs or shotgun shells:
• If your tan lines are somewhere below your shoulder and above your elbow:
• If you ever went on a date to the rodeo:
• If you’ve ever been grateful for fingernail polish, because it hides the dirt under your nails:
• If you’ve ever called your husband to supper, using a radio:
• If you have lots of machinery and each piece is worth more than your house:
• If the neighbor’s house is best viewed with binoculars:
• If the directions to your house include the words, "miles," "silos," "last," or "gravel road":
• If the tractor and the combine have air conditioning and an FM radio but your car doesn’t:
• If your storage shed is a barn:
• If you measure travel in miles not minutes:
• If your farm equipment has the latest global positioning technology and you still can’t find your husband:
• If you consider "hot dish" a food group:
• If your husband says, "Can you help me for a few minutes?" and you know that might be anywhere from a few minutes to six hours:
• If you plan your vacations around farm shows:
• If grass stains are the least of your laundry problems:
• If your car’s color is two-toned and one color is gravel road brown:
• If you knew everyone in your high school:
• If you’ve ever said, "Oh, it’s only a little mud.":
• If your husband gave you flowers, but you had to plant the seeds yourself:
• If you've used the loader to reach the windows when they needed washing:
• If you’ve ever discovered a batch of kittens in your laundry basket:
• If you shovel the sidewalk, with a skidsteer loader:
• If you can find a use for that old tractor seat:
• If quality time with your hubby means you'll have a flashlight in one hand and a wrench in the other:
• If you know the difference between field corn and sweet corn:
• If you can make a meal that can be ready in six minutes and will still be ready in two hours:
• If "sharing a cab" has nothing to do with a taxi and everything to do with getting across the field:

 

Legacy Farms https://www.facebook.com/pages/Legacy-Farms/121241704581383
Instagram http://instagram.com/seschloneger
Citrus lane https://www.citruslane.com/invitedby/Sarahanne.Schloneger.2637592