The search for my farm tractor

I have begun to look for a tractor to use on the farm. I would like to keep my own fields mowed do my own plowing and disking for the garden and move manure around. Also I want to move some small logs out of the wood lot and maybe split wood with a pto driven wood splitter. The two characters above are not impressed with my goals, they just want to know when I am serving their dinner :)

I searched the local papers and haunted the local tractor dealerships for miles around without finding my tractor. I also searched EBay listings where I thought I had found my tractor and traveled 300 miles round trip to only find that the condition was not as advertised and I walked away from that deal I am sure to hear more from EBay about that deal. My search goes on for my tractor. It doesn't help that I am rather frugal (cheap) with my money.

The search goes on

What's been happening

The goats are ready to have kids any day now just a matter of when they are ready to be born.

Other than the goats getting bigger with kids I have had another bout of chest pain and spent a night in the ER. I have new medication that seems to help most of the time. This heart disease
problem is getting to be a bother. I am pre-occupied with the state of my health and somedays I am to tired to accomplish much, then other days I am fine.

The garden has been plowed and waiting for disking. I have the seed potatoes waiting to put in the ground. The pasture has been reseeded, I borrowed a neighbors tractor and equipment and spread the seed myself. This was the first time I drove a tractor and I loved it. I have begun looking for my own tractor to use here on the farm.

So for now we or on the brink of spring and this coming week we should have spring like weather up into the seventies :)

Tonight there is a thunder storm and my big brave dog is trying to find a place to hide she doesn't like the thunder at all and tries to get under something for protection.

Thanks to all that sent messages inquiring about me because I haven't posted in a while, it is nice to know people care.