Remember Scottie?We don't usually work Sundays except for chores but yesterday the boss worked his fanny off, all by himself, finishing up a hay field because it was going to rain.
And then it didn't .
But he got some things cleaned up so they can start fresh today. The Sudan grass/sorghum is so wet they are mixing it half and half with dried out first cutting so they can get it in the bag. They are feeding a similar mix green chopped to the cows and they seem to like it pretty well. The kids worked for my bro then went to the fair to the tractor pull. Mark finished up seventh I guess.
Today the sun is coming up in a blaze of red and it is humid enough to wring a glass of water out of a handful of air. Off to the barn then the usual round of garden, kitchen and bookkeeping. Have a good one.
I was walking over to take my Sunday graffiti pics and heard a loud rustling in the creek bed between the farms. ANOTHER woodchuck carting plastic. I have no idea where he found it...but must be a new style in marmot housing. 
Isn't that always how it goes? Rush, rush, rush... and nuttin'... only the fact that you got something done and have to wait another week for some much deserved R&R...
ReplyDeleteWe've been enjoying the same humidity here... today we are gonna kick it up a notch... 99 with heat index of 107... lord only knows what the humidity will be today... ugh
I poured on Saturday so we DIDN'T have to be busy to beat it on Sunday. Those crazy chucks are just recycling;)
ReplyDeleteSar, I always try to discourage him from working on Sunday because every single time he does we have a major breakdown on Monday. This time it was a rear wheel bearing on the 4430. They are estimating eight hundred bucks....yay! Sorry about your weather. That is rough.
ReplyDeleteLinda, just spitting a little here, but a major breakdown, see above, has everything ground to a halt.
We've been having rain here for the last two weeks and at least another week of rain predicted. It smelled like mold and mildew this morning as we headed out around 5:30 to change the water.
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Linda, that is just awful! The guys were just getting into baling having chopped three bags of baleage...first the 4430 blew a wheel seal and bearing. Then the downpours arrived.
ReplyDeleteMost of us just don't appreciate the vagaries of weather, the crankiness and expense of machinery, the uncertainty of regulatory demands . . . and ultimately the inexorable equation of the cost of doing business versus income in this vital American industry.
ReplyDeleteIf you get a moment TC - what does this mean "so they can get it in the bag" ?
Cathy, I have read that most people never or almost never look up at the sky...we look at it constantly, all day every day, trying to see what the weather is going to do to us or for us. lol
ReplyDeleteIf you look back at the graffiti pics you will see the long, white, "ag bag". This is a 200-foot long air tight plastic tube in which we ensile feed for the cows. It is compacted into the bag by a huge machine called an ag bagger. Basically it is a horizontal temporary silo. We took our conventional silos down a few years ago when the concrete became fragile.