Sunday Dose of Cute: Haying Help

The Cheering Section

We're very grateful to our ever faithful stock dog Lucky Buddy Bear, who took time out from doing chicken surveillance (Bear LOVES his new job—more about that soon) to offer moral support and root us on with his winning smile while we were toiling away in the hayfield yesterday and today.

© 2010 FarmgirlFare.com, the so ready for dinner and a glass of champagne (Happy 10/10/10!) foodie farm blog where I don't want to talk about Haying Season 2010 Part 2 until I've blocked it out for a few days first, except to say that it's finally over, everyone survived, it may have actually been worth it—and I hope we never put up hay in October again. The rest of the story, with photos, will be up sometime this week. I think.

Saturday Farm Photos: Guess What We're Doing?

Sunday Farm Photo: Back in the Hay

In a Very Big Way

Just joining us for haying season? This is our second foray into the hayfield. But if you grab a glass of something icy cold, find a breezy spot in the shade, you can catch up with last week's first cutting and read more about the whole haying process—without having to lift a single bale—here and here.

© Copyright 2010 FarmgirlFare.com, the hay as far as the eye can see (whether it wants to or not) foodie farm blog where we're pretty private people—which explains why we don't mind living several miles from the nearest neighbor—but this time of year, the thought of taking on an energetic farm apprentice (or two) always starts to seem to both of us like a pretty good idea. And if we could find somebody crazy enough happily willing to go back out into the steaming hot hayfield after helping pick up all those bales and pick up the zillions of pieces of very annoying cactus that really need to stop taking over the farm, that would be a serious dream come true.

Monday Farm Photos: Bringing in the First Hay

Surveying the hot job ahead of us. . .

Saturday Farm Photos: In the Circle of Hay

This is all that's left of last year's hay.

And this is the hayfield. . .