Quite A Day

I've got such a busy day ahead of me today. I've got to get all my laundry and housework done as early as I can this morning because I've got to help both my dad and sister today. My dad called last night asking if I would help him with hay. Yes, I said hay. I did grow up on a farm, and I earned my keep. I still work in the hay fields every summer...but I get to drive the truck. I've got the easy job.

Normally we would have finished up with hay at the beginning of September, but it's been such a bad summer drought-wise that there's hardly been any hay. Normally the cows and horses live off the grass in the summer, and we start feeding hay later in the fall, but I've been helping Daddy put out hay all summer because there's nothing on the grounds to eat. That means the winter supply is dwindling. We've been bailing every field we can find, and luckily my dad knows a lot of people with land that they're happy to have mowed for free. I've seen a lot of farmers actually following behind the work crew when they cut the grass on public roads picking up the excess grass to bundle up for hay.

It's gotten that bad, so I'm thankful Daddy needs my help to cut another field. We're going to cut a field sometime this morning, and then we're going to go bail another field that's been cut and drying for a few days. I've already loaded an audio book and plenty of tunes on my mp3 player because it's going to be a long couple of hours on the tractor then in the truck.

After that I've got to go with my sister to find some things for the new house she just moved into. She's renting the place, but her rent is free for the first few months because she's fixing the place up for the landlord. We've got to go pick out a new dryer since her's died last week. She's got to repair and replace a few things like old flooring, kitchen cabinets, and bathroom vanities, but it will all be worth it. The landlord is paying for the supplies. We've just got to pick them out and do the installs. I guess it's great her brother in law is a carpenter *wink*.

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