Hay Day

Another haying season has come and gone. For the past 12 years we've reliably gotten our hay from my friend Jessica's aunt. Started out as small square bales and a few years ago we made the jump to large round bales. Then early this year she sold off her land so we knew we'd be searching for a new hay farmer. It didn't help that this seasons hay was scarce with the drought conditions in early spring. I resorted to craigslist after calling everyone on my hay contacts. We found a guy selling giant 1100 pound bales for $75 a bale. We've been buying 800 pound bales in the past years for $25 each so sticker shock was high this year. But the farmer loaded for us so we didn't have to haul out our skid steer into the field like years past which was nice. We only had four trips to the field and it was a nice cool day instead of the normal 105 degrees (and Sean got the air conditioner fixed in the truck! Yay!).

The dump trailer was awesome and we just rolled them off.



The hay is always a hit with the kids. :)