This was from about a month ago when we collected hay as mulch for our garden, which is different from the time when we collected manure for our garden. The hay was a lot lighter to shovel onto the trailer, but in both instances it was important to stay upwind. Otherwise debris would get in your eyes or it could be a bit stinky.
We have wonderful neighbors around here who love to help each other when challenges, troubles, or projects come up, so we got permission from our neighbor to take the hay that his cows weren't eating anymore since they had peed on it. This is the same neighbor who used his tractor to bring bucket loads of dirt for our garden, which is now doing very well despite windy days and barns dropping on them and such.
Anyway, we took the intact hay bales as a photo op. I don't think we got any stunning family photos partly because JB was making faces half the time and Gloria wasn't her normal photogenic self since she got lots of sunscreen in her eyes and hair earlier that day. Apparently she and JB were putting sunscreen on their eyelids because they were going to go sleep in the sun...that was their story anyway... Instead I had to torture them with eyewash spray as they lay on their back on a towel and I pried their eyes open and attempted to wash them out. Gloria got the worst of it and as a result had puffy stingy eyes for the rest of the day and even fell asleep on the couch when I told her to go rest her eyes by closing them.
The kids had lots of fun climbing on the hay bales and we got good mulch for the strawberries and melon patch.
2 comments:
Looks like you're all just down home on the farm folk. Belongs in my "Country" magazine.
I love the picture of JB and EV!
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