You know you’re a farm girl when

[Hightale]

@fledermaus

@Libby2563

Has anyone already said, “When all of your pockets contain hay chaff, all of the time?”

Once, at church choir practice, I stuck my hand in my pocket wondering what was in there and pulled out a handful of dried mealworms. All were gratifyingly shocked.

Airport security pulled me in wanting to know what the weird smelling mushed up brown stuff in my hand bag was……er they would be the dog treats I forgot to take out after a vet visit with my anxious boy

[Libby2563]

You know you’re a farm girl when this is a sight more exciting than presents under the Christmas tree:

[lenapesadie]

All the hay

[PaddockWood]

Thought of this thread this morning with my recent conviction that mowing chaf (that fine crap that you get sprayed in when it’s windy and you’re mowing) is a free hair product for volume.

Only a farm girl would make that discovery.

P.S. I know there is a fine line because we know too much chaf crap ends up showing on your scalp.

[lenapesadie]

I feel this farm girl hair tip!

Another one is that if you put your hair in a high pony, work up a head of sweat doing chores, then let your hair air dry in the pony you’ll have mega volume when you take the pony out

[PaddockWood]

See… we could create the Mega Volume Pony Mane hair product!!! The combo of mowing chaf and sweat with the bonus adorable printed pony printed hair tie!

[lenapesadie]

Shavings in hair optional

[moonlitoaksranch]

Your spouse has clean tools in the garage and you have your dirty tools in the barn.

[JBCool]

What are clean tools?

[foggybok]

I’m not allowed to touch the clean tools in the shop.

I have my own barn set

[mht]

When a load of stone is considered an acceptable gift for birthday, anniversary, or Christmas.

[lenapesadie]

Absolutely acceptable any time

[pony_grandma]

The delightfull sound of beep, beep, beep!

[carman_liz]

Not sure of anyone’s age or generation on here… but there is a Juvenile back that a&& up remix going on in my head right now… you a strong farm girl why dontcha back that truck up… hehe

[PaddockWood]

Thought of this thread yesterday while spreading my first batch of beautiful, rich, compost. Almost two years old. And being a farm girl means things are not always easy. Don’t have a second tractor (yet) so had to unhook the spreader, load it w my FEL, rehook up, and go spread. Over and over. She’s a small spreader because that’s all she’ll be doing occasionally.

Only farm girls can quite appreciate the satisfaction of having made this stuff by tending to it and seeing it slowly turn into black gold like the Beverly Hillbillies. I’m out spreading wearing a big ole ranch hat because that stuff starts flinging and the next thing you know you’re getting hit in the head and compost is trying to go down the back of your jeans.

Maybe I’m driving too fast?

[carman_liz]

How tall is the pile can you park the spreader next to it and just kind of shovel it in from above and just let it fling down into it at all at least for part of it? I do that with my little newer spreader all the time or I back it up right to it and put a Muk tub at the bottom of the pile and just kind of pull it down into the muck tub with a shovel and then put it in the spreader usually about 4 or 5 buckets and it is full though.

[PaddockWood]

Hi Liz, I need to go check the thread on your sweet girl. I use my front end loader and it’s pretty good size. I made 6 runs yesterday and it’s the 11ft length spreader - that would have killed me to load by hand. I can get three dumps with my FEL each time to fill the spreader.

[carman_liz]

Ahh, yes then I would say it is worth it to unhook! Is it ground driven or are you dealing with a pto everytime?

[PaddockWood]

ground driven - thank goodness

[carman_liz]

Hmm hook it to a truck?