Farmer's Daughter Notes// Farm Chores// Spring// Family

Last Saturday one thing on the agenda for the day happened to be farm clean up. Not exactly everyone's favorite job, but one that needed to be done. It's the sort of feeling you get from putting off cleaning your room for too long and things begin to accumulate...
At any rate, we headed out to tackle the job. Dad drove the tractor and trailer and the rest of us walked or rode along beside to pick up old feed bags, string, stray wire, etc., which had blown around to the far ends of the property during one of the recent windy days. The weather was so very nice that day that the job lost its chore feeling in the joy of being outside on that warm sunny day. We laughed and poked fun at each other’s "pale" complexion as we rolled up our sleeves in the growing warmth. There was talk of getting a new family picture since the current one on the website is very old. (It seems we get around to changing the picture every five years or so.) But we all voted for delaying the picture until we had been out in the sun a little more. (Vain, I know. But true.)
We walked along practicing our sparring skills by spearing old bits of paper and trash with fencing stakes. We tested our muscles pulling up old hoses that had "grown" into the ground. We braved briers by careful maneuvering to pull out bits of paper and the like that had blown into them.
After we were finished, the farm looked heaps better and we enjoyed and also soaked up some Vitamin D, naturally.