Our alfalfa is now cut. The weatherman says (SAYS) we are to have 7 days or more of good ‘ol sunshine.
Misty told her Dad that she wants to learn to farm. Evan knows how, now it’s her turn.
Practice makes perfect! Driving and cutting with laterals really isn’t as easy as Dad makes it look.
Each row should be straight and square to the field.
Oh, well. Next she can learn to pull the pinto beans.
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
Did Terry easily hand over the reigns?? Or did he hold on tight??
With farming in circles like we do in WY it seems to camoflauge the not so straightness!!
Congrats to the farm girl!!!
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I hope you get as many of those sunny days as you need to get your crops done…and that you send it our way when you are done with it. Our rows tend to not be so very straight…..
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That would be how my rows would look. Tell her I said that straight lines are boring.
Glad you are getting some end of the summer sun.
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Beautiful crop! Those guys make it look like a piece of cake don’t they? She did pretty good though 🙂
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Not unlike the first time i tried to sew a straight seam on a machine. I’m glad no camera captured that for all time.
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Good for Misty! As you say ‘practice will make perfect’, I’m just glad she ‘wants’ to learn. Glad it’s dry enuf to do your hay and black eyes.
We got a taste of Fall here on the South Plains…a norther blew in and it is in the 70’s today and yesterday, down to 48 degrees this a.m.!! It feels so good!
Blessings!
CottonLady
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That is a beautiful cutting of hay. I would be so excited to have youngsters interested in the business that making a few jogs with the bailer would be a very small price to pay. Go Misty!
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Mmmmmm…..wish I could smell it.
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I hope the sunshine holds out for you!!
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No matter how hard I try, I can never get my rows straight, or cut a staight line, or make any thing out of wood to “sqaure up”. Enjoy the last remaining sunny days! blessings,Kathleen
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Hi Linda, Glad your weather has improved…. HOORAY… We are enjoying wonderful weather right now also…
Good for Misty…. She’s learning from the BEST…. I’m proud of her.
Hugs,
Betsy
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I remember when the hubby taught me how to mow, he said to me, see those trees ahead pick a tree and head for it and use that as your guide, yah right! Good thing he didn’t care how it looked as long as it got mowed and he could come behind me and do the rest:)
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Not a bad first effort – and good for her for wanting to learn!
Jan, I had the same thought about sewing. I still have those awful curtains in a box somewhere…
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They are just starting the second cut here…..you’re way ahead of us as usual.
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It was supposedly 113° here yesterday, so if your weather is coming from our direction that hay will be cured quickly. Love the smell of fresh-cut alfalfa.
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Don’t get me started on not mowing straight lines ;-D.
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The passing of the torch!
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Go Misty! Farmer girls are the best!
I haven’t seen a mower that leaves the cut hay in pile since the last time I was in Colorado during the mowing season. Here in the middle of the plains they have to rake it into a pile after they cut. I guess it is because of the higher humidity that we have over this way. The hay wouldn’t dry proper if it was dumped in a pile as it cut.
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Beautiful pictures Linda! And hurray for Misty!
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