From The Farm

Progress is being made on the house! YEAH - see some picture of it HERE. We now have it mostly enclosed and mostly tined....so the inside & really expensive work can start!

And with all the weather this weekend - I got some great ICE pictures HERE.

Harvest Wrapped Up

Harvest finally wrapped up last week:

Dad even got in on some of the hauling action!

I was in charge of bringing lunch!

Two of the three girls were home for the weekend! We had fun "helping" with harvest! Or at least taking pictures while everyone else worked! Now back to the house - I hope!

Harvest Continues

Though the guys may not have wanted the rain...it was a great day for a break AND to spend some time with my husband! He has been doing some 72 hour stretches and we just enjoyed curling up on the couch, watching a show and then taking a nap! We are done with beans and have got a good start on corn! It doesn't end though when the crops are out as the cows are need to come home too! It is the work that never ends...it just goes on and on my friends....

(damn me for marring such a hard working man)

Harvest Begins

Jon has finally gotten into harvest full swing this past weekend! Hopes to get back to the house as soon as all the crops are out -that way we can pay for it!!!

We started on our home!

This weekend the weather finally got nice - so we started on our new home! At least it will be new to us and right now all I want is to know we have a place to live, together, once we are married. Saturday we pulled the trees that had taken over the lawn and the house. We continued that Sunday until we were done and then moved inside the house. We removed the big stuff, tore up the carpet in the living room and started removing the sheetrock in the kitchen. We plan to tin the roof this coming weekend! We have been talking about it for so long it is some what of a relief to finally get started! But now I can worry about finishing.

The Flooding

We are finally getting out from under all the water - but here is what it looked like at its worst!

What a Christmas!

I ended up at Jon's farm and got snowed in there for the majority of Christmas! Was sad I missed out on visiting with the other family members...but we managed to celebrate 4 pretty yummy Christmases on the farm! Now I just have to figure out how to get out of scooping bunks again!

Working Calves

As I said to Jon...I finally get a diamond & about cut off the finger it is supposed to be on!

Sunset

"Vacation"

I am so glad to be back on vacation today! Seriously…this place is like a vacation compared to what I put myself through the past 5 days! I do it on purpose though - makes me like my job that much more. I played farm for the past days - bottling calves, doing chores, and cleaning up an abandoned farm (the one from the fire pictures before). We tore out fences, picked up old buldings, did some dirt work, pulled posts, loaded and unloaded a MILLION things…and so much more. The days started at 5:30AM and ended around 10:30PM! My muscles ache, I am sunburnt and scratched to hell - BUT I feel I accomplished something.

I am working on getting a few pictures up of the before and afters - but in the mean time - enjoy my video. We did tree clearing yesterday and I was determined to find a tree that I (and all my muscles) could push down. It took a few tries and a lot of grunting (I may have pulled something) but I got one down! SUCCESS!

Planting Corn: DONE

The corn is DONE!!! Jon finished last night at 10:30! Yeah! Now we are going to have to go out and celebrate...because it even got a nice rain last night and this morning. I don't think he has been this excited about planting for some time.

Planting Continues

Jon is determined to finish corn before May...which means today since it is supposed to rain for the rest of April! He is out there now - and has been in the field since 10:30pm last night. I chose not to pull another all nighter with him last night - so he went about it on his own. I hope he can get it finished - would make everyone much happier.

Time to Plant

Jon is getting crazy!!!! It is time to plant and Jon is determined to have the corn in by the end of the week! I volunteered that his goal should not be so high - maybe at least start planting

as the goal. I guess I am just ready for it to be done - planting time is sooooo stressful! This is the new JD planter and tractor - it is 24 rows, 60 feet long. Once they get going they should be able to just hammer out that corn and with this nice weather - maybe Jon will get it done this week!

Baking Kolaches

Ann and I attempted Kolaches this weekend and after one flop we asked Grandma Tycz for help! See the complete photo gallery on the WNAX website by clicking the link below!

http://wnax.com/Baking-Kolaches/4150080

Stitching the Farm together

Jon and I went to take pictures of the abandoned farm in one of their pastures that they are planning on tearing down and burning this spring. This long picture is a 360 degree view from the center of the yard. The image starts with the Barn (far left) which is to the north. The center of the picture (between the garage and house) is the driveway which is South of me. If was difficult to "stitch" all of these pictures together (13 in all) becuase the sun was so far set that the color of the sky was so different from one photo to they next. You can tell which way West is by how bright the sun still is on that side of the photo. I thought it turned out kind of neat so I am sharing it with you! See if you can find my seams - I think I hid them pretty well.

Fixing the Motorcycle

I helped fix the motorcycle on Saturday - and then didn't even get a ride when we were all done! But at least it works again! Maybe Jon will give me a ride tonight. This is what I looked like by the time we were done.

Kermit

Kermit is Susan's (Jon's Mom) dog. While George and Susan were on vacation Ann and Katie took the shears to him and chopped away! He looked like a little rat when they were done and as you can see he wasn't too happy! But at least he was cooler - it got hot that week!

John Deere Junk

Workin Cattle

The Sedlacek crew got together last weekend to work cattle - they have got a case of summer pneumonia. I helped - and got a few pictures of the crew! It was hot and has been too hot to get through the entire herd. Jon is hoping to finish up today or tomorrow! Had to work more than 500 cow/calf pairs.

It's hard to get pictures of the action when you are knee deep in it!