Not really, sad to say.
Other than my normal thing, around 8 hours a day out at the farm, I haven't been doing a whole lot of anything important or interesting. Feels a bit like treading water, or waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The rain stopped falling shortly after my last post, other than the odd short shower or brief thunderstorm. This has allowed us to bale up a very nice quantity of hay, all the rain in June and July made for fantastic hay crops in the area. It would have been nice to have a fresh crop of alfalfa, ours are all quite old and diminished to mostly brome grass, but we still ended up with around 200 very nice, round bales.
This picture gives an idea just what I mean by fantastic hay:
That is brome grass, if you are unaware. It typically grows around two and a half feet high. The stuff in the picture is around 8. Now I should say, this is an exceptional patch. Most was around 4 feet this year. But still...pretty damn impressive.
The summer pasture has grown in nicely as well, and 4 cows, 4 calves, a yearling bull, 3 yearling steers and a yearling heifer are getting fat and sassy on thick, tall grass. It would be nice to have about 30 more head over there to take advantage of the good forage but at the same time...just letting it die and decompose will help regenerate soil that has been sorely tested by drought the last few years.
I think that's as far as I'll go in updating tonight. Next time I'll talk about the mixed blessing that has been the garden this year.
Peace and comfort, brothers and sisters. I hope you have been, and continue to be, well and good.
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4 comments:
Good to hear fom you Jerry. Amazing hay!
Seems nearly every garden has been a mixed blessing this year. Strange times.
Glad to hear you're still alive and have had a great hay crop! I'm desperately in need of a good rain. We've only had about an inch since the first part of July.
Glad you got all that hay, Jerry, and that your cattle are doing well.
I'm not over here much lately--or really anywhere in the blogosphere these days. I can appreciate you taking a month off--there is life outside of the computer.
And, if you check out my post of 8/20/11, I awarded you the Leibster Blog Award--just because I enjoy this blog so much.
Be well.
Wow MoonRaven. Thank you so much. I will go check it out!
Teresa, its amazing how that works. Apparently we should be expecting the extremes to continue and even worsen.
You know it Linda. Strange times indeed, but I just keep thinking that stranger ones approach. At least we cannot complain about boring times!
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