Ribeyes, Regressions, and New Roots

Planting season is officially DONE—praise the Lord! 🙌 In this episode, Addi and I are celebrating the end of the field work (and how fast it flew by!), plus how I survived the 4-month sleep regression completely solo. We’re diving into the ultimate steak debate of ribeyes versus filets, sharing the exciting news about picking up new ground, and getting honest about farm-life parenting. From helping toddlers understand why Daddy is working late to transitioning your marriage out of "co-worker" mode after the busy season grind, we're covering it all. Grab a drink, ditch the ribeye, and celebrate the end of planting with us! 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Depending on how old the child is, I feel like sometimes that could put that negative connotation.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Right.

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Or it degrade I don't know if degrade is the right word, but it degrades the people that are truly single parenting.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Right.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

So, Brady, I have a question for you. What's it like when the corn is high, but the chaos is higher?

SPEAKER_02 0:18

It's a lot of things, but it's never boring. This is the Farm Y Files, life between the rows.

unknown 0:27

Hi.

SPEAKER_02 0:28

Are we on? Yeah, welcome back. We're back. I feel like I've seen you. I'm like yeah, just been in this like planting.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Just complete chaotic mess, honestly. Worlds just surviving. So, yeah, today we wanted to kind of just talk about just catching up because Yeah, just how planting's been, how lives are different, how your husband has been.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

Well, and it was kind of funny.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

Well, if you asked Taylor and she saw him yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

No, she's such a lawyer.

SPEAKER_00 0:55

Cody wasn't even at work yesterday. But it was funny. I was driving up here and I was listening to the podcast that we released on Monday, and I'm like, when do we re-record this one? Well, I released late because I forgot about it. Oh yeah, but it's fine. Again, it's life, it's planting season. But I'm like, when do we record this? And then so I'm like listening. I'm like, this was even before we recorded a gardening one too. So I was just like, ooh, yeah, no, we really do need to catch up. So it's been good. It is plant like heavy planting season right now on the tail end. We're done. We finished yesterday. Okay, good. Because I obviously Cody wasn't here yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 1:38

So that's a really good feeling. You know how that goes. Yes. But our lives are just really different because with Cody's operation, our operation, the way we have it set up is like we go, go, go, and then Cody plant does cow stuff and then plants when we usually get wrapped up. So we're just like in two completely different seasons. Here's guys are still busy with the cows and stuff, and then go roll right into planting.

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Yeah. Well, it also is a little bit different up here compared to down there. Uh like we sometimes get more rain. Like we have got more rain this season, so it's still too wet to get out in the field. But then plus, it's dry land. Right. Up here it's mostly irrigated, right? So I yeah, we um worked cows yesterday. Uh, I shouldn't say we, I had no partaking in it. Well, he's gonna get so mad.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

But he doesn't even listen.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

So transparently. Um, uh yeah, I mean he listens when I tell him to. He's such an asshole. But yesterday he said, Yeah, I'm gonna work cows, X, Y, Z. Well, I worked all day yesterday, and then I had to teach clinical from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.

SPEAKER_02 2:54

So How'd you teach clinical on a Friday?

SPEAKER_00 2:56

That's when I choose it because if you're gonna miss clinical, you're gonna spend the Friday night with me. You're not going partying. Right. You're gonna you're gonna have fun with me. So, and honestly, that works best for my schedule. Right. So I did that. Well, I get a text on my phone at sometime later afternoon, early evening, and it's a credit card notification, like saying, Hey, you just spent over 250 or over, I think we have the threshold of $230. Like, you just spent over $230 at this place, and it's this meat locker down in like Washington, Kansas. And I'm like, so I called Cody, I said, Why did we just spend $250 at this meat locker? Which is sometimes where we get our I thought I would buy steak for everyone. And I'm like, okay, I appreciate the thought, but why $250 worth of steak? So then he calls me. I'm making this cake last night. Yes for and I did not do the one that you like the Oreo one, but it's the same concept, whatever. So I'm I'm making this cake late last night, and he calls me, and it's 9 p.m. because I let people out of clinical a little bit early. And he says, Well, do you just want to come over and eat? The steak is hot right now. So they're eating at 9 p.m., which is fine.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

That's late, but right. I mean, and we're all adults, it's not like we have a toddler screaming, but and so I'm like, No, I am in the middle of something. I I can't. And so he finally just brings it over.

