Mach said:

:itchyjustthinkingaboutit: and jt isn't home to help
hope you get good replenishing rains this fall and winter then... drought sucks

often times when i go into the loft in the barn i think about what a lot of work it was for them to put up the hay before balers... the remnants of the hay sling still hang from the roof.

will hope for a nice cool breeze for you tomorrow

Mach said:

I'm going back to visit my parents this week--they live on a farm. I don't know what the going rate for hay is there, but my dad grows his own alfalfa and then hires someone to bale it (b/c he doesn't own the proper machinery) into round bales. He feeds the hay to the cattle during the winter. (Along with feed he grinds from field corn in the fall.)

When I was in junior high he would hire the high school aged guys who I though were sooo cute to help put the straw bales in the barn during the summer. I would make brownies, lemonade, sandwiches, etc. any little stupid thing I could think of to take out to the hot, sweaty, shirtless high school guys who were helping him.