Yesterday – an hour before the tractor arrived to bale our hay – it began to rain, just a little at first then the skies opened up and it rained and rained all morning. We even went in and worked on rainy day jobs – sowing seeds and baking! And last night we had a hige storm with even more rain.
Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. Hay making has a whole lot of luck attached. And Wai and I have used up a lot of our luck this year. 
Who doles out our allottment of luck each year anyway? It seems a terribly Irish concept so maybe a faery or a leprachaun of sorts. Probably a leprachaun actually as they are known to play mean jokes on occassion.
After the rain the temperature cranked up into the nineties and Nothing was drying in that wet heat. Not even the washing on the line.
But Wai very quickly puts my hay woes into prespective. At least my body is not falling off in great stinking chunks as big as a childs shoe. But did you see those big red patches of healthy skin! Slowly but surely Wai and I are getting himself cleaned up.
The tomatoes are growing amazingly well, though still green some of them are huge and threatening to bring their supports down. We will be eating tomatoes very soon. Lots of them!!
Looks to me like we will be thinking about getting this hay up on Monday. My hay man does not work on the weekends as they are worship days. So we will see what the weekend brings. I have six acres down. It will be total rubbish. At the very least it will make good straw. But one way or the other it has to come up.
I hope you have a lovely day
Love celi
Weather : Not hay making weather today especially after last night.
Friday 07/21 60% / 0.18 in
Partly to mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 88F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Friday Night 07/21 40% / 0.16 in
Partial cloudiness early, with scattered showers and thunderstorms later during the night. Low around 75F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
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27 responses to “No Hay Day”
Wai does put things in perspective. I saw on the news last night that someone poured gasoline on a dog and lit him on fire. The owner is in jail, thank goodness being charged. The dog is recovering though. I don’t understand what makes people do such things. There is enough tragedy without adding to it. I’m sorry about your weather. I won’t tell you about ours right now. It’s not nice to gloat. 😦 Keeping fingers crossed that the leprechauns move along.
Sorry about the hay, makes it more difficult to have enough winter feed. Wai certainly is making progress, he’s a tough fella, good thing too. It may sound odd, but it might be just as well he was so overweight, gave him an extra something to fight with. I’m not sure he’d be doing as well if he’d been thinner.
Your work is such a lottery depending on so many things coming right at just the right moment. Fingers crossed for some good leprechaun luck 😀
Sorry about the hay, happy about the Wai 🙂 xxx
Living in Ireland, married to an Irishman whose body is falling apart at the ancient age of 44… those leprechauns have a lot to answer for! Maybe we need to start leaving a small dish of milk on our stoop?
Wai is getting there, he is a tough guy for sure (and not just his unwanted armour). Sorry about the hay. Fickle weather fairies!
Late abroad because of long technical issues – regret the hay story . . . am watching the Illinois rain scene non-stop again! Wai – praying and hoping for a strong constituency! Can’t believe the wonderful normal pink skin patches but do not like the lesion on right back. Bestest !!!!
You have to be a special type of person to be a farmer and you, dear Cecila, are definately special:)
We walked to the park for breakfast on Thursday, but then the skies turned black and opened up and literally poured rain. We had to Uber it home and even so, got drenched running to and from the car! I wish dry weather for you over the weekend and particularly on Monday!
J > Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
I’m glad you commented on that photograph of Wai. I shuddered when I first saw it. Now I see it differently. That’s an amazing picture. Amazing team, you and Wai. Life forces, pushing through whatever nature sends.
sweet Wai- I think of him every day….as I think a lot of us do!~ Big virtual hugs to this intrepid soul.
Love those sunflowers .. Wai is amazing! So pleased that he is doing well. Great job girl 😃