SPEAKER_02 4:32

Oh, that was nice.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Yeah, it's nice, but then I look at the steak, and the stakes are huge. Great, lovely, like whatever. I said, We're not spending $250 on steak ever again for everyone. It's not happening.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

What did he get like the huge like T-bone?

SPEAKER_00 4:47

No, he did ribeyes, and his mom is the one that went down to get it.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

And so she just got whatever, which is again, whatever, fine. But I'm like, out of all the steak cuts, you choose a ribeye.

SPEAKER_02 4:59

See, and females are just so much different than men, because Tyler would have done the same thing. He would have got like some big, massive, fatty ribey and like wanna fillet.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

No, and that's I said, if we're gonna spend $250 on steak ever again, we're spending on a good cut and not a ribeye. He's like, a ribeye is a good cut.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

And I said, And the guys think that I have fat. Yeah, I don't like a ribeye. And I I was just like, I guarantee any other man that we ask, they would probably say a ribeye is their favorite cut.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

So I would love to know everyone's favorite cut of steak because I was just like, I would love a filet mignon.

SPEAKER_02 5:28

Oh, yeah, mine's a filet for sure. Anywhere I go, everywhere. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

That's my thing. And he was just like, Well, what cut would you like? And I was just like, Well, realistically, I would like a filet mignon, but if I'm paying money for it and I'm gonna have a good steak, that's what I'm getting. Yeah, so yeah, we ended up working cows yesterday. He's finishing that up today and then is gonna try to plant. We'll see. But we just picked up more ground too.

SPEAKER_02 5:51

Right, yeah, which is like really bad timing. I mean, like, great for you guys, but I know random.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Well, and it was literally the day prior. We were talking, and I was just like, Yeah, no, Cody didn't get the ground because we didn't hear anything.

SPEAKER_02 6:05

You guys weren't necessarily bummed, it was like, oh, yeah, you know, if we get it, great.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

If we it was just so close to home. Yeah, it was right across, yeah. So it's just like, you know, something that close, we need to put a bid in on it. And then Cody gets a phone call the next morning, he's like, Yeah, you got it. And I was just like, Well, apparently we did get it, Brady. Yeah, yeah.

unknown 6:22

It's like, oh yeah, good.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

And so, yeah, so we picked up more ground, and that's just like weird timing, like you said. So trying to get that all by seed, right, fertilizer, all of that stuff for it.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

So inputs for the ground you just picked up is yeah, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

I'm so glad that planting is over.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Right. Yeah, me too. Um for you guys up here at least. It was it's been a really weird year, I feel, because we didn't get in the field early. I mean, normally the guys are chomping at the bit. April 10th hits and we are like seeds are going to the ground.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

Right.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

But we had rain, which blessed. Like we need all the moisture we can get. So anyway, we got started late. I don't know. Was it probably like the 20th? We got in? 24th, somewhere around there.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

And then it was probably like a hard eight or nine days.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

And there were days.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

Not that they hadn't not that it that was it was only eight or nine days, but I mean like early in the morning, late, late in the morning. It was hard, yes. Like everybody's working, both planters are rolling.

SPEAKER_00 7:25

Well then hard planting season. Even at the beginning of planting season, Cody would show up back home at like two o'clock and I'm like, what are you doing here? Get out of here. This is just me being weird. But and he's like, Nope, the sprayer caught up with the planter. I'm like, okay, yeah, well, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:42

Yeah, so we follow up all of our wherever we plant with the sprayer, so it's just you know, it's not as many guys as harvest. Right. Where you've got two combines, three grain carts, or two grain carts, and then all the semi is running, unless we're going to a bin. So we don't need as many men, but still when you've got the planter, I mean, normally we're not running both planters and seed caddy and the spray at the same time. Normally, if the sprayer is going, we only have one planter going. Um, so then you know you only need like three or four guys. But still, like those yeah, eight days, like we're doing stuff and it's just busy, busy. It just feels like you, I don't know. I felt like I would get done with a day, and it was like, what just happened? Like, I feel like today was such like chaos and just like, yeah, nothing was accomplished or productive. I don't know. But then also Branson went through his four-month sleep regression. Literally, it probably started like two days before we got into heavy planting season. So I quite literally survived the whole four-month regression by myself, and I don't know how I did it.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

