Untold Stories

There are a lot of jobs on a farm/ranch that you often don't think about, but they are nonetheless important to the operation.

One such job this past week was to clean out a tank in the corrals next to my house. I'm not sure the last time it had been cleaned out.

After gagging several times because of the wonderful smells (just think of rotten eggs...plural), our high school worker came up with a solution that sort of worked for him. My only advice was that if he threw up, it was supposed to be outside the tank because I was not cleaning it up ;-) He chose to think of the "muck" as oil. Sure didn't smell like it, but when you know that the stuff splashing up and hitting you in the face contains many things including cow poop, oil seems like a great alternative.

Never a good sign when your shovel looks like this afterwards. The tank above might not look that clean, but trust me, it is MUCH better. We will allow it to dry out and possibly see if we can clean it some more before we fill it up with water again.

It might not be glorious, but it is a necessary job that needed done. That pretty much sums up the life of a farmer/rancher.