Any other harvest widows out there?!

[Lala1980]

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

cantthinkof1 - you need to continue that story with...

The farmer is a bit grumpy

He's had to make the hay into silage.

But the wrapper has broken.

He's even more grumpy.

It's raining in tractorland...

It's raining in tractorland...

The free range half blind pet lamb that the big tough farmer didn't get put down is going for a swim in the ditch.

Oh look the Farmer is all muddy.

I didn't quite catch what the farmer called the nice little pet lamb.

It is raining in tractorland....

(Oh and funny you should say that about the wrapper..........)

It's raining in Tractorland...

The farmer has sorted the lamb out.

But he's just come in covered in slurry.

The sheep dog fell in the slurry pit (again).

Because he was chasing the ducks. (The dog not the farmer )

The farmer is swearing because the wrapper is still broken.

It's STILL raining in tractorland...

It's raining in tractorland...

The farm children were fighting and pulling each other's ears.

The farmer has taken the bailer to be fixed but was given bad news as the bailer is unfixable....miffed farmer.

The sheep got soaked just before shearing so they had to be rounded up and put in the shed which needed clearing of dung first and jet washed. Sweary farmer.

The farmer's wife tried to make jam but forgot all about it in the melee.

The farm children have their teeth glued together eating strawberry 'toffee'.

All is quiet in Tractorland.

pmsl at the tractor teds!

No we dont' have hail cover. That conversation goes:

Dad: Nope, way to expensive and pointless
Me: Are you sure? Last time we had hail damage you barely coped. Will you cope if it happens again.
Dad: of course I'll cope, you'll just have to remind me how expensive it was.

Fast Forward 6 months:

Dad: We should have insert numerous swear words got hail cover
Me: But, Dad, a logical decision dictated it was too expensive
Dad: I don't care, it would have been worth it, I can't cope with seeing my crop on the ground whilst everyone else is sitting pretty.

Argh!!!

Hello! Been away in London. I love this thread - it always cheers me up!
Nothing much to add except it's raining and DP is getting twitchy about the delay in harvest...
Hope you are all okay!

DH got up at 4am this morning to go and cut grass. The weatherman said it's going to be dry until Sunday morning.

Of course, the weatherman lied, it's still raining and he's grumpy because he can't get on with what he wants to do...

Welcome back lala as you can see we have all got a bit of harvest fever and going slightly loopy!

I'm going to whisper.... its dry here at the moment....ssshhh hopefully I didn't speak too soon.

Fingers crossed for the weather. Our ground wouldn't take the weight of the combine without getting stuck right now!!!

Wuffling this morning then as it is dd's 16th birthday, we are off to the beach which is miles away as we are as landlocked as you can get.

New-to-us bailer should be arriving, no doubt just as we are leaving.

Good luck if you are harvesting today.

Dh bewildered as he was forced to have his August bath.

We clipped our collies in June. Our boy dog had so many burrs and dangle-berries, he had to be virtually sheared. Oddly enough, under his disgusting coat, his skin was clean, no irritation and his coat came off like a sheep fleece. of course he looked ridiculous when we finished

Did you have the sheep-dip ready for DH, Gentleotter?

Yes. He has been dagged and dipped.

gentleotter which seaside are did you go to? Hope the sun comes out this afternoon for you!

lala We might get going on the rape again later after a morning of November type drizzle but the ground is sooo wet it's squelchy. I just know getting next years crop in is going to be a nightmare.

canthink you must be in the only dry spot in the country!

I popped over to see our elderly farming neighbours this morning as there's not much to do till harvest kicks in. They're great - I get there, the old chap is 89 and he's there with a scythe - in the rain - strimming the weeds from round his veg garden (which is bigger than most people's garden!)which he manages all by himself. He could teach the youth of today something I tell you!

Ssshh......Actual proper sunshine here!.......Ssshhh incase we scare it away!

Did think about taking the DC to the beach today but thought that might be tempting fate and if it rained it would be all my fault!

