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Alice Acres
Ridin' The Range
I know it was mentioned here earlier - how do you change the title topic in your journal?
Alice Acres ~ new (human) grandbaby!
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Queen Mum
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Go to your first post on page one. Click edit and at the top, you can change the topic.
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Alice Acres
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Thank you!Queen Mum said:
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Alice Acres
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One of neighbors that we get hay from had a grass hay cutting of 80 bales about a month ago. He called Todd to see if we would be interested - YES!
Todd was still working 15 hour days (harvesting sweet corn for Bird's Eye vegetables), so he stored it on the trailer in his shed at his place for us. Turns out it never rained, but who would gamble??
Today was the day to get it put in the hayloft.
Son Travis was over, and grandson William was still here (he stayed overnight).
They drove over and got it yesterday :
Travis and William on the hay wagon:
Then William needed to supervise!
And the view from up in the hayloft :
(And that is Lake Alice in the background)
It's nice today - in the low 60's, and such a novelty to not be loading hay in the sweltering summer heat and humidity. OK, I though it was great just to stand in my PJ's and take pictures!
Then I went for my 3 mile run (in my 1st 5K run this Saturday!)...showered and went into town to meet a friend for lunch. We went to the new Indian food place in town called Taj Mahal. It was buffet and so delicious!! Good thing I ran, as I ate way too much.
Stopped at the bank, thrift shop, dropped my son's work pants off that he forgot in my dryer, picked up my requested books at the library. ahh!
Now about an hour break, than heading back into town to teach obedience classes at The Paw.
The facility my classes are at are wonderful - here's the link if you want to check it out : www.thepawmankato.com
And then back to work tomorrow at 7am for more 12 hour shifts. Days off are never long enough.
Todd was still working 15 hour days (harvesting sweet corn for Bird's Eye vegetables), so he stored it on the trailer in his shed at his place for us. Turns out it never rained, but who would gamble??
Today was the day to get it put in the hayloft.
Son Travis was over, and grandson William was still here (he stayed overnight).
They drove over and got it yesterday :
Travis and William on the hay wagon:
Then William needed to supervise!
And the view from up in the hayloft :
(And that is Lake Alice in the background)
It's nice today - in the low 60's, and such a novelty to not be loading hay in the sweltering summer heat and humidity. OK, I though it was great just to stand in my PJ's and take pictures!
Then I went for my 3 mile run (in my 1st 5K run this Saturday!)...showered and went into town to meet a friend for lunch. We went to the new Indian food place in town called Taj Mahal. It was buffet and so delicious!! Good thing I ran, as I ate way too much.
Stopped at the bank, thrift shop, dropped my son's work pants off that he forgot in my dryer, picked up my requested books at the library. ahh!
Now about an hour break, than heading back into town to teach obedience classes at The Paw.
The facility my classes are at are wonderful - here's the link if you want to check it out : www.thepawmankato.com
And then back to work tomorrow at 7am for more 12 hour shifts. Days off are never long enough.
Pearce Pastures
Barn Babe
Neat pics! I need one of those doohickeys. Last time we loaded hay, we had two guys tossing and me stacking in the loft---not exactly the easiest way to do it but it was at least just a 100 bales.
Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
I had to do the same thing for a friend. We baled 700 bales and after doing the math and how many times I moved bales and what I did I moved hay bales over 700 times. So averaging it out I moved every bale at least once. lol I also walked back and forth the fields (maybe 10 acres and 3 or 4 acres) for hours. So I walked many miles and moved 700 80 pound bales of hay. It was a long day. lol We did the same. We moved them off the trailers and stacked them into the barn up to the roof.
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Alice Acres
Ridin' The Range
It's a hay elevator...and worth it's weight in gold!!Pearce Pastures said:
It's very old, we got it very used. But it is one purchase we have never regretted.
Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
I'll bet. That would not be fun to haul all those bales up into the second story.
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Alice Acres
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Tomorrow I'm running my 1st 5K. 
I should qualify that though. I DID used to run. In HS and college I ran cross country, and distance events in track. In fact our Women's team in college went to Nationals.
Then life intervened and I got lax. No running. Always super busy, but not running. No running for THIRTY YEARS.
Then one of my daughters decided to do a couch to 5k program, and I started with her. That was last summer and it got so hot that we dropped out and stopped. This spring, one of my friends and neighbors (her farm is about 5 miles from me) decided we should go walking in the mornings that I didn't work. So we started walking 4 miles, 3 times a week. All was well...
Then she got the bright idea that we should enter the 5k race in the Mankato Marathon in the fall. This was about the end of May...LOTS of time...so I said "sure"....
OK, now it is TOMORROW!!
So, tomorrow at 4pm I will be hitting the road with my co-runner friend Shanna, and one of my HS cross country teammates Cathy. It should be very interesting. If I live, I will update.....
I should qualify that though. I DID used to run. In HS and college I ran cross country, and distance events in track. In fact our Women's team in college went to Nationals.
Then life intervened and I got lax. No running. Always super busy, but not running. No running for THIRTY YEARS.
Then one of my daughters decided to do a couch to 5k program, and I started with her. That was last summer and it got so hot that we dropped out and stopped. This spring, one of my friends and neighbors (her farm is about 5 miles from me) decided we should go walking in the mornings that I didn't work. So we started walking 4 miles, 3 times a week. All was well...
Then she got the bright idea that we should enter the 5k race in the Mankato Marathon in the fall. This was about the end of May...LOTS of time...so I said "sure"....
OK, now it is TOMORROW!!
So, tomorrow at 4pm I will be hitting the road with my co-runner friend Shanna, and one of my HS cross country teammates Cathy. It should be very interesting. If I live, I will update.....
Straw Hat Kikos
The Kiko Cowboy
Sounds fun. I hope you guys have fun. I love running but don't get to do it often. I hope the weather is good and cool.
