Unexpected Visitors

Yesterday.






I hope they made it home before the rain. Their big brown horse would have had to do some serious trotting to get it done, but they only live a couple of miles up the road. First time they have stopped here.

Old fashioned horse drawn hay loader

They were interested in this...and in getting the boss to mow some hay on a neighboring farm. He can't do it for them though. We used to take that hay ourselves on shares and gave it up because the hills are so steep we were wrecking machinery on them every year. When you drive the raking tractor over the edge of the hill and you can't see the bucket loader on it in front of you, well, that is steep. Too darned steep. Different farmers have taken the hay from the out of town folks who own it, but most of them only do it for a few years before they decide it isn't worth it.