Boot scrapping!

FFF Photo a Day - Day 248

Today was full of mud and boot scrapping! 

Good workout as the mud tried to suck your boots off at every step! 

Makes me excited at the thought of some more rain... #justkiddingnotreally

Sometimes its not all sunshine and rainbows....

FFF Photo a Day - Day 172

Sometimes farming isn't all sunshine and rainbows... sometimes its a bit poopy... and sometimes you should be wearing boots instead of sandals! #lessonsoftheday

The bucket...

FFF Photo a Day - Day 82

If your back door is anything like ours, the entrance way sports a collection of muddy barn boots, discarded work gloves, coveralls and hats along with the eternal bucket.... could be a bucket waiting to be filled with water, could be a bucket of kitchen scraps waiting to go out to the pigs, or it may be an bucket of eggs coming in to be washed.... but there is always a bucket. 

Pecking order

Day 13 - FFF Photo a Day

We raise chickens for meat in the summer months and eggs throughout the year. We bring our hens inside the barn during the really cold winter months. 

A couple of times a day we go out to feed, check their water and gather eggs. When you enter the coop, they come running to peck the snow off your boots! 

Even when you don't want to... Day 3 - #FFFPaD

Day 3 of our Photo a Day project features a pair of boots and coveralls.... Philip's boots and coveralls to be exact. On a day in which the temperature reads -43C with the windchill, this images epitomizes the sheer hard work that comes with the rewards of farming. Even on days like these, where others are cancelling activities, staying indoors and hunkering down, farmers still need to slip on their coveralls and boots and make their way out to the barn. Even more so on days like these... where the welfare of the animals on our farm is also a concern in this cold weather. 

One of the things about farming, is the work still needs to be done... even when its too cold, too hot, too buggy, there are other things to do or you are feeling sick... it still needs to get done... even when you don't want too. If you are lucky like me you have a wonderful husband or partner who will take the cold shifts (when I get a choice, I'm definitely a warm weather farmer!). Don't get me wrong, the rewards of farming are definitely worth the energy... you just have to remember that one doesn't come without the other.  So I leave you with a pair of boots and some things to ponder, should you be dreaming of owning your own little piece of heaven someday.