Back when we were still dating the wife would actually help unload hay, but since then she's had an AICD implanted November of 2008, then almost two years later she had her third open heart surgery at St. Vincents in Indianapolis. She doesn't work as she has brain damage from 2008 when her heart into A fib and she suffered from hypoxia, mostly short term memory problems but she also has problems with fine motor control, as in I have to thread a needle for her. All three surgeries were to correct problems from being born with
Tetralogy of Fallot. She still helps with wood cutting when the weather permits, too warm, too cold or too humid and she has a hard time breathing. Unfortunately though from her heart defects no little git woods around to help either. She normally does pretty good as long as she isn't tired or stressed, a few times though she's had to turn the GPS on in her Jeep to get home as the way home totally escaped her from where she was at. Every once in awhile as well may have to use a description of a place instead of the name if I want her to come and pick me up from a field that we rent. Instead of a name may have to use something like "the guy around the corner from the log cabin that had the pony for his grandkids" then she can remember how to get there.
Most other stuff around the house has a place it always goes back to, period. That way she can find stuff without getting flustered. If we do rearrange anything we do it during the winter or a rainy spell so I'm around to help her find it till she gets used to the new location. I.E. Keys
always go in the candy dish by the thermostat, etc.
This last fall I had a bunch of ashes dropped that were dying from the ash borer (thank you China) but it was too wet to get the whole tree out so we'd take the Polaris Ranger out and cut the tops up, 2 or 3 loads a day and shortly you have a pretty good stack of wood, heated the house in November and December this way pretty much.
She still takes care of any orphan calves we might have but usually doesn't have to add wood to the boiler as I'm home enough that I can take care of it. She also takes care of the weeding around the house, the landscaping and garden weather permitting.
I still owe her a lot though, hard to find a good woman that is willing to not only put up with the crazy hours a farmer may work but also the restrictions on social events due to planting, harvesting or haymaking. Really hard to find a good woman that not only puts up with a farmer but also understands about yields, prices or both being down so we can't afford this or that just yet. If it wasn't for my sweetie I wouldn't have been to England three times now, and France and Scotland once. She's an Airforce brat after all, her dad had 168 combat/intelligence missions in Vietnam then was stationed in England before being discharged which is where he met her mother.
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