There was a Facebook post that I just like had a chuckle that you like shared one, and it was about it not necessarily the sleep regression, but the breastfeeding one. And so it like it said, Oh, I'm so excited to get a good sleep or something like that. And then it was like on the other hand, I know people I know breastfeeding moms will so relate to it.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

But it it said because I normally don't share stuff like that, but it wasn't really funny. But after a long, hard day of breastfeeding my boob barnacle, at least you can look forward to a long hard night of breastfeeding your boob barnacle too.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

And it like what I had a chuckle, I was like, why did we start calling babies boob barnacles? We're not starting them, but I think it's funny. Yeah, but I was just like, it is kind of true. So I was just like, Yep, Brady's definitely in the thick of it, and just seeing Branson, I know he is Well, yeah, I had to share it, and then I said, Chunky guy just doesn't want to give up eating every two hours. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

And you can tell, I mean you look at him and he's just Oh, he's happy though. Yeah, he's chunky and happy and just living his best life.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

Unless you're a stranger, then he's not happy.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

But so yeah, that was just crazy. Like it literally, the days were so chaos, and like from the time the kids open their eyes to the time they go to bed at night, it's just like pure survival and chaos. And then with Tyler not here, it's just you know, because I can look forward to lunchtime and then you know, five, six o'clock when we're not in busy season, and that's like a big relief for me. But man, for whatever reason, not him not being home for lunch and then having that five, six, seven, you know, like three hours um until they go to bed is feels like a lot more.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

Yeah. The and not to like mitigate the things that you're going through right now, but there's no more witching hour like with him with Branson. So like I could not imagine trying to wrangle a toddler. Like, I don't know. Obviously, I haven't been through either once, but I so I don't know if I would rather have the sleep regression or the witching hour, but I feel like I would have the sleep regression. Cause sometimes those witching hours are just Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

I mean he was he would cry. That was the worst. Cause like instinctually you just have this like want to help your baby, so when they cry like that and there's nothing you can do to console them, it's yeah, it's kind of a like just defeating feeling. But with the sleep regression, it's just like you look forward to that time of especially when it's been a really hard day, and Taylon is just like full two-year-old.

SPEAKER_00 11:11

She's just Go, go, go, go, go.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Yes, and she's testing all the boundaries, and she oh she is so defiant and wants attention, and she's figured out, especially when I'm feeding Branson, that I can't just like get up and discipline or sh you know make sure she has consequences. So she really likes if I tell her get off the couch, like she'll do it more. And she grins at me. And Addy, the wage inside of me, oh my gosh, I didn't think I could feel that for a tiny small child, but oh my oh she yeah. And I keep telling myself, she's really, really hard to parent, but she will make for a great woman one day. Oh my goodness, she's just yeah, she's full toddler. So, you know, you just get to a point where it's like, I just gotta get to bedtime. Like, we just gotta get to bedtime and it'll be fine. And then with Branson, he goes to bed, but then it was like 30 minutes later he would wake up, and so then I would go in, rock, put him back down, and then after that, it was like every 10 minutes for an hour. So to get anything done, it's like and then Tyler's coming home about that time, you know, 10 o'clock at night, and he's just like sometimes he would come in, especially in the beginning, and just like and I get he works really hard, but then he was figuring out like Brady's day is not done either. Like, literally, she is finally getting done with the whole putting Branson down every 10 minutes, right when I'm walking in the door. So I think we it took us a couple days to like get on the same page as like I'm home, but I'm still working, like my days are hard too. I get you're having hard days, but I'm having hard days too. You're in busy season, I'm in busy season.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

So I I kind of go back and forth in my own head, but when we are in those busy seasons and you do have children and you are really the only parent that is at home, do you feel like the statement of I'm single parenting right now is true?

