Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Haying!

As soon as we turned the calendar to July, the sun shone! We only had 5 acres of hay down at the time, but we were able to get a little over 100 bales/acre which is good.

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The Brockett's came over to help us unload so we were able to get all 5 1/2 wagons done in the afternoon. It was great fun!

Randy is such a funny dog! He loves to sit on the top bales watching us work and to ride on the wagons whenever he can.

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"This one's yours!"

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We all went down back to pick up the bales that missed the wagon.

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Ben loves to ride his bike down the bumpy back laneway.

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Hillary, having her first lesson on how to drive a tractor and lovin it!

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"Here comes!"
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Amadu, the farmer boy...

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and Adama, the country girl. =)

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Between wagons, Mommy had snacks and cold drinks all ready for us. The hit of the afternoon was ROOT BEER FLOATS!!

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"My cup overfloweth."
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Doesn't it look good!
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We have about 30 more acres of hay to do and tomorrow we are butchering our first batch of chickens for the year. So, here goes...

COMING SOON: Peter and Amy's wedding pictures from last year! Their anniversary was Monday, the 7th.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Whoo Hillary on the tractor!!! Way to go!!

Aww those pictures makes me miss doing hay!! It looked very fun although I'm sure it was hard work too!!

The Reynolds said...

Way to go Hillary!!!! Adama - you are the perfect "country girl" Amadu...you'll be in the drivers seat next! Thabeh, you looked like you were really having fun!

And to all the rest of you Darts and Brocketts.....

WE ARE SO JEALOUS!!!!!!!!

(Love ya all anyway)

The Reynolds said...

So Amadu, you ARE driving! Way to go....didn't see you driving the first time thru....

(and yes, we are still jealous!)

The Dart Family said...

Thanks, Reynolds family.=) The kids all did great even stacking in the hot hay mow with no breeze.
Hillary is looking forward to helping me ted or rake hay. Please pray. JUST KIDDING!! =) She is a good driver.

Anonymous said...

Glad it dried up so you'll could get that done! I guess we take turns because it is wet and green here.

Thanks for the four page letter!!!!