People often talk of the summer of 1976. I can remember it even though I was only 12.
To me this year's got to be the best Spring and Summer I have ever known.
Yesterday my friend and former work colleague text me and asked if I would go for a spin and collect 50 bales of hay with him.
I hadn't anything planned so I arranged for him to collect me and we drove to a farm near Baltimore and drove into a field full of small square bales of hay:
We drove around the field and loaded the trailer with the winter feed. Making hay is a sure sign that it won't be long to Christmas.
The rain returns tomorrow and the grass will grow again. Such is the circle of life and our seasons.
That was a pleasant way to spend a sunny day. Making hay while the sun shines!
ReplyDeleteI really think that the closer one gets to the pulse of the earth, the easier it is to stomach the chaos of our world. The earth has seen man's foolishness play out over and over and over again, and yet, when it is done, the earth continues steadily on.
ReplyDeleteTrue JayCee. It was the saving of hay that allowed the Romans to move about their with feed for their horses even in winter. It's been glorious.
ReplyDeleteI can remember 76 in London. Traffic lights stopping, tar melting on the roads, working in an office with no aircon and the windows didn't open.
ReplyDeleteMakes me feel like a dinosaur now.
Perfect weather for haymaking. That reminds me of summers in rural nz
You write very wise words Debby. It's the humans who spotted the planet. Not all of them mind. Blessed are the hay makers who provide forage for the farm animals in winter.
ReplyDeleteWe've had tar melting on the Irish boreens Linda this year. I went in Lidl today and the air con was on. It was bliss. Why do Irish and English houses not have air con? Hay making makes me think of Ireland holidays piking loose hay and drinking bottles of cold tea.
ReplyDeleteYou got rain tomorrow, low temperatures here next week, but no rain. I love to see the oblong bales in a field, so many memories, we used to build them into a small building with 3 walls, a perfect den.
ReplyDeleteYou have so many great rural memories Marlene. You should write a book. Yes soft rain for about a week from tomorrow. A good chance for the farmers to get out the bag manure (fertilizer) and get the grass growing again after the first crops of silage and hay. Some of those square hay bales are very heavy in dewy fields. What a splendid year.
ReplyDeleteHay fever season, for some of us ... Achoo! ;)
ReplyDeleteOh dear. J use to get Kenalog injections for her hay fever. I usually end up coughing after hay or when I have been strimming all day.
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