Forever Optimistic

"He bought the farm!" Why does this expression mean the same thing as 'take a dirt nap' or 'swim with the fishes'?  How does farming equal death?  I understand maybe the sense of being tied down, the farm is a 24 hour a day, 7 day a week, 365 day a year job.  It is more than a job, it is a lifestyle, one that has the power to consume you.  The cow carrying twins will always calve when it is -10 degrees and the waterer will always flood the barn when you have some where else to be, the hay will always be ready on Sunday.

So you laugh at me and say "You chose to do this?" You want to know why...because I am forever optimistic.  I believe everyday that I get up things will be better.  Milk price will be a little higher, my favorite cow will have a heifer instead of a bull, nothing will break today.  I wouldn't change what I do for a minute. I take pleasure in all the small things.  Teaching my girls the value of hard work, watching calves being born, raising those babies into mature cows, getting kisses from my cows, working alongside my husband.  Believing that what I do makes a difference and that farming is a privilege.

Everyday I have to believe that farminz' fun despite the obstacles, or why would we do it!



Emma, Tess and Leah: my 3 little farm girls!



Must start somewhere

With Tess at school, Emma and Leah napping,  the house in moderate disarray, I am going to steal a moment to do something that I have been putting off for far to long now...start a blog.  I have gone back and forth about doing a blog on agriculture as I am what you would call a 'transplant'.  I was not raised on a farm.  We didn't move to a farm until I was a junior in high school and trust me if you would have told me then that I would have married a farming and be farming now I would have laughed in your face.  Not that I didn't have an appreciation for farming and all the hard work, I just knew how much work it was.  Funny how love changes your views, and maybe for the better.  Farming has given me the opportunity to really live my life with my husband and three little girls.  Something that I wouldn't change for all the hard work in the world.

I hope that you enjoy my take on my views of life on Farminz Fun Dairy! 
If farming wasn't fun, why would we do it!