DH just normal grumpy now not really grumpy. He has gone from hating the olympics to obsessing about when the mens 200m final is.

Marking my spot on the thread.
Fellow farmer's wife here. There aren't just three of us in our marriage, there are two humans and 200 odd dairy cows (plus the DCs of course)
Nice to know other people can sympathise; my non farming friends think I am mad to put up with DH's lack of work/life balance.

The cat has just dismembered a rat in the sitting room. We have blood everywhere (including on the cat) as rat put up a fight. What is depressing, is that I find it easy to identify small rodent body parts because we have so many dismembered corpses.

Sun is starting to put in an appearance. However, DH is not happy because apparently the "silage is shit and wet and full of docks"... but at least he's on his tractor mowing and it's not raining. Yet...

Welcome Ladyflip. :)

I sympathise with the dairy side of things. We packed in the cows in Dec 2010 and have just finished selling our youngstock coming through.

I think farmers WAGS must be the only women to let their partners get other women pregnant - even if the other women are a right bunch of cows! I once told a friend that I'd spent the evening helping DH get 5 women pregnant. (He was AI-ing heifers). She was WTF, you should leave the bastard!!

That could be a thread for MN AIBU/relationships...

"My DH has got over 200 women pregnant this year... AIBU to stay with him him?"...

Oh,we are still here. Bailer arrived so dh was out practically licking it then flicking bits of hay to see how it was drying.
And, yes, shit silage/ docks/ nothing but a crop of stones here and we are 'a year behind'.

Determined to get to the seaside even if we are sitting there at midnight eating ice cream and grimly having a good time and not mentioning hay.
Nearest beach is over at Fife so a hefty drive away.

Sheep are drying out.

Can sympathise with rodent heads plus three in the marriage shared with cattle and bailers. Rodent body will be in a welly which you will put on quickly with bare feet.

Hello and haha Quiet
My DH told the midwives in the maternity ward that he basically ran a huge maternity unit by himself and that they couldn't tell him anything he didn't know already. It didn't go down very well.

At least he didn't threaten to pull out the calving ropes, Ladyflip! Or did he?...

He did threaten, Quiet. I threatened divorce. The doctor suggested a C section would be the best way forward. I agreed.

Incidentally (and this will out me in RL) my DH is 6'8 and I am of average height so it's no wonder a C section was required. There were some mutterings about never putting a small heifer to a big bull, but it didn't stop us having another DC!

Hi ladyflip and welcome. We don't have dairy but I have friends that do and I salute how hard you have to work. Us arable farmers don't know we're born ;-) OUr first DC is due next Jan and OH when watching OBEM with me and we saw a forceps birth quite seriously said "don't they get the ratchet out at this point". He has a lot to learn. Apparently I've been "baggin up nicely " too. There's nothing like a farming compliment!

Gentle Otter - the drive to Fife is worth it though! I have family in St Andrews and I love nothing more than a long walk on the west sands when I'm up there.

So, we try to get our drier going this afternoon and what happens - it only goes and bloody explodes! Why does nothing work the first time you try and use it in a season? Of course, Dad and I weren't sensible enough to try it out in the winter and have Mum reminding us of that the whole time.

Having done a full day at my own off farm job, have just been rung to say he won't be in til 9 as he is moving bales on a tractor borrowed from our contractor. Considering he milked this morning and started at 4.15am I guess that's a grumpy day lined up for tomorrow! (And me landed with children's bedtime, cooking the dinner, doing the other jobs til he falls through the door and complains he is knackered!)

On the plus side, the weather is looking better!

Think DH is having an affair with a girl called Hay Field. He is away to see her again just now.

Ladyflip I think our midwife just expected DH to get on with it himself and was a bit surprised when he wouldn't go anywhere near the business end of things. He hated it when I was in labour. I think he has seen it go wrong in cattle and sheep too many times! He wouldn't cut the cord.

My DH is a happy camper. It's not raining, he's cut 3 hay fields and he's planning on getting the maize sprayed this afternoon.

Infact, dare I say it, I CAN SEE SUN!!!