Sunday, August 26, 2007

HAY!...almost

It's been way too long since the hay was cut...somehow we didn't connect with our hay guy in the spring, and so we waited for him all summer to no avail. We were down to four bales, and that's a pitiful situation. Can't mulch much of anything with just four bales...
So we finally started searching around for someone else, anyone at all to please please cut our field and bale the hay. One problem we have is that we use the old-fashioned square bales (which are actually rectangles) and not very many people bale those anymore. Most hay is used for cows, and folks just have those giant round bales made, and leave one for the cows to munch on. The giant bales are of no use to us...can't haul em around for mulching. So we finally found a guy (I think it was four guys) to cut the hay and that was yesterday, A truly beautiful sight. Then we waited for them to come back and 'fluff' it with the 'fork-thing' attachment on the back of their tractor. But they didn't show up to do that...hmmm....and then this morning we waited again. And we were worried. Because it was supposed to rain. And that would be bad. We haven't had rain all month, but you would know that when we finally have the hay cut we'd be threatened with rain. Well. Will made a phone call, and found out they don't plan to bale it until TUESDAY. (It's Sunday right now). Tuesday! And yep. It's raining. But it could all work out, you know. We're kind of counting on that. Not raining much, then stopping, then allowing the hay to dry. then baling, right?

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