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The Field is Empty! Its done...

7/9/2013

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Aching old bones crawled out of bed yesterday morning…..bright smiling faces appeared from the WWOOFER headquarters downstairs. In the field, the remaining hay bales lay like corpses awaiting retrieval and in the barn the 600 bales already collected are already filling every corner with the sweet smell of newly cut grass. The girls, Anna and Katie were excited to get to work, Greg and I, with several years of haying history behind us and muscles and bones already complaining were taking a little more persuading. With the sun shining, two smiling WWOOFERS and an over excited Bran in the back of the old Ford farm truck we headed off to finish the job started on Saturday evening, determined to prove that the girl team was just as efficient as Sunday’s boy team ( apologies to Heidi !!)…..and I may be ever so slightly…just a little biased but I reckon we were ! Those young ladies bucked bales like they had done it all their lives and I was so proud of them. As the last bale was squeezed into the last available slot, as dirt and sweat ran down their faces they were still smiling. Haying is tough work…but out there in the pasture surrounded by towering cedar trees in the sunshine I remember thinking….life is good.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this years haying experience…..we try to convince ourselves could have managed it ourselves ( it would have taken us 2 weeks and not been nearly as much fun though!) but wonder if we could book you in advance for next year…same time…same place….please ?

Time to go…irrigation to worry about now !

Take care, keep safe, M
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mum j says
7/9/2013 02:47:22 am

I am glad you are done. take a couple days 2 regroup.. loves 2 all. mum j.

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ratwhiskers
7/12/2013 10:28:32 pm

Sounds like it's "Beer n Burger" time to me!!

We're all bagged up 'ere, but it's another light crop again..... 28.8c on the gauge and Horsefly's as big as bullets.....

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