It has been hay week here on the farm!
Mike has been moaning and groaning about all the rain without a stretch of sunny weather because he had hay that needed harvesting. We are grateful for the rain and cooler temperatures that May gave us but he also wanted to get the hay out of the field.
Well, on Saturday, the rainy weather gave way to hot, hot, hot temperatures.
As I pulled out of the driveway to go to our eldest grandson's baseball tournament, Mike was beginning to cut the hay.
When I returned on Sunday morning, the field with the cut hay is what greeted me.
Mike had already fluffed the hay with the tedder. That process just sort of picks up the hay and allows air to help to dry it out. He was beginning to rake the hay into windrows to prepare it for baling.
Then, for the past couple of days he has been baling the hay. It yielded fifty-plus bales and one hot, sweaty, dirty guy.
Next, Mike and Stephen will haul the rolls to the barn and get it all stored away. It will make good winter feed for the livestock - ours and son, Stephen's. There will be a day or two of rest and hay will will come again later in the summer when the second cutting is ready for harvest.
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