Said And Done

It seems like a lot of my stories recently begin by saying this is not a typical year. Everything seems strange, weird or just a bit off. Critters are acting funky. The weather is not normal,  hay season is lasting a very long month rather than the ten days to two weeks it typically does. Even the firewood project is completely off the charts with the weekly orders more like middle of winter, high volume rather than a summertime slowdown. I’m not going to get into how it is all affecting the farm’s human critters but it is suffice to say we are all cranky to one degree or another and it is not unusual to see an odd outburst or downright fit on occasion. (Anybody else seeing this ?)

Plans are changing faster than the weather around here. For the last three weeks, someone has been saying or rather preaching that we are only going to do one portion of a field at a time and won’t start another field by mowing until we have every last bale in the field that we are working on safely stored in the barn. It seems that the tide has turned, or the moon changed to a different phase, perhaps Jupiter is no longer in retrograde or that marine air that has been plaguing us with dampness every other day has started to blow toward the sea instead of inland. I say this with fingers crossed, it looks like we may have a stretch of four days in a row of nice weather.

The field we are working on does not have all the bales picked up. It does not have all the rows baled. It does not even have all the rows raked. But last evening Mike mowed down the last field we have to do battle with for this year, the six acre field. This is always the heaviest, highest volume per acre field and the mowing proved that it is indeed thicker in stand than any of the other fields or pieces of fields.

For those of you who are waiting patiently for the totals of the field we are currently working on to see if your guess is the winner of total bales or the winner of Mike’s guess, you still have one more day to submit!

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