It will take me weeks to catch up on all of my blog posts that I want to complete from the summer and this fall. Thought I would start with the wonderful hay season we had this summer. I don’t help much with the hay production but I do make sure there’s plenty of refreshment for my two hard workers, my hubby, Eddie and our daughter, Heather.
Eddie decides what fields are cut down first and does the cutting with the haybine and the baling with a round baler. Sometimes, we do square bales but later in the summer as a second cutting of the crop. Our hayfields have orchard grass, red clover and timothy. This summer we had bumper crops and more hay was baled than ever before due to the wonderful spring and summer rains.

We have a large Massey Ferguson tractor and by looking at the back wheels you can tell how high the grass was.

The season left us with over 800 bales this year. I just hope we won’t need to use it all because that will mean a “winter monster”!
I did get to drive the big truck when it was time to move it all off the fields and that took quite a few trips in several days.
Eddie would have moved all of it by himself if I had not been retired and home to help! I’m starting to feel useful again on the farm.