Not sure why this didn’t post on Friday, but here it is.
Oh look, a Farm Girl Friday post! Must mean spring is coming.
This is what our neighbourhood looked like on Tuesday (before we were buried in snow). Colin was over a few side-roads doing a big cleaning job. He likes cleaning for these guys because it’s a family and neighbours who pool their cleaning. So Colin has one big job instead of half a dozen smaller/little jobs. Since it takes about 45 minutes to set up and take down the cleaner, it’s much nicer to make it one big job.
This set up is a bit different than usual. Often Colin pulls up to grain bin and the seed loads from there. That wasn’t the case at this farm. The new bins have unloading augers that are too big for the cleaner and risk breaking the beans (won’t grow if you break them). So they ran the auger at full capacity into a holding wagon. The fuller the auger the less damage to the beans.
From the holding wagon (left), Colin was able to use his loading auger to move the beans to the cleaner. From there the soybeans are then loaded into the ‘weigh-wagon’. When the right weight was reached for each farmer, the soybeans were loaded into their personal grain wagons. It was a very long day -almost 12 hours. Colin cleaned 35 ton of soybeans and 3 ton of oats.
Farm Girly has had some fun this week too. Figure skating has come to the end for this year (so early compared to at home). They had a big carnival and Grandpa and Grandma Lorraine came. Grandma Hattie was there of course too (she drives us every week). Daddy was even able to come.
The Future Star kids did their competition routine. Taylor wasn’t there so Ella got put in the centre of the pinwheel since she’s the next biggest (in muscle mass not height).
She made a great cheer leader!
My very happy Farm Girly has finished her CanSkate program in only 2 years! She got such lovely comments from her coach in her report card too.
I forgot to share this one on Wednesday:
Last Saturday was Cookie Day in Renfrew. Wow, what a miserable day! On the way to Renfrew we hit a wall of snow and could barely see the vehicles in front of us. Luckily we were almost to Renfrew or we should have turned around. The snow stopped, mostly, after 10. Then the water started dripping off the roof. We took the tablecloth off soon and had to use it to mop up puddles. Then the snowballs/pellets started. The lovely folks at Metro let us come inside the doors for the rest of the day.
You know the most common comment/question when people hear you homeschool? “What about socialization?!!” Well guess what? If it wasn’t for my ‘poor’ home schooled child we would have sold 0 cases of cookies. We had a Brownie and Spark member ‘helping’. Ella was the only one to actually stop people and ask them to buy cookies. We were there for 4 hours and we sold a whopping 10 cases of cookies (12 boxes in each case).
At Home With Us 
impressive amount of selling! well done! Ella is such a lovely young lady! how neat at the skating and about the farm stuff too!!! so crazy, the snow! God bless you! ❤
Snow again this morning. Will it ever stop. Yea don’t listen to people in regards to Homeschooling and socializing. They only think of themselves….being “stuck at home with their kids”. Truth is home schooled kids are not “stuck ” behind four walls with one teacher all day. They are learning everywhere they go and can handle adults questions better because they aren’t locked up in four walls for 7 hours a day.