Monday, January 3, 2011

Make Hay While the Sun Shines!

Summer has begun and we arrived home from our break in TeAnau to find our 'neighbour' Greg Poole from down the road was here, cutting the hay in the big shed paddock and his father-in-law was gathering it up with the tractor ready for baling.   
Brian
 
Brent, Rodney, Brian, Megan

He returned a bit later to make the bales and Brian put the call out for Richard and Brent to come and help stack it in the shed.  So within ten minutes we had Richard and Megan and Jonas here to help, and Brent arrived with his trailer.

Megan and I each drove a vehicle with a trailer on it (she got to drive Brent's nice red car, while I was stuck with the 4WD).  Brent, Richard and then Rodney came over too, were loading the bales onto the trailers and Brian was over at the shed to stack the bales as they were unloaded.

Within the hour we had made, gathered and stacked about 180 bales - so we are all set for feeding the Brady Bunch in the winter to come - fantastic! And now we can see the two sheep in that paddock as the long grass is gone!

The calves are growing well though they are not talking to us at the moment - two days before Christmas we had the vet here to de-horn them and to castrate the two boys.  Not a pleasant experience but a necessary one. We were diligently ignored for the next two days, but it may be that a week of holiday has blurred their memories as Pippi did let me pat her tonight.