We were blessed with some great weather last week and were able, with the help of wonderful neighbors and family members, to put up over three hundred bales of hay. That's about a fourth of it. The temps were in the 80's (I know. Who ever heard of doing hay in anything other than high 90's or up?) with much lower humidity and no rain in the forecast. A wonderful blessing. If you're new to doing hay you might not realize that the weather has everything to do with it. You go through and cut it (we have grass and red clover), then you let it dry. When it is dry enough, you rake it and then bale it. The worst thing that can happen is to have it rain. High humidity can be a challenge, also. If it rains and gets it wet you could lose all of it. Now you know where the saying "you have to make hay while the sun shines" came from. If you don't have any hay your animals won't have anything to eat in the winter when the grass is dormant. If you bale wet hay it will start to decompose and compost and catch on fire. If your hay is in a barn you lose your barn as well as the stacked hay and anything else in there! That's part of the science of doing hay.
If you scroll down you'll see the two pictures of garage sale finds that I tried to post the other day. A cute painted box to plant flowers in and the jar for fresh flowers. Some other treasures were two pairs of bib overalls in good shape for a dollar a pair, a handmade old-fashioned full-length dress for fifty cents, a set of blue enamelware dishes still in the package for two dollars, a cast iron bell, and something I was very excited about; a box of square nails for twenty-five cents. We don't go garage-saling very often but the small town we live near was having a community-wide garage sale weekend. We had fun and found some great stuff!
There are many treasures in life if we will take the time to notice them. I hope you're finding lots of them!
Nancy
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