I can move my arms again....yipeee... still a little stiff in the shoulders but much better...

In town today, we took our stock trailer filled with barrels to pick up some fine rock chip sand combo stuff, great for packing and making a hard base for sidewalks etc...but I couldn't convince R to just have them deliver it in a big truck..firstly, we didn't need that much and because we live so far from town...they charge an arm and leg for delivery...so R said we would save money and just fill the barrels....okay, I am all for saving money...especially since the cost of this little "weekend" project is spiraling out of control.  So we arrived at the cement plant to pick up the rock chip and I am sitting in the truck waiting...when I finally hear R opening the trailer and walking inside....I get out after a few minutes to see how they are doing it...and it find only R back there...pailing the rock into the barrels....At first I am appalled that he is having to do it himself.....and say something about that...he laughs and says "those guys do something by hand..."  ahahahahhahahaha  anyway I couldn't just stand idly by and let him pail 6 45 gallon drums full of rock chip so, in spite of being in good clothes and just having a shower...I pitched in....I got inside the shitty dry manure covered trailer and took the pails he handed me and filled the barrels...I filled 4 of the six...he filled the other two alone.  I tore the skin off of one index finger...from a rough edge on the bottom of a pail...because I wasn't prepared to handle pails when we left home , I never thought to bring gloves...so now I am all bandaged up and hopefully it doesn't get infected...R thinks it needs stitches...but I don't think it's that bad...any way it was worth it because we brought home those 6 barrels of chip...for only $23.    all total....sweet deal....

now we just have to unload it........grroooooaaaaannnnn.

Now we are ready to finish up the project....R will have to drive the grain truck into town for some gravel when we have the blocks placed...but that will be easy...

On another note...things are getting pretty desperate here...for rain...we have had barely an inch in all of May and June together...while in southern Alberta they are flooded out... today begins the fast slide into trouble...R had to phone crop and hay insurance and tell them that we are turning the cows into one of the fields we were going to cut hay on...the pastures started out good enough but the first fields the cows were put on at the end of May have not re-grown and won't until we get at least a couple of inches of rain...the grasshoppers have hatched now...I see them hopping around in the yard.....

I just keep telling myself...I love farming, I love farming, I love farming, I love farming...