I'm baaaack!

Admit it: You missed my farm antics.
Corn started coming almost a month and a half-ish before I finished school so I missed a lot. When I arrived there were only two and a half pits left to fill. Last year I had like four or so pits that needed mountains. I'm trying to be star employee again so forgot about blogging. However, when people asked about my blog I assured them I would write. Give the people what they want right? Haha.

Not much has changed around here from last summer... the shack is still stands in all her air conditioned glory. There are a few new faces, in the corn trucks and in the commodity barn feeding trucks. The old corn truck guys were happy to see me back. Curtis said they kept asking him where his daughter was at (ie: me) and he kept telling them I wasn't his daughter. Haha. Curtis and Tony are still pushing and packing silage mountains. Oh! They installed an ice maker in the shop and that is nice when it works. There's a new HUGE feed wagon and tractor that Mr. Ray drives. (There were some feed trucks that caught on fire this year but I'll try to post on that later.)
I still do the same things: Weigh the trucks, get sample, test dry matter, record the information in the spreadsheet, read while I wait for another truck, chase the shadow of the shack around the building with my chair and repeat. Thrilling stuff.
We've had some really smoking days without much rain which makes for a very dusty place. It is so dusty around here it is almost like a permanent fog has taken up residence at the commodity barn.
I had Lesson Number One today on how to "feed the cows." Now let me clarify for those unaccustomed to large farm operations. Even though I say I'm gonna feed the cows doesn't mean I'm going to actually give the cows dinner. It means making feed sheets that the guys on the tractors and feed trucks will use to know how much of what the cows of a certain pen will get for the day. The program on the computer is kinda cool because it does most of the hard work for you.  I'll only have to do a little bit of math figuring. But I've been told I'm allowed to use my handy dandy calculator or even my fingers if I need to so I think I can do it.  Be excited Mom, I'll be doing real life applications math! ;)
Today's lesson was mostly about knowing where the feed was going and how to change a ration's dry matter numbers. Tomorrow, I think, I have to just do it I've learned that learning on the farm means just doing it. So fingers crossed.
Alright, I have a sample that needs weighing so I'll leave you with a saying that I heard last week that tickled me and wrote down for y'all. 

"I have an eye problem... I can't see myself down much more of anything today."

Pictures:
1. That's my friend Tony. He pushes corn in the big tractor. I've even pushed cows with him as a member of the awesome B Team at Cow Creek. He is great and makes me laugh. He likes to say "It's okay." And talk about his babies (who aren't really babies so much as kids).
2. That's Tony and truck driver 284 helping truck driver 735 back up into a pit. His truck is an automatic and he has troubles with it. When I pulled up, his cab was rocking like a sailboat in a hurricane. I felt sea sick for him.
3. My notes from Lesson Number One. If it looks like gibberish don't worry it still kinda looks like that to me too. Good thing I don't have to memorize it... yet. Haha.