Whatta Week!

Farmer Mark, as we all know is obsessed with the weather (pretty much every farmer is because so much is dependent on the weather). He checks the weather in the morning with his coffee and every evening. If it looks like its going to be haying weather, he calls me every few hours to see if it has changed. SERIOUSLY!

Sunday it was determined that this was going to be a good week. We made the decision to mow all we had left. Roughly, 35 acres! Well, it helped that my nephew Jeremy called and offered to help & use some of his equipment in exchange for Mark helping with his roof. Amazingly, they accomplished both. Hay is all in the barn & roof is done. I think we were all a little nervous on Monday night when all the hay was down, his roof was open, and we knew rain was coming on Saturday. We were praying the weather was going to stay nice for the week.

Here's what it looked like for them, work on roof until dew was off, than work on hay till late afternoon, back on roof till dark.  What that met for me: chores both morning & night by myself, running Kira where she needed to be by myself  (big thanks to my favorite sis for making a SOS call to OV), running the house & everything/anything by myself. Then 5 hours of tedding on Wednesday , 5 hours of  raking on Thursday, 2 hours of raking on Friday = sunburned face and sore a** due to the fact the Grandpa tractor has zero padding! K1 was a huge help on Friday by running the petting barn  ( we had 2 preschool field trips that day!)& helping  me to unload hay while Andy & Jeremy stacked.  Phew! Mission accomplished!

What's next? Now, that haying is DONE! Firewood for our house & sugaring. We have 95% of our wood for the winter cut & split, we just need to bring it all in. We have about 1 %  of sugar wood done and that was what we did last week. A friend of mine that is a Farmer once said every fall she thinks she has enough hay & firewood, than in January she starts worrying that there's not enough of either. So True!

We continue....Livin the dream!

Notice, how appropriate Mark's shirt is.

P.S. We still have meat shares available and mark your calendar for Fall Fun Day on October 12th!