Apreaves and other farm women: Does harvest change your birthday party plans?

BabyCarryingVessel · September 2013

Does your husband shut down the combine for family gatherings and parties? DH, his brothers and my FIL rarely shut down for family things, and if they do "have to" stop for a party, they are usually in pissy moods. You probably understand this, so it's why I'm asking. Are you having a party for LO as you normally would? I decided to have the family over for an evening dinner, then the girls will smash a cupcake and go to bed. H is happy with this plan and I am too. I guess I'm really just wondering what family parties are like for other farm women? Tense? Not fun? Full of irritable men? Please tell me I'm not alone!

LexiSophie55 · September 2013

You are not alone!

We will take turns if we have to, but so far no one has thought it will be a problem. It's very possible someone will just have to eat their dinner in the combine / grain truck / tender truck / etc. But more than likely that will be my uncle, who is less important than my dad, grandpa, husband, and brother.

We just know that's the way it is, we love farming, and it doesn't usually bother us. Of course we see each other daily, so it's not anything special when we get together...it's just another day of hanging out.

Now, Mother's Day when we are trying to plant - that seems to be a tough one around here. If it's in the planting window, we are planting. We seem to have a bigger window for harvest.

BabyCarryingVessel · September 2013

Thanks Lexi, and I agree that Mother's Day is a tough one. I've watched my SIL (three kids) have birthday parties during harvest and planting for 8 years and I am so tired of all the contention that these parties bring. I promised myself before having a baby that I wouldn't do big parties in the middle of the day for this reason! Sure enough, I had two harvest babies!

BabyCarryingVessel · September 2013

@apreaves, that's the way it is! Maybe we'll all get lucky and it'll rain! Do you raise chickens for meat, eggs or both?

Clovesjellybeans · September 2013

(I have nothing to add, I just want to comment on how fascinated I am by all this...go on!

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BabyCarryingVessel · September 2013

Cool! Do they go to Tyson or somewhere else?

ChrisG83 · September 2013

apreaves said:

They are raised for meat. They are brought when they are a day old and usually leave to go to the plant to be slaughtered at 63 days old. My husband grows about 180,000 chickens each 9 weeks. They eat millions of pounds of feed. It really is mind blowing.

Holy shit that is a lot!! :-O

Okay a question for farmers again. How big are your farms? BCV when you posted that one pick it looks like you have a ton of land. Are your houses on the farm? Also and I am totally serious, do any of you have a rooster to wake you up?

BabyCarryingVessel · September 2013

apreaves said:
We live on about 80 acres, only 11 of that being farmland,the rest is our yard and trees. My family farms about 12,000 acres but in South Carolina our farmland is nothing like in BCV's picture. Our farmland is broken up in different locations.

Holy crap that's a lot of farm ground! We are in the Mississippi River bottoms, and they farm about 4,000 acres... Plenty to keep h, his two brothers and dad busy! We live on five acres off the farm. My single BIL lives on the farm, and we all live within about a mile of each other. Oh, and no rooster! Haha!!

LexiSophie55 · September 2013

We run about 2,000 acres and milk about 80 cows. Our land is in a five mile section or so. We live within that 5 miles, but not on the farm. Also within that 5 miles I have a grandpa, parents, brother's family, sister/boyfriend, and 4 sets of aunt/uncles. My brother lives on the farm.

No rooster at our house. My sister has one...it's annoying....really really annoying. I want to shoot it - they won't let me.

ChrisG83 · September 2013

Where I live our houses are seven feet apart from each other. I am so jealous of you guys.

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