Provider: Jill
Lorang
Profession: Farmer/Rancher
Hometown: Great
Falls, MT
October, 2007 Diary Entry
The summer always seems to go so fast on a farm or
a ranch and this summer was no different. I had high hopes of getting
way more done that what I did. It was my intention to paint the chicken
coop, the white trim on our big barn and a small garage that we have at
our place. Oh well, there is always next year!
I want to say thank you to Stuart Hobson Junior High
and the elementary school in Washington DC and to the students of Mabelvale
Junior High in Little Rock Arkansas for adopting me last year. I
had a great time at your schools!
Spring started wonderfully last year! We had
so much rain and the grass was belly deep on the cows by the first of June. However,
July and August were very hot and we did not get any moisture. Needless
to say, the grass dried up pretty fast. We have been getting rain
again now.
We started haying the end of June and we were done
by the middle of July. I was able to work full time in town and
still run the swather at night and on weekends. We did not have any
major breakdowns this year, which was good.
The middle of July was the County 4-H Livestock Show
and Sale. The Eden Livestock kids did great and I was very proud
of how hard they worked to get their livestock ready!! Speaking of
the 4-H club, I bought them all Provider World passes, so be watching the
site and you maybe able to visit with someone your own age who lives on
a farm or a ranch!!!
The end of July, harvest came. It was early again
this year because of the heat. Kevin helped drive combine for mom
and dad and for a friend of ours. I also went up to Mom and Dad’s
and drove truck and combine for a weekend. It was a busy weekend,
but we got quite a bit done.
Dad just got done planting the winter wheat seed. He
finished planting just as the rain came. Some farmers waited until
after the rain, but most planted hoping and praying that it would rain
and it did!! Winter wheat is wheat that is planted in the fall, germinates,
sprouts and comes up. It needs the winter to be dormant and than
grows in the spring.
Well, I will sign off for now, but will submit another
journal in November. October is always a busy month with the shipping
of calves.
KEEP SMILING!
Jill Lorang
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