Hickory Wind Forge Posted Thursday at 08:09 PM Share Posted Thursday at 08:09 PM It's amazing how 1 mile can change your attitude. 15 degrees here yesterday morning, wth a biting breeze. Normally I would stay home at that temp but I had some horses that really needed to get done so off I went. First stop had 6 trims that didn't stand too well, and the girl holding them wasn't too much help. By the time I got done my feet were pretty cold, my back was kind of kinked, and while driving away I was thinking how nice it would be to cancel the next stop and just go home. Well, just one mile down the road I drove past a dairy farm where they had just pulled the sump pump out of the manure lagoon (which is every bit as disgusting as it sounds) and were trying to get it functioning... blowing heat guns on the pump and beating it with crowbars trying to get it unseized. I just started laughing, thinking how much of a walk in the park my job was comparatively. The chill vanished from my feet, my back loosened up and I was still chuckling as I whipped through the horses at the next stop. Actually I'm still grinning about it... - Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted Thursday at 10:07 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:07 PM You know what, your mention of a manure LAGOON really puts my memories of having to turn the compost pile as a teen. Being all horse manure deserves a double THANKS! Happily family friends with cattle ranches turned their compost piles with backhoe loaders. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted Friday at 09:09 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:09 PM I spent two summers working on a sheep farm for a gentleman farmer (although frankly not much of either) whose idea of mucking out the barn was "Don't. Hire some kid to do it next summer." Hacking through over a foot of compacted sheep manure (layered with straw, which gave it even more structural integrity) in a hot sheep barn was one of those experiences that you can look back at afterwards when life gets challenging and say, "Well, I survived that. I guess I'll survive this." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted Friday at 09:49 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:49 PM Ome thang that my time in Vietnam did for me was give me perspective. No matter how tough things have gotten in the years since I have always been able to say to myself "I'm not sitting in a hole in the jungle, it isn't raining, and no one is trying to kill me. How bad can it be?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted Friday at 09:50 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:50 PM What about when you're not sitting in a hole in the jungle and no one's trying to kill you, but it IS raining? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted Friday at 09:58 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:58 PM It's not great but acceptable. The negatives are cumulative and the last one is pretty much a stand alone. As for the others about all you can do is, as they said in Iraq and Afganistan, is "embrace the suck." G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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