Animals
With the help of neighbors and friends,
we stowed over 800 bales of hay.
A couple hours of raking and fluffing in the morning,
followed by the rest of the day stowing
what our neighbors Jim and Kathy baled for us.
Their son, Scott, helped us stack the hay
as well as Anna...who often helps us around the farm.
Team work....
and good equipment...
OMG!...yes it was that bad!
And no, my ankles are not that skinny....it is just a weird camera angle.
By the way, did you know that turkeys like showers?
They truly enjoyed being squirted during the heat of the afternoon....
- Hot, Hazy, Humid With A Chance Of Thunderstorms
We've reached the tipping point of summer...where the humidity and the temperature are both in the 90's. Evening thunderstorms drive moisture into the ground;which then ascends the next afternoon, hanging in the air like a heavy velvet curtain....
- In Need Of A Makeover!
I finished the weekend all shiny, clean and refreshed.... Why is it that by Monday night I looked a bit more like this?.... Why?It might have been due to the fact that I stowed about 120 bales of hay in the barnyesterday afternoon. Jim emptied the...
- Happy Anniversary
We finished our summer vacationing this past weekendat the Chesapeake Bay with friends and family.Kayaking, bicycling, and water skiing activities helped us to say goodbyeto our old friend summer.Hubbs tried his hand at water skiing, after almost 30 years...
- Please Send Rain!
We awoke yesterday (July 4th) to evidence that it had rained during the night. It has been incredibly hot and dry here for the past month,so any little bit of rain is a help! Our 4th of July was a stay-at-home day.We took delivery of 175 bales of beautiful...
- Fire!!
What a weekend!It was the weekend that will forever be known as "the weekend that Tin Lizzy (our 1953 Ford tractor) went up in smoke".as well as a patch of our hay field. Let me start at the beginning of the story.... We have had several weeks without...
Animals
Exhausted.
Filthy.
Dehydrated.
Bedraggled.
Satisfied.
That's me....
Oh, and this is me, too....
That's me....
Oh, and this is me, too....
After 10 hours work, yesterday in the 95 degree heat,
we successfully baled all of our hay
and stowed it in our barn and Becky's.
With the help of neighbors and friends,
we stowed over 800 bales of hay.
A couple hours of raking and fluffing in the morning,
what our neighbors Jim and Kathy baled for us.
Their son, Scott, helped us stack the hay
as well as Anna...who often helps us around the farm.
Team work....
and good equipment...
made the day go amazingly smoothly.
If you had told me ten years ago that I might look like this
at the end of the day....
And no, my ankles are not that skinny....it is just a weird camera angle.
By the way, did you know that turkeys like showers?
They truly enjoyed being squirted during the heat of the afternoon....
- Hot, Hazy, Humid With A Chance Of Thunderstorms
We've reached the tipping point of summer...where the humidity and the temperature are both in the 90's. Evening thunderstorms drive moisture into the ground;which then ascends the next afternoon, hanging in the air like a heavy velvet curtain....
- In Need Of A Makeover!
I finished the weekend all shiny, clean and refreshed.... Why is it that by Monday night I looked a bit more like this?.... Why?It might have been due to the fact that I stowed about 120 bales of hay in the barnyesterday afternoon. Jim emptied the...
- Happy Anniversary
We finished our summer vacationing this past weekendat the Chesapeake Bay with friends and family.Kayaking, bicycling, and water skiing activities helped us to say goodbyeto our old friend summer.Hubbs tried his hand at water skiing, after almost 30 years...
- Please Send Rain!
We awoke yesterday (July 4th) to evidence that it had rained during the night. It has been incredibly hot and dry here for the past month,so any little bit of rain is a help! Our 4th of July was a stay-at-home day.We took delivery of 175 bales of beautiful...
- Fire!!
What a weekend!It was the weekend that will forever be known as "the weekend that Tin Lizzy (our 1953 Ford tractor) went up in smoke".as well as a patch of our hay field. Let me start at the beginning of the story.... We have had several weeks without...