Hay Mower Came

Monday, July 18, 2022

Hello friends,

              Just enduring the summer right now.  I sure wish we would have gotten a little rain to tide us over through the coming heat stretch.  Man, the forecast is daunting.  I know it’s summer in Kansas, and of course it’s worse in Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, but it sure is hard to keep the garden alive in this weather.  We spend a lot of time watering with the pond water system.  Thankfully we don’t have to use rural water and pay for it.

              The hay mower came today and efficiently cut the pastures in lane 5, 8 – 10, and 12.  That’s step one in putting up our hay.  Not a day too soon either!  If we would have had to wait longer, the grass may have totally lost its nutritional value in the dry heat.  As it is now, it is cut and will cure in the hot sun, then they will bale it and preserve it for the future.  There are three things we always need to get done before winter, cut hay, collect firewood,  and mow weeds in the pastures.  That firewood seems ridiculous right now, but winter will come, and we will need wood.