Today I got up close and personal with a hay wagon I got to buck hay with two youngsters will being driven around the hayfield pulled by a tractor. This was my first time bucking hay and I had fun. I have always wanted to buck hay and now I have, it is a lot of work lifting those bales and those kids did a fine job. I could only keep up with them for one wagon load they did the rest of the bales on their own and had a fine talk with one another while they worked. The lad was from my next door neighbor's farm who has seven children so they felt they could spare one for the afternoon. The young lady came from down the road her Father shares in my hay and she loves to work with her Dad in the fields. If this is the kind of youngster they are growing here things don't look to bad for the future.
The hay is now in the barn so I have about two tons of hay to get me through the winter and that should give me a few bales to sell to help pay for the grain I feed the goats now and then.'
It won't be long and it will be breeding time for the goats so we will have spring kids and fresh milk and cheese.
The hens have been doing well laying from six to ten eggs a day, that will decrease as the days get shorter, but we will always have some eggs as long as we have birds.
Yup, fall is coming on quick got to get things ready for winter before I know it I will be lighting the stoves and hauling wood again.
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You inspire me, Kay!!
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