Showing posts with label Haying day 1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haying day 1. Show all posts

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Busy Day

Because it's so HOT today, I'm sitting here blogging.
Yesterday, was a busy day.  Probably too busy. It all started with an EARLY morning ride.  The forest was already starting to have that crackly, dry feeling under foot. Even at that early hour you cold just tell it was going to be a "hot one".


On the way home we stopped at one of our local haunts and picked up a breakfast burrito.  The guys waited patiently in the trailer with their windows open because of the heat!!!  Maybe they thought the burritos were suppose to be for them?


We all cooled off when we got home by giving the two guys baths.  Toma gave me an early BD present of a flash water heater for bathing all the critters outside.  It's a nice way to just take the chill out of the really cold water.  Didn't take photo because Polly was already too curious about the propane tank and the little bit of noise that it was making. Long story short ... first bath with new water system was a success, and everybody ended up shiny and clean.  For a little while anyway!


Finally, in the heat of the afternoon we helped the folks from the Fresh Start Horse Rescue load up the hay we grew here.  They were very happy to get the hay, but I think we felt better giving it.  They merely paid for the baling cost.  It was a good deal for all.




Bales of good hay waiting in the heat.  And a neighbor checking it out.


Two trucks and two trailers later, away it went!!!
 It was a very hot day, but a good day. 
No rain yet, dry hay safely bucked and now in the barn 
just waiting to help feed a horse in need.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Making Hay

Day 1 - And the tractor finally arrives!
We have been waiting for Karla and her bigger tractor to arrive to cut and bale our pasture grass for over a month now (our little tractor just couldn't "cut it"!). She has been very busy and the weather has not been cooperating. Talk about making hay while the sun shines!! We are going to do the anti-rain dance for the next 3-4 days in hopes that we can get "all this grass" dried and baled. Welcome to the world of keeping your fingers crossed and hoping for warm, dry weather.
Here are a few photos of our first experience with putting up our own hay....

Me or the field scarecrow...take your pick.
See how tall the grass is....


The grass is several weeks past its prime
and has gone to seed already,
but we'll take what we can get.

We took the electric fence down
to make room for the bigger tractor
to fit through to the back pasture.

Finally Karla and her tractor arrive....
20 days after her first estimate
thanks to the Colorado Monsoon rains.


Let the cutting begin!

Isn't it beautiful...
all that nice GREEN cut grass...
soon to be hay.

And now we wait
and hope for warm, dry weather.

AND we're doing the anti-rain dance here in Southwest Colorado!