SPEAKER_02 13:13

No, I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Okay, I never say that. That's what I I hate the like I'm single parenting this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

I will say solo parenting.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

I don't say that a lot, but I do say that I won't say single parenting because I mean life is fleeting, and Tyler is way too good of a dad to minimize his role. Yeah. So even though he's not here, like he is. Dad's providing for our way of life here. Like, mom gets to be home, and you get to have nice things, and we get to have a beautiful home because of what dad does. I make it the beautiful home, but dad provides it. And that's something I've really worked on having, you know, kids, especially with Taylon. She's to an age where she's really like soaking things in and repeating things and some of the false words sometimes. Sorry.

unknown 14:00

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 14:01

How you just like look locked eyes with like working through it.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

It's not just you. Um and so one of my big things is I never wanted to be the mom that when I'm having an issue with dad or with Tyler, that I'm like, I don't I don't want to make that candid comments about her dad around her. Because I don't want her to pick up on that because she doesn't understand that right now. I mean, she's at an age that her dad walks on water. I mean, quite literally, he does everything and more for her. Well, I hope it's like that for a very long time. Yeah, yeah. Um, but yeah, I just I don't know. I've seen some families that and you know, Tyler and I's relationship. It's the same with you and Cody. Tyler and I pick on each other, we are mean to each other, but that's like our love language. Yeah. So we're not like like we're probably more animated when we're not around the kids. But when I'm actually upset or irritated or the farm has yet again taken priority whenever I think it maybe shouldn't have, I don't want to make those comments around her. So she's picking up like, oh yeah, dad's not here because the farm. Right. I don't ever want her to have a negative vibe around the farm because of words that I'm saying. Yeah. So that's been a really because you know, last season her age is just there's such a growth in brain development from one and a half to two and a half. And so last year, like she'd I mean she missed her dad, but this year was much more like like sadness from her, like a lonely miss her dad, which was difficult. Just because I think she knew dad was working and she could go be with him, but I don't know, it's really hard to explain like how she actually understood this year.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

Well, she just made a comment upstairs before we came down here where she goes, I lost daddy. Yes, and it's like and you said we didn't lose daddy, he's out in the field, you know that that doesn't mean that we lost him.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

She asked me that yesterday. She said, Where's my daddy? And I said, Well, he's planting. I said he's busy, or I think he was actually spraying yesterday. But I said he's farming, he's busy, working. Well, I lost him. I said, No, you didn't lose him, he's just working. And then um this morning, where's my grandma? Because she knew Renee was coming today to watch her to so we could do a podcast. And I said, Grandma's coming over, she's at home right now. I lost her. So I don't under like I can't comprehend what she's what she thinks by that.

SPEAKER_00 16:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

If it's like her toy where oh I lost a toy, like I cannot see it and I can't hold it right now. So it's lost if she if that's how she's like connected.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

Maybe I mean there yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

So that's just been a different like hard in itself. Um, but also like a pro to that is she is comprehending better. So, you know, like using logic, like you know, we have to plant when daddy gets done planting, then he'll be home. So like today, unless I don't pray for no breakdowns, but we should be done putting on pre. So that'll be nice, you know, planting spring, everything will be done. So then tomorrow he'll be home full time. I mean, we still have stuff to do, obviously. We're gonna start hauling white corn on Monday, right? Just never ends. Yeah. But um it's not, you know, sh he'll be home before she goes to bed. Because there's days, you know, I see him every night, but there's been last week, she probably didn't see him for four days in a row. And then we finally went out and rode and rode with him so she could see him. I mean, she would FaceTime him, but it's not this. I mean, oh my gosh, Addy, he after that like long stretch, I can't remember exactly how many days it was, he came in and she just hugged him. I missed you, Daddy. No. Oh, it's just about breaks your heart, but so yeah, that's just been it's just been a whole new season. And I know even next year with Branton, like right now their growth is just wild. I feel like when you get to like the school age, I feel like six to seven isn't as big of a jump for development. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I just feel like things they're understanding. Her jumps right now are just crazy.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Yeah, they're just growing so quickly. Yeah. Which is just wild to think about, but there's some going back to the question I asked about like the single parenting or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

I just listened to your thoughts on that. No, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

I brought it up because I like as you were talking, I'm like, there's so many people that I hear, oh, yep, I'm single parenting for the weekend or XYZ. And it's just like depending on how old the child is, I feel like sometimes that could put that negative connotation. Right. Or it degrade and I don't know if degrade is the right word, but it degrades the people that are truly single parenting.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

And I I don't know if sometimes the words that we use, we may not use them in the way that we ill intentionally use them. We just say them. But we don't know the implications and the feelings of other people. And that goes both ways. Like I am irresponsible for my own triggers. I don't expect other people. Right. Like I need to be able to cope with them. Not saying that single parenting is a trigger to some people, but it might be. Yeah. And so sometimes that makes people feel one way or another.

