As I continue doing my things around here, the grandkids, the garden, the house, and a craft or two… the guys are still working. We try to take Sundays off, but sometimes it’s only half a day. Everyone irrigates. Irrigation continues morning and evening, especially with this stifling heat. Someone usually checks on cows, hauling…
Tag: hay
Not My Thing
I went with Vernon the other night to irrigate. While I normally avoid irrigating, we were on our way to pay a visit to my sister and had to irrigate on the way. Since the field had been hayed, I thought my chances were pretty good to avoid the grass pollen that makes me so…
Hay
While I mow lawn and work in my garden, the guys are busy putting up hay. They started in the fields around my house, which is always very appreciated due to my grass allergies. I’ve often wished I could go somewhere for the month of June and return after the pollen has blown away… which…
Scenes from a Tractor – Video
Yesterday you saw “Scenes from the Calving Shed”, now we’ve moved out to feed some heifers, baby calves, and our bulls. If you recall, the guys have built two big bale feeders over the past few years, Vernon uses one, Daniel the other. Now that we’ve moved heifers and their new calves to my place,…
Wordless Wednesday – “Native Hay”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this photo, go HERE.
Back In Business
Dog-gone rocks! Vernon and the boys are trying to hay… despite afternoon rain showers that seem to target each field as it’s cut. The heat wave we’ve had the past week or so does dry the hay fast… so Vernon zooms and makes hay while that sun shines… Unfortunately, the baler flung a rock into…
Round and Round
While today was cold and windy and it even tried to snow… yesterday was sweet! Vernon asked if I’d like to drag fields with the pickup… and so I did. Settled with my audiobook, water bottle, and trusty sidekick… I set to work. Dragging fields is done with a simple metal toothed piece of equipment…
#TBT: Keep on Haying
As long as you can grow it, dry it, and bale or stack it… keep on! We are… just differently than they did back when. No dates. For those of you interested in how this worked, I’ve included a link to a YouTube video similar to what these family photos are of.
#TBT: Making Hay
Making hay while the sun shines. No date.
I Take Photos
Someone waved that magic wand and just like that, we’ve turned from cowboys into farmers! It seems to happen that fast to me, of course, I’m not the one cleaning ditch or prepping the discbine or baler… I’m not much help when it comes to farming, though in the Way Back Time, I would do…
#TBT: A Load
This is quite the load of hay… No date.
While the Sun Shines
The guys have been working long days… well, as best they can in between rain showers… putting up hay. You know the old adage, “Make hay while the sun shines”? Sun is essential for drying fresh cut hay. If you bale hay too wet, it can start to decompose, yes, like in a compost pile,…