Buckets of fun on the farm

Red Hill General Store was very generous to supply the Real Farmwives of America & Friends with some buckets to try out! (Check out the rest of the girls today to see what they did with their buckets on the farm, too.)

On Monday, I shared with you the many uses I found for a 4-quart galvanized bucket in our Home and Garden. Today, I’ll tell you about using the bucket on the Farm!

We have a pretty small farm here at the house. We raise cattle (no more than 10 cows on the pastures at our house) and hay, so our farm is usually pretty low-maintenance. Lucky for me!

But there are some things that I used my 4 quart galvanized bucket for around the farm.

The handle was just perfect for hanging over the water hydrant to fill.

Doesn’t that look refreshing on a hot hot summer day?

I used the bucket to water the tulip poplar tree we transplanted…

And our transplanted pecan tree.

I also used it to fill up the dogs’ water bowls. Hubby Doc likes to use a 5-gallon bucket for this, but that is just too heavy for me to carry very far. This 4-quart works just perfect!

Speaking of 5-gallon buckets, this is what we feed our calves every day (there are seven calves this year). They get a 5-gallon bucket full of creep feed to share.

I wasn’t going to make the trip from the feed storage out to the creep feeder that many times, but I did use the little bucket as a scoop to fill the big bucket!

Then the big bucket into the creep feeder for the little guys. What is a creep feeder you may ask? Well, that is a post for another day…

We always seem to be in the middle of a construction project around here. Right now, we’re adding on to the barn, because it wasn’t big enough before. Or so I’m told.

With any construction project, there are always lots of little pieces that need to be kept together. Hubby Doc said he would rather use my galvanized bucket than this plastic pail. He gets a lot of used plastic coffee containers, but he doesn’t like them because they don’t have handles.

He mentioned stealing my bucket to keep greasy tractor parts in when he is doing maintenance… I may have to get him a bucket of his own…  

Like the bucket? The Real Farmwives of America & Friends are having a giveaway this week! Be sure to stop by and enter to win a Galvanized Embossed Tub from Red Hill General Store on the Real Farmwives’ blog. Also check out Red Hill General Store – they have lots of buckets, tubs, bottles, and so much more!!

Thanks, Red Hill, this bucket fits right in around my Farm!

While Red Hill General Store did provide me with a bucket to blog about for this post, the pictures, ideas, and opinions shared here are my own.

A bucket for every occasion

Okay, so it’s just one bucket. But it got quite a bit of use this week.

Red Hill General Store was very generous to supply the Real Farmwives of America & Friends with some buckets to try out! (Check out the rest of the girls today to see what they did with their buckets, too.)
I got a 4-quart galvanized bucket to play with. And let me say, it has already come in pretty handy, and I’ve got some more uses planned for it in the future!

Right after I got my bucket, I went away to a veterinary conference for a week. I asked Hubby Doc to use the bucket to corral the mail while I was gone. It’s just the perfect size!

I thought perhaps I could use this bucket as a cat dish, and then I wouldn’t have to worry about feeding the cats twice a day (you know, self-feeding).

No such luck. Leo (on the left with the white toes) and Pretzel (on the right with the giant mouth) went to town on the huge bucket of food.

And they would not share with Martin…


Or with Orleans. Poor Floof-Cat.

Okay, so scrap that idea. I will share that I made a giant mess trying to get the cat food back into the original bag. Cat food all over the floor. Whoops. Good thing I had four hungry cats around to help me clean it up!
My fish tank was looking a little low, so I used the bucket to top off the tank (after a thorough washing and rinsing, of course). Just the perfect size for this, too!


I may have accidentally poured water all over the floor while I was filling the fish tank. Note to self, next time, get someone else to take photos when I am dealing with running water in the house…

So I took my bucket outside to see what kind of trouble I could get in out in the garden.
Hmmm… These blackberries are not quite ripe yet. But when they are, this bucket will be the perfect size to pick them into! (And then I’ll be able to post about our famous homemade blackberry ice cream recipe…  yum!)

The tomato plants are also not quite ready. They have started to flower, but are far from putting on fruit. Hubby Doc likes to pick into a five-gallon bucket in the garden. Those get too heavy for me, so this 1-gallon bucket will be just right.


Um, did he really plant four rows of green beans? I might need another bucket…


On the way back inside, I stopped to pick a few lilies from my weedy flower beds.


And then I turned my bucket into a centerpiece for dinner with the girls before the True Blood season premiere!


If only I can get the cats to leave the flowers alone… (That is a long shot around here.)

Like the bucket? The Real Farmwives of America & Friends are having a giveaway this week! Be sure to stop by and enter to win a Galvanized Embossed Tub from Red Hill General Store on the Real Farmwives’ blog. Also check out Red Hill General Store – they have lots of buckets, tubs, bottles, and so much more!!
Thanks, Red Hill, this bucket fits right in around my Home & Garden!

While Red Hill General Store did provide me with a bucket to blog about for this post the pictures, ideas and opinions shared here are my own.