SPEAKER_02 19:22

And well, and I guess in my situation, I just that's when I say like solo parenting, or like when I do ever say it, because I do think about, you know, I I have a brother who single parents it and I just I have relief coming, you know, whereas the single parents, they they don't. I mean, yeah, you might get a break there here and there, but like I know that this time will pass, and that's been a mantra in my head the last two weeks of this time will pass. Soon it'll just be a blimp, and and yeah, we'll just be back in regular life. But I know that, you know, single parents, they don't have that, they don't have whether it's mom or dad, they don't have a spouse coming to relieve them like I do, and you know, whenever we get through busy season.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

And I think that's also important as whether you're far in a farming community or not, just to check in on the people like you had your sister come yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Yes, and I literally texted her and I said, Do you want to hang out with your niece and nephew? And she said, Yes, when. And I said, When works for you. She says, I'm on my way. And I'm like, bless you, angel. Like, thank you. And you know, it was I I ended up staying around so I could feed and put Branson to bed because it just works better that way. So I think I left at like 6 45 and I got back at like 9 30. But even that like three-ish hours, it was exactly what I needed. It was all I needed to just like have a date and alone time with my husband. And I mean, I was sitting in the sprayer and Tyler's like, You want to listen to something? Or you're just not saying much, and I'm like, it's just quiet. I said that's all I want. Yeah, I said I'm just enjoying like not having someone to worry about, you know, not having to get Branson to sleep on me, or not having to tend to Talon, whether she needs snacks or a toy or something in the sprayer. Like, you know, it's just with kids, it's always they always need you a hundred percent of the time. And somebody's like, Are you okay? Are you mad at me? And I'm like, no, I'm simply just enjoying the piece and quietly. Right. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

So that exact conversation that you just said reminded me of a conversation that we had like in the early podcast, um, one of the very first few-ish episodes. We talked about if it and we used it in the context of when you came home, like what you should ask your spouse or what and so we just naturally like, how's your day? And it's like, okay, that's the same question that gets asked over and over and over again.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

I love that you brought this up because I think Tyler and I really need this. Like through planting, we really get it to that, like, it's almost like we're robots no, like coworkers. Oh, well yeah. Like we're just grinding, we're just getting Through like I'm tinkering kids, I'm tinkering the house. He's full farm. I mean, hard into the farming. Like, it's just we're both have so separate roles, and those sometimes don't tie together. So we're just going and we forget, like, hey, you're actually my husband.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Right. Well, and it also goes down to ask another question that you know that they want to answer.

SPEAKER_02 22:24

We have or maybe have to. They can't just like robotically go. I know Tyler asked me every day. How was your day? Fine. And I just sometimes I'm tired and I just don't want to read into it.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

And hey, Brady, I know that you really wanted to read. Did you get time to read one chapter of your book today? Right. Well, no. Oh, okay. Well, what can you do tomorrow to make sure that happens? Because I know that's important to you.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

Like, that's a question that I have to answer.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

Right. Like, those are the types of things that I sometimes feel like Cody and I get in that. I'm going to use robot versus co-workers, is just because it's like, okay, we have those two separate lives. I'm doing me. He's doing him. We will somehow end up in the same bed together at two o'clock in the morning, but then it's right back to the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

For you and Cody, it's more manageable when he's not in a busy season. Or do you feel like because I feel like you're always you have flows, but you always you like to have a pack schedule.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

Uh yes, I do like to have a pack schedule. And like just this last week, well, j a few days ago on Thursday was the last day that I taught my evening class over in Beatrice. So this upcoming week, I have a crap ton of travel because of state testing. And so I know that I'm gonna travel a lot. I know I'm not gonna be around. I know all of that. My brother's also living with me right now for a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 23:48

So that just puts a different dynamic on your household.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

