Hauling Hay
Day three of hauling hay. I’m getting 90 bales at a time. Loading AND unloading them all by myself. I’m getting some serious strength training in. Lost a few pounds, too. My jeans are getting rather loose. When I’m all done, I’ll have 810 bales of hay, 30 tons worth. That’s a lot! It should last clear till next years’ hay season. I won’t have to buy hay in April anymore.
It’s been hot and dry for a few days now. Everything is drying up pretty fast. I’m watering things every day, and barely keeping up with it.
We have a young buck deer that has moved in here. He sleeps down by the trailer, in fact he has a bed under the plow that is leaning up against the tree down at the bottom of our driveway. He also has a bed underneath the plywood walls we have leaning up against another tree. He’s got little stubs for antlers coming in. One side is smaller than the other, I’m thinking he might have a bit of a deformity there. I’ll have to keep an eye on it as the antlers grow out.
I am enjoying eating the strawberries that are ripening in the garden. One thing about living at this elevation, our food ripens about 3 weeks behind the valley. So we are eating fresh berries when down in the valley, it’s all over for this year. The weeds are almost winning in the garden. I’m keeping them just barely under control in some of the beds, others are just full of weeds. But, I can’t keep up with everything by myself, so I do what I can. The peas should be ready to start harvesting any day now. I can hardly wait. They are one of my favorite vegetables. Creamed peas and new potatoes are one of my favorite dishes.
Well, I’d better go out and unload the hay. I’m going to get a break for a few days now, till someone comes along and buys the hay that is in front of my hay at the place where I’m getting it from. There is one load left, and then I wait till the second cutting to get the rest of it. So that will work out good. Then I can get other things done, too.
More as it happens…..
