The weather improved today. There was brilliant sun and bright blue skies. It was only forty five but it felt terrific after the terrible weather earlier this week. The forecast looks good for the next few days. All our soybeans are combined but a lot of farmers still have a lot in the field. The good weather hopefully will last long enough for them to get their beans.

My fire department duties continued to take up a lot of time. I had to go to the county seat at Auburn to get a title for our new pumper. The woman at the Motor vehicles was very helpful but it still took a while to get all the forms figured out.

In the afternoon, we moved six big full size Angus cows from Verne's to our woods pasture. Two are mine and four are Verne's. These are fifteen hundred pound three and a half year old cows that are bred back AI to registered full size Angus for next springs calves. We thought we had them sold but the deal fell through. We had originally purchased them as virgin heifers and implanted Lowline embryos. They are nice cattle but too big to be running with the Lowlines. They are prime animals and we don't want to take them to the sale barn. We'll keep working on trying to sell them by private treaty.

I stopped by our local farm store to pick up a few items. It has only recently been opened by a young couple. As it continues to grow, we jokingly call it the Walmart of farm stores. It's nice to be able to buy locally. It's also a welding shop so we see our neighbors there getting things fixed up.

We finished up our chores and continued to feed baleage. The animals all like it and they are doing well on it.