Yeah, and it's fine, like and your routine and he's working, Cody's working, I'm working. We'll end up in the same house together at some point. But it's just like I know that I was super busy there, but I know what's coming up in the next busyness. But then I'm like kind of looking forward to not this next week, but the two weeks away. So I don't even know what day that would be. But because I won't have I have one solid week off from teaching. So I'm like, okay, great. Like I don't have anything, but then I'm like, but that's also graduation season for Fairbury, which is maybe God lined that up. All right, I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

So then we have You gotta link it on the pause.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

Balloon Arches, we got painted banners, we have all these things. So I'm like, okay, well, I know I can just knock them out that week, you know, get them done. Some of the things that you can't get done too far out in advance, but yeah, like we knocked out three banners, or I knocked out three banners just this week, and I mean, so it's just ebbs and flows, and I just didn't know, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 24:53

Like, with you always being in that like busyish flow of life, and then you and Cody find like a rhythm to that, and then when he goes into his busy season, is it like that's where you guys maybe lose connection or have that distance?

SPEAKER_00 25:11

It's probably that, yes, but even like last night, for example, when he brought over that steak, Ben was home, and I said, Well, I was making the cake, but I also just couldn't leave because of that. And I said, I just have so much stuff to get done around here. And they were like, Oh, okay, haha, like whatever. And then I was just like, I'm gonna give you guys 25 minutes to find something to do around this house. Go do something. There's dishes, there's laundry, there's vacuum, there's mopping, there's all of these things. I said, You guys have 25 minutes. Cody's like, Well, I yeah, I need to get back and I'm busy. And I'm like, exactly my point. Like, you still expect me to get all of this stuff done. And so that's where top of your right, and so that's where we disconnect. And it's like, I can't drop the ball on those types of things because then you're not set up for success. I know that you could care less if the floor is mopped, like I know that, but I need that. Or I know that you could care less if the sink is full of dishes. I know you don't care. Right. I care because when that day comes around and when I wake up, I want to see a clean house because then it allows me to have a clean mind. You can just kind of start fresh and yeah, but I like uh one of the things that I'm like, when will I have time to do this? Was mowing. Yes. And Cody and I also just bought a new mower that because we used as parents too for so long because we never really needed a riding lawn mower until we moved on to the farm last year. And so we bought a lot riding lawn mower, and my brother had the day off, and I said, All right, you're mowing. He's never freaking mowed on a riding lawn mower a day in his life. But I am telling you, like the smile the smile on his face was priceless.

SPEAKER_02 27:11

And it's how long does it take to mow your yard? Like a couple hours?

SPEAKER_00 27:15

About two hours for where where like we outline because it's a fairly large area, and there's not a lot of unless you're in the backyard where you have to like mow around some peony bushes or you know, lilac bushes and that type of stuff. But it was just like, I'm not gonna have two hours, just I'll have two hours, but it's nine o'clock at night and you can't mow in that.

unknown 27:37

Right.

SPEAKER_00 27:38

And so there's that, and just moving cows is a lot too, because then you have to get the water trenched and all of that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

So it's like just always something.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

Yeah, and so I'm hopeful that now that the cows are moved, planting is done. Yes, we have to plant down at our place, but hopefully we'll it's not nearly the go go go as it is up here. And so I'm it's still of importance though. Yeah, I'm just getting to the point where I'm like, okay, yep. I just hit put your head down, hammer through it, get it done, and we'll be okay.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

That's kind of how I get through the busy season, though.

SPEAKER_00 28:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

Like, just you just gotta do it.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

You look forward to those.

SPEAKER_02 28:23

You know, I I look forward to busy season. I do. I like the especially harvest. Yeah. It looks different with kids. I don't get as excited because my role looks a lot different than it used to. Not that I don't enjoy it, but it just is very different. But still, yeah, just when you get into like the hustle and bustle of it, it's like, okay, let's just put our heads down and we're just gonna grind until we're done.

SPEAKER_00 28:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

Because this two shall end. But um I'm actually gonna pause this and we're gonna roll this into a part two because that brings me to my thoughts as far as like how Tyler and I connect as spouses and a big argument that we always have during plaintiff season. So we'll see you guys next time. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

See you next time.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

They say a farmer's work is never done. Well, neither is ours. Come back next week for a new episode of Life Between the Rows.