First Hay of the Season

Today was a little chaotic.  It was my first day without the former farm manager as his last day was last Friday.  Monday came in like a lion, that's for sure.

It started out by the jack on the livestock trailer (full with six 250 to 300 pound pigs) not wanting to work - I could not spin it down onto the hitch of the tractor.  With help from maintenance and two hours later, we got it working.  Talk about having to go with the flow.  By then it was 11:30 and decided that I'd stay for lunch and leave at 1:00, since the pigs didn't have to be there until 5:00.  

The day was turning out to be a beautiful one, and with two more to follow.  All I could think about was how I should be haying.  So the Farm Crew Niche said he'd take the pigs so I could hay.  Woo woo!  I was a little nervous, but I knew I just had to go for it.  This field mowed today is the toughest field that we have, full of ledge rock.  But I went nice and slow and mowed my 2nd hay field ever.  And tractors are starting to click with me - I was able to work the differential brakes to my advantage, learn how to round corners so I wouldn't miss grass.  I felt like a farmer today!

Here is the field before:

And here's after:

So with the bumps in the road this morning, I consider it a very successful day.  Monday went out like a lamb.