Living on a dairy farm you never know what is going to happen day to day. So you are usually prepared for the unexpected, but in march i was not ready for what was about to happen. I was watching my cousins with my mom when we got the call that there was a fire at the farm and they think that it is a barn. All that I can think is that this is it, no more cows, no more farm, there is no way my dad will be able to say in business. So we started calling everyone we could think of and then my dad finally calls and says "The garage is on fire I gotta go." With that we were a little relieved that it wasn't one of the barns that housed the cows. Then we started to think of all of the stuff we had in there, considering the garage was only seven years old we had just gotten it organized and stocked with all of the things we need to have on the farm. When we got home and saw all of the fire trucks lined up along the road and tons of vehicles, it just made you sick to your stomach. When we got to the driveway, where the garage once stood was a heap of metal and not much more. You could see the skeletons of the five tractors that were parked in there all had a story of their own including my dad and brothers tractor that they would pull at the fairs, and then the first tractor that my grand father had bought brand new that had been redone to look just like new. My grand father had just passed away in January so this by far was the worst part.
With the weeks of dealing with the insurance company and cleaning up the mess there us a garage up and standing in its place today, with hopes of re building 3 of the five tractors. This right here shows that when something comes up you have to deal with it and move on. My family has been through many things but this tested if we wanted to stay farming, wether or not it was worth doing things that we haven't done before. Live your life like there is no tomorrow because you never know you might not be here tomorrow.
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