Working with My Goat Farmer

Bear and Poppit

This is Bear. My beloved hubs, best friend, and Kalahari Goat Farmer.

He makes me laugh every single day. 🙂

goat farmer with roll of fencing

During the school year he is a Special Ed teacher at a nearby high school while I manage the farm and run my food/travel/lifestyle writing and photography business over at Rambling Tart.

But on weekends and during the holidays he runs the farm with me and tackles all the two-person jobs around the place.

I love it. 🙂

While I’ve learned that I’m much stronger than I ever thought possible as I’ve bucked bales, hoisted pregnant goats, and done fencing all by myself, there are still things that are WAY easier with a second person.

Like hauling exceedingly heavy rolls of fencing from one paddock to another. 🙂

Last weekend Bear got out our beloved red Massey-Ferguson tractor and loaded one hefty roll of fencing wire after another onto a trailer.

goat farmer with fencing

I was no help whatsoever for I was bustling about taking pictures of him at work. 🙂

Queensland goat farmer

He grinned and shook his head in amusement when I asked for a quick pic of the two of us decked out in our very best farm finery, but obliged. 🙂 He’s a good egg that way.

Then I hopped on back of the tractor, held on for dear life, and we were off!

Queensland goat farmersAs I told you a few weeks back, a friend of ours is grazing cattle on the back of our property, and in exchange is fencing a new paddock for our goats to feed in. (Yay!!)

Bear thought it would be nice to carry the fencing out to him instead of making him troop back and forth from the field to the house for equipment, so we puttered along in the tractor, hopping off to dump rolls of wire at varying intervals.

(See that wooden carry-all right behind the tractor? That’s my perch. 🙂 I manage not to fall off as we jostle over bumps by hanging on to the chains dangling above.)

farmer on red tractor

I may have gotten distracted a time or two by the great swaths of daisies bobbing cheerily in the wind.

field of daisies

This is my view from the tractor when Bear is off hauling something or other.

red tractor in field

Apparently we made a bit of a racket, for the locals came out to see what the ruckus was all about.

cows looking over fence

And then decided to follow us. 🙂

cows walking in a line

It was a gorgeous day of warm sunshine and cool Spring winds, wonderful for tractor rides and farm projects.

Queensland orange wild flowers

What is your favorite project to work on with your partner or best friend? 🙂