Looking Like a Farm

Even though we do live on a 100 acre farm, with the old farmhouse gone and living in a new one, and without a barn or other buildings or livestock or chickens, it didn't really "seem" like we live on a farm!  But now that we have a machine shed - with equipment being stored and worked on here, it's starting to look and feel more like a farm around here!

Bill recently got some fuel barrels painted and moved here that you can see on the north end.  You can also see our trees have some standing water.

This was my view from the bedroom a couple of days ago.  Bill was power washing the quadtrac.  I'll be in it working ground this spring once we finally have some warm, dry weather.  

Last night we had sleet that covered the ground.  We've been getting much needed off and on gentle rain the past week - about 6" total.  They say that we still need more, but I think at this point we'd rather have it warm up, get the crops planted and then have more gentle rain as needed.  (we don't want much do we?)  The farmers are starting to get antsy since we could've started planting Apr. 11th.

Tim traded semis - this is his new one sitting here.  We don't have matching trucks anymore.  They were both white with blue trailers like this one below.   We have a mix of colors anyway- some green/John Deere, some red/Case.  (many farmers have JUST John Deere or ALL Case).