Wednesday, June 20, 2012

hay.... it/'s that time of year...

 Must be the middle of June.. because the sounds of tractors and hay elevators seem to be everywhere. Truck are hooking up to wagons...
 And great loads of hay are heading into the barns... yup, it's that time of year... it's hay season. We had a very wet spring, rain seemed to come every few days, so the farmers were playing a "cat and mouse" game with knocking down the fields. Father waited a bit longer than some others, and I think his patience paid off...
 We are in a nice stretch of weather --- very summer like -- and perfect for making hay. We pulled our elevator down and had the loft all cleaned out and ready for next winter's supply.
Our hay comes in  in batches... the first load was Monday, a perfect day... a little overcast, cool.. nice breeze. But today's load... ugghhh... HOT... temps in the 90's, humid.. not the day that you really want to be in the middle of a field picking up bales. But, it comes with the terrority, and goes along with .. make hay while the sunshines...
We certainly aren';t the only ones bring' in the hay. Barns all over town are open and hay elevators are doing their jobs...

 Every job needs a supervisor. Abbie was quite interested watching the bales come up into the loft. She kept telling me.."good job baby... that looks nice".....


Satisfied that the job was done well...
Course, there's no better way to end a day of hot hard work... then a treat of ice cream!!! Summer, it's officially here.....

1 comment:

Alex said...

we were out there slogging bales today too! What fun- we got our first load sunday and the weather was so much nicer then!! one more load and we will be done! Yipee