A couple of months ago we plowed over ground and planted alfalfa for the hay. But you just don’t get the hay right away. What happens is that you mix in some oats and grass seed so that you can get a good cover to let the hay grow. So tonight Daryl cut the oats off the field.
Daryl cutting the crop
I haven’t had a chance to ask him if he’s going to bale it with the oats on it or take the oats off. What ever he decides to do, it’s been so long since we had straw, it’ll be kind of nice to have it in the barn.
Oats field before it’s cut
While Daryl was working in the field, I was busy trying to get the lawn mowed again. I had some really bad luck last night and I was hoping that tonight would go better. What happened last night was that I was mowing in the front of our house by the hammock, when all of a sudden I heard something. Now I wasn’t sure just exactly what it was and I looked around and didn’t see anything. So I thought that I better keep moving if I wanted to get everything mowed. OK, this was very wishful thinking. When I wanted to stop the lawn mower and talk to Daryl, I looked at the mower and couldn’t figure out what was missing. Well…. what was missing was the knob that starts and stops the mower. And with our tractor you can’t start it if the mower is still engaged. Well, needless to say that was the end of mowing last night. I tried to fix it, but that just wasn’t going to happen. What I figured was that the hammock caught the knob when I was mowing underneath it and snapped the knob right off. Not cool. Daryl took the mower apart and was able to pick up a replacement piece tonight. So tonight I was in the ‘zone’ mowing to get it all done. I didn’t want to have to mow tomorrow on the 4th of July. And believe me, I stayed far away from the hammock!
Do NOT brake this off if you want to keep mowing!