January 2017

January as usual is mainly focused on the hay. Has it grown? How many bales might we get? Will it rain? When will we get it cut? And so on.................
It doesn't take much memory recall to make me remember 2016 season as it was wet all Summer and the hay crop boomed... It was a bumper crop state wide.
We had ours cut................and then it rained and rained and rained.............. I rang our hay man and asked him how much rain could cut hay cope with and he said about 10ml.....We had 17 ml overnight and it then rained all day..........l can't remember the exact amount but it was over 20ml that came down on our precious harvest.
HOWEVER..............The Rain Gods took pity on us that day and the next morning we sky rocketed  up to a dry 28 degrees , blue blue skies and a fresh gusty wind.
The hay got tetted up into rows and by a miracle it dried! Geoff and l went out constantly the next two days, kicking over wet clumps with our boots , trying to ensure that it all dried.
When Brandon  (our hay man) came back and it all went into windrows it didn't smell, it WAS a bit yellow but it baled beautifully and we were very happy and very lucky!

 Yep! He's happy!

 Always a few problems with baling!

Then in it comes..............from memory the last bale (this WAS the last bale) came in just as the rain started to fall yet again.....

Good reasons for smiles all round!