Electric Milker...

Wow..yesterday and today have been really busy! Most of yesterday, Al and I were trying to figure out the milker, putting it together, talking with Willie(the lady I bought it from)on the phone and I didn't sleep good at all last night..might have gotten a couple of hours of sleep. It was weird, I was tired but couldn't sleep. Well, this morning I was up early and out milking by hand and then Al and I had to go to his eye appt.(yikes! And he's been driving me around, he can't see very well!)then we came back home and got busy setting things up in the barn. At this point I was getting rather excited, I was so grateful and thankful to God for my husband...he is just AWESOME! He didn't really set it up the way I had originally wanted but I decided to let him make those decisions and I would work with it..even if I didn't like it too much..guess what? I LOVED it!! He did a perfect job! Ok..so then we came back down to the house and I got the rest of the milker and other stuff I would need for milking. We went up at 4:00 and I was back in the house with milk in hand by 6, which I thought was AWESOME for using the milker for the first time.
I have to tell you, I feel so blessed to have Abbey, she was an absolute perfectly behaved young lady! She seemed not to mind any of it at all!! We had a few problems with the pressure and stuff only to find out it was operator error..lol! It will take me a while to get used to this new way of doing things but I have to say..I could not have asked for a better outcome for ours and Abbey's first time. I got twice the amount of milk but she must be holding out on me because I was shocked it was over so quick and I only got a gallon...Willie says that she will eventually let down when she hears the machine running but I gotta tell you..overall, it was really neat! Watching the milk come out of the milker like that..wow! To know that we had put it together and to see it work(after a problem of operator error here and there..hee hee!)it was really neat! Ok I am very sore and tired, I will try to get some pics up soon. It has just been so icky and muddy, you just want to get it done and get out of that slop! Ok..more later...God Bless!