Down below Eric KS is talking about how his wife has learned about farming to help him around the farm. I am willing to bet that there are a large majority of the men on here that have a good partner that happens to be a woman helping them be a success.
Here are a few of the memories I have of TWO GREAT Women that have blessed my life.
My first wife and I grew up together. I do literally mean that too. Even after we married as young as we did we continued to grow the rest of her life.
After she had done all of the work that is involved in making a house a home for a family she was always there to "help" me do whatever needed to be done. Many times that was just plain old hard work.
There where many an evening that the only time we would see each other would be in the cab of a combine or tractor. She would put the kids to bed and my Grand Mother would watch over the kids while my wife came out to be with me. We talked and planned when/how we where going to do things. Many times she just rode next to me leaning against me just so we would be close.
She learned how to plow,disk,plant and harvest. In the last few years I was in the service I was state side. I planned my passes around trying to farm some. If I could not be there she and my Grand Father did the few crops we had at that time.
She told me years later about how she was running the tractor picking corn one time in Dec. It was bitter cold but she could get this field done if she kept at it. She was so cold by the time she was done she had to drive the tractor to the house for my Grand Father to help her get off the tractor. Her legs where so cold she could not move them well enough to get off by herself. She would have only been 28-29 years old then.
Me second wife is another woman that was a force of nature before her health failed her.
We where still baling a lot of small square bales of hay when we where first married. She would drive the tractor pulling the baler while I stacked the bales on the wagon. She would be there in the hay mow helping me stack the hay in the barn. My sons where still little enought they could not lift the hay bales but could roll them down into the hay elevator. So she helped me stack in the hot hay mow.
She has been right there beside me when we had cows calve early in the snow. She once kept a calf in the utility room for two days feeding it every few hours until it could stand to go back out in the cold with its Momma. She also was milking the Mother for the milk.
These are just the women that have helped me directly. So I can only THANK them with all of my heartfelt devotion. I would not be much at all with out their partnership/help/love over the years.
I know many on here are not farmers but I bet that your wives have helped you be a success just in different ways.
So share a few stories about those GREAT Ladies.
Here are a few of the memories I have of TWO GREAT Women that have blessed my life.
My first wife and I grew up together. I do literally mean that too. Even after we married as young as we did we continued to grow the rest of her life.
After she had done all of the work that is involved in making a house a home for a family she was always there to "help" me do whatever needed to be done. Many times that was just plain old hard work.
There where many an evening that the only time we would see each other would be in the cab of a combine or tractor. She would put the kids to bed and my Grand Mother would watch over the kids while my wife came out to be with me. We talked and planned when/how we where going to do things. Many times she just rode next to me leaning against me just so we would be close.
She learned how to plow,disk,plant and harvest. In the last few years I was in the service I was state side. I planned my passes around trying to farm some. If I could not be there she and my Grand Father did the few crops we had at that time.
She told me years later about how she was running the tractor picking corn one time in Dec. It was bitter cold but she could get this field done if she kept at it. She was so cold by the time she was done she had to drive the tractor to the house for my Grand Father to help her get off the tractor. Her legs where so cold she could not move them well enough to get off by herself. She would have only been 28-29 years old then.
Me second wife is another woman that was a force of nature before her health failed her.
We where still baling a lot of small square bales of hay when we where first married. She would drive the tractor pulling the baler while I stacked the bales on the wagon. She would be there in the hay mow helping me stack the hay in the barn. My sons where still little enought they could not lift the hay bales but could roll them down into the hay elevator. So she helped me stack in the hot hay mow.
She has been right there beside me when we had cows calve early in the snow. She once kept a calf in the utility room for two days feeding it every few hours until it could stand to go back out in the cold with its Momma. She also was milking the Mother for the milk.
These are just the women that have helped me directly. So I can only THANK them with all of my heartfelt devotion. I would not be much at all with out their partnership/help/love over the years.
I know many on here are not farmers but I bet that your wives have helped you be a success just in different ways.
So share a few stories about those GREAT Ladies.
