Mr Rainman and I went over last weekend and finished getting the rest of the woven wire up in the field in Hermiston. The only thing left is to get a row of electric wire mounted near the vinyl fence on one side of the field and we can drop off the ewe sheep. It only took about four hours for the both of us but I am not even sure I could have done it alone without cutting the woven wire near each tree. I would not have been able to get it behind the tree alone intact. It of course ended up raining on Sunday afternoon.
Today I finally managed to get the last of the hay picked up and haying done for this calendar year. I had some help loading the trailer and the back of the pickup. Loading the back of the pickup allowed me to only have to make one trip! I had to toss some of the small bales from last week back into the machine shed before I had enough room to empty out the trailer. There is probably almost 5000# of hay in small round bales ready to be fed. We will feed out the small round bales before I use the large bales. There is probably 6-8 weeks worth of feed in just round bales and that is really dependent on when we get our final freeze or snow flies.
I have to say that loading and unloading two ton of hay by myself is not quite as easy as it used to be. I am definitely more tired than I would have been even five years ago. Again, working until 0300 at the paying job then haying the next day is not a normal schedule. I just need to get all of the hay equipment cleaned off and put away back into the machine shed for the winter.
My next project that I hope to get to this weekend is getting the bricks laid down for the gazebo. I just have to get the compactor running then spread out the sand and compact it down. Then it is merely laying out 1600 bricks in a pattern.
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