Farmer Ed

Sunday evening

We have a pretty steep hill which the horses like to charge up

It's all exciting!

 

 

Away we go off on our date!

 

Rosie giving me a hand hooking up the tugs to the 5 shovel 

Grace getting ready to lead off

Away we go

 

 

Heading out to the pasture to cut firewood as you can see it started raining.  The path to the downed trees had some little valleys to navigate and the horses did a good job of controlling the load even though they had sliding to contend with.

Listening to advice from Neil Diamond http://www.draftanimalpower.com/, I tied them to a tree by their halters while cutting.

Wood is free but you have to work at it.  Horses will come in handy pulling logs out of the pile.  Trees where cut down and piled up to make pastures usable again. 

Heading home with the load.

Our daughter Ellen fell in love with this little filly colt, half haflinger and half quarter horse, at the farm where our haflinger mares where being bred.  Since Ellen had worked so hard in the farmers market, we bought it for her.  Her goal was to have it halter broke in a week... this is day 2

 

 

 

Neighbor cleaned up his pasture so we have plenty of trees already laying down for us to harvest. 

 

 

Wood on the left is Osage Orange which has an interesting history! http://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/1995/11/06.html

Osage orange bow blanks and finished bows were prime items of barter among the tribes. One early report said a well balanced bow was worth a "comely young squaw" in trade. Another said that in the early 1800s the price of a good Osage orange bow was a horse and a blanket. Tribal wars were fought for possession of lands generously supplied with Osage orange trees.