Any other harvest widows out there?!

[Lala1980]

Hello. Lonely and frustrated harvest widow would love to chat/vent with other farmers' WAGs...

Dh just in, wolfed two bowls of soup.
Bet he is asleep in about ten minutes.

That sounded as if I had spiked the soup with valium.

Mine is still spraying the wheat & not in yet.

I suppose he's making up for his "being lazy" and having a nap this afternoon... because he got up at stupid o'clock to start work this morning

I've booked tickets to go and see the new Batman film tomorrow night. I'm betting we won't make it because something will crop up.

Job for the day: get tractor out of ditch H put it in

I've spent the afternoon loading hay bales onto trailers. God I so live the high life!

I hope you got a tan, Tiger!

I feel bad now that I actually had some time with DP this weekend - one crop is cut and dried, and the next isn't quite ready!!!
Leaving him to it and heading up to London tonight to go to Greenwich Park to watch the show jumping tomorrow!
I feel awful seeing DP so dog tired and feeling unable to do anything to help him :-(

I've got whinging about the fact that it's too windy to spray & DH woke up like a bear with a sore head because he forgot to put the trailer with the round bale hay on in the shed last night and it rained.

Apparently it's my fault because I distracted him!

I'm not a harvest widow, but I am an orphan only child for now!

Family are haymaking and combining at the same time, though once the barley is finished there will be a lull as the oats aren't fit yet. My contribution these days is always food related.

DH spent yesterday wrapping bales and crawled into bed in the early hours of this morning. Away at silage again all day today don't know when he will return but atleast the weather has been ok but won't hold my breath!

DS1 (4) has taken to wailing "i wan't daddy back" if I don't give into his requests for sweets or biscuits! But the olympics has kept him entertained, he is going to be a diver!

We've got rain here now, so DH is gathering up all the old metal he can find and putting it in a skip to weigh it in. Last time we had a clear up and filled a skip with crap metal, we got near on £1000 for it.

It's a big incentive to tidy up the farm and get rid of all the old crap/broken farm implements. DH unfortunately is of the mind that all his old bits of shit might one day be useful. They won't, but he is a compulsive hoarder and thinks they might. twat

He is way again all day today at silage "might" (yeah right) be back before bath time.

Weather affecting play here in Wiltshire!
Harvest always = grumpy dp but he is sooooo tired...

I managed to persuade DH to finish early and come to Tesco with me last night. Problem is, I always spend more than I plan when he comes, as he wants to "try" stuff or buy stuff that "looks nice to eat".

He's currently happily filling up a skip with scrap metal, having sold all the hay he made last week straight off the field. It's raining here at the moment and the forecast is for more rain. Hopefully we'll have enough of a break so we can silage in the next week or so.

Farmers - never happy!

at the taking them to Tescos. My mum always said when she took dad she got the "ooh I didn't know you could still get these".

Raining here again!

Won't get to take the cattle to the local shows as DH hasn't had time to do any preparation. DS(4) is telling everyone the calf is going backwards!

Seem to be between crops here, but it meant my pony paddock hedges got cut...

LOL Lala

I've just made the NFU Insurance rep cry. We've moved our insurances to FUW and saved £1500 on all our policies with better cover and they insured my horses for the same cover as Pet Plan, but I haven't told DH

Where abouts on the west coast are you Cantthink? It's our local show next week and we're just praying its dryish

QuietTiger I work for the Mutual Have you checked your excess for the horses?

Fox - the excess is the same. :) That was the agreement, they had to give me the exact same cover as Pet Plan or they could sod off. They ended up giving me £3500 for tack as well.

To be fair, I think they wanted our business. The FUW seems to have gone through a spate of stealing a huge amount of business from the NFU in this area. Mostly because the NFU guy has managed to piss of 80% of the farmers

Feeling so depressed and unwanted... he's too tired to even cuddle to sleep...

Oh dear, Lala!

I have lost count of the number of people who say "ooooh, I'd love to live on a farm with lots of animals, it must be so nice living in the countryside" knobbers

Yes, I'm sure you'd last about 24 hours before you got fed up of the 4am starts because the cattle are going to market, the shit and dirt and knackered DH's, cancelled holidays, cancelled days out & social events, because something crops up/a cow has done the splits/a lamb is stuck/the cattle have escaped/the sheep have maggots/it's sunny so you have to do the hay instead of taking the day off, milking 150 cows twice a day/365 days a year...

Did you know that apparently, all farmers are rich, drive expensive 4x4's and get paid by the government for doing nothing? bitter laugh because I've just had a row with someone who thinks all I do all day is sit on my arse and drink tea

PMSL Cantthinkof1 - you must go to our local Agricultural show! DH stops and talks to everyone and we have tea/beer/cakes on virtually every trade stand because he's found someone we know, or he's catching up with someone he hasn't seen for a while!

We did all our "courting" in the milking parlour. I think we went out about 3 times to the cinema and spent the rest of the time covered in shit milking cows.

I knew I "was a keeper" when DH took me out to the local agricultural showin public and introduced me as his GF! Rural gossip, being what it is, it was halfway across the county by 5pm that he had himself a GF that his mother liked!

I think I'm new to this farmers WAG malarky... I'm not from farming stock, and although I've always been horsey, I thought being with a farmer and living on a farm would be a dream come true.
I assure you it's actually not a bit what I cracked it up to be ...
I will get used to it I'm sure, but the whole "all farmers have range rover sports" thing is a complete joke - he had the crappiest old vauxhall when I met him,. and now we have a ford focus... I keep my ponies on livery, not on the farm, but hey... I get free eggs!!!
Happy Fridays ladies! It's o'clock!