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Beautiful Hay
I over slept this morning not getting up until 6:30 am. I really was just too tired from working yesterday then had a late night. I left for the walk early to have time to check out our bales.
They are beautiful. Large, nice and green, put up dry and fine stemmed. I think this is the very best hay we have ever had for a first cutting.
On our walk I pretended I wanted to take a picture of the ladies but really wanted to get one of those gorgeous bales in the shot.
we stopped and talked to Spark for a while then stopped when David came by and he told us about his awful day yesterday trying to get to Galesburg and back. I was a little late getting back to the house to make breakfast. Right after breakfast I went to the barn to start cleaning. Mark picked up Mackenson. They got the forks off and put the spear on so he could start moving bales. Mark loaded diesel fuel in the tractor and started moving bales. Mackenson weed wacked the round pen and outdoor arena. Mark used the tractor to just move the bales close to the barn. I was almost finished when Sarah asked if the dumpster had been emptied. It gets emptied on Friday so today was a good day to clean out the tack stall. I took the golf cart over to help Sarah. When I walked in the 3 girls were busy cleaning tack.
We found a sparkly pony halter in one of the tubs.
The perfect size for a pony and tomorrow we are going pony shopping so the girls will take the halter along. Hopefully we will come back with something WEARING the halter.
I went back to work to finish but stopped when I saw Mike burning scrap lumber.
I don't really need scrap lumber this winter. We won't have wood burners this winter so decided to just let it burn. Crew and Jackson were busy helping unload the trailer in Mike's barn, hauling boxes up to the second level. Crew and Jackson are 2nd cousins and work well together.
I took a short video below of the boxes going up.
I finished the barn at 1:30 pm and went over to mom's as Sarah was letting the girls swim after all that stall work. David had Elisabet there too.
I didn't stay, the bales needed to be stacked in the barn. There were 3 older bales that needed to be moved to the other side. Once those were moved I started moving the bales from Joan's field over to ours. I had finished and was bringing one back to stack when Mark arrived with the tractor to help. First though we needed to move the broken golf cart out of the way. Mark had it up on stilts well it was lifted so he could work on taking the tires apart. We finished putting the last bale in the barn at 5:30 pm. Valiant was given a bale then I quit working. I was covered with dust and bits of hay. The shower helped get rid of most of it but I still feel like there is more in my hair. I made a pizza for supper. Mike and Diane came over and we went for a short walk so I could show them the hay all nicely stacked in the barn. It really is beautiful!
