Connie
Posted : 7/5/2017 1:52:27 AM
After feed, I talked Cal into helping me get the gaited saddle over to the barn..along with a girth, the bridle I had just rigged up and the camera. I bridled Whisper and, taken up all the way it is still a bit long but not too long. Put the saddle on her. It has drop billets and I used a 26" girth. it is a little too long, but maybe I can adjust the straps. It is okay but , I think next I will use the John Lyons. Anyhoo, I rode her around the barnyard and had a sweet little time with her.
We came in and ate. Then the phone rang. They were baling and had 300 on the ground already. We grabbed our stuff (forgot water) and hooked the truck to the trailer and off we went. We got a load on the trailer and a small load on the truck. I am guesstimating we got about 125 bales home. Will count them when we put them in the barn tomorrow.. Not sure what Tom will charge us for the equipment use but it is nice hay, the bales are decent sized and it is dry. It is way better than I thought it would be. Whisper approved of the handful I gave her.
Cal worked in the yard all day and then this tonight. He is exhausted. He has blood work tomorrow. Dr. appointment next week. Interested in seeing what his blood work shows. Been working on his cholesterol, and trying to get him to comply with a sugar free diet....I am better at not eating the stuff than he is.
Before I came in, I moved the feed we had stored by the hay...two bags had holes apparently rodents found it. Now I have to find a place for it. Then I moved the round bale where the feed was..that makes better use of the space and we can bring the square bales in tomorrow. I need to find a way to make better use of space in the barn...starting with moving things Cal stores in there over to the shed down the side that was supposed to be the hay shed...I gave up on that being my space a long time ago..dirt floor and even with pallets the bottom bales are ruined.
Hope everyone had a great holiday. I hear booms outside so someone around here has fireworks.