January Life

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 Finally there is snow on the ground! Oh, a very little bit, but snow! And actually, the snow is gone now, I think it has been drizzling, but we had snow this AM. Normal January weather, I thought. NEVER MIND!

Yesterday was a busy day for us; Saturdays always are. We had 100 bales of hay to load and put in the hayloft. I should have grabbed the camera and snapped some shots of how we do it, but I didn't! 

Since we sold our hay elevator years ago, when we got out of cows for the first time, we have to either throw them up there, or use a rope. We use a rope. To throw 100 50 lb hay bales into a loft that is 12 feet up is out of the question! We have a pulley and a steel hook, that we loop through the twine, and pull it up. Someone is in the loft, unhooks the bales, and passes them to another person, who stacks them. It gets done pretty fast this way, and it's fun!


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