A November Day On The Farm

Perhaps your remember this photo which I posted on November 11 where I wondered what that little red "locomotive," which I'd seen on County Route 54, really was. I never got an answer until a few weeks later when.................

 This team of massive horses went by pulling it:

I stood by the side of the road with my camera and the driver stopped to chat and give his hard working horses a rest. They were pulling not one, but three wagons, loaded with firewood:

 And a few moments later he was on his way once again:

 With all three wagons in tow:

 And right outside my house, they were belatedly (because we'd had so much rain) harvesting corn and dumping it into big trucks to be hauled away:

 But in the process, they left lots of corn on the road. I shoveled up three buckets full and could have gotten much more if I'd had more containers. Both the cows and the chickens were quite happy to see corn in their feed bowls:

 And the chickens have taken over everything, helping themselves to the cattle's feed and tromping all over the barn. I spent a lot of time shooing them away:

 And the cattle were getting friendlier each day. They were also gaining weight at an amazing rate, drinking up to almost 300 gallons of water per day:

 Besides mending fences, clearing fields and tending livestock, I treated myself regularly to some locally raised, minimally processed honey:

 They use old jars and ask you to return them when you're finished with the honey. It's all self-service and on the honor system, although there's a lock on the cash box:

 And I have a jar of honey on my kitchen counter at all times: