Well the morning started out cool with overcast skies. Of course we didn't see much of the early morning as we caught up on our sleep until 9 AM. Nancy cranked on the oven to take the morning chill away. After a cup of hot green tea for me and Nancy with her java we began the day with our quiet time then a lite breakfast.
I worked out side in the garden; mulching all the leaves I had put in the garden yesterday with my lawn mower, sowing some lettuce, cuke's and kale. I will take these new seedlings back to Florida when we leave in 2 weeks for my winter garden. We got a load of wash on the line about 11 AM then took off for our one and only hike of the day. We had a good work out and came back to have a lite lunch of fruit, celery and peanut butter.We had called Kimberley earlier about coming over to help them with getting their hay in the barn. They were unsure if the sun would be bright enough to dry the hay for baling. If you bale the hay before the sun drys it out the hay(tall grass) will mold and be unusable for consumption by horses. Eddie and Kimberley have 7 horses with a stallion.
While waiting to see if the sun light was enough to cure the hay I spread fertilizer on the back yard. Meanwhile I had cranked up the golf cart to carry the spreader and the fertilize out to the back yard and then it(Golf Cart) went dead. Nana, nothing when I tried to crank it, so we pushed it by hand back to the basement area where I tried to determine what was the problem. After hooking up the battery charger to the GC it still showed no life; so I drove the riding mower over and took its battery out and installed it into the GC. Presto the machine came to life and thus it became obvious the battery was dead and needed to be replaced. Meanwhile the batteries in the remote that turns the T.V. on and off has also gone belly up as well. On our trip to Wal-Mart on Friday we will pick up new batteries as well as a few groceries for our guests this week end. Hard to believe only 2 week ends to go before heading back to Florida.
Kimberley called and annouced Eddie was bailing hay at 6 PM. We had a quick dinner from frozen spaghetti sauce then headed out about 5:30. I wanted to get several trash cans full of Tommy droppings(manure) for my compost pile. That's what makes those huge earthworms so evident in my garden. We managed to fill up 3 big cans before we started loading hay. Eddie baled about 150 bales and Nancy, Al Dean and myself loaded them out of the field and onto a wagon. We then had to off load them and stack them in their barn. So that means you have to handle each bale( 40- 60 pounds) each at a minimum of 2 times. We stacked the last bale in the barn at 7:45 PM.
Well it felt good to put that last bale in the barn at nightfall. The heavy dew was starting to fall and you could feel it in the air. The temp had dropped to 55 and was falling fast. Kimberley loaded us up with some shelly beans(dried speckled lima beans) and frozen okra. Thanks again for the "Tommy droppings" and veggies and it was fun and nice to know you were helping friends you love.
Well will close for now missings all our family and especially Ava and Annsley.
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