First Haying of the Year!
Oenomel (n): Something combining strength with sweetness
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm
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First Haying of the Year!
Oenomel (n): Something combining strength with sweetness
Your friend on a western Colorado farm,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I remember my father making hay.
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Lots of work
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Yes, indeed. He did square bales when I was small. He’d hire a bunch of young men to pick up the bales from the field and put the bales on a trailer. They would unload the bales into the barn. When I was in middle school, he brought a round hay baler and a lift with prongs for his tractor. I always thought the tractor carrying the hay bale looked like it should tip over.
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Just seeing the picture, I can smell the cutting!!
And I love the word – Oenomel.
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Our world smells like fresh cut alfalfa. It’s marvelous!
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I have two clumps of volunteer alfalfa in my front yard. I like them and the bees like them, but today I had to cut them. I thought to myself, “Me and half the farmers in Colorado.”
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They will grow back for two more cuttings 🙂
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I gotta’ get a baler… 🤣
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🙂
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Yeah..now no rain for you until it is all stacked up and sold:)
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Yes.
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This brings back memories of when I was growing up on a farm. We would help a neighbor with his hay and he would hep us with ours. Even with the help I was always tired at the end of the day.
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So tired it’s hard to eat. 😦
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Wow, that was quick!
It was 42° this morning, so my tomato & pepper plants are still in the sunroom. Too cold.
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First of June. Always first Cutting. Next one in about six weeks give or take
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Java Bean: “Our Dada saw this and said something about Crowded House and then he started singing ‘Hay now, Hay now, don’t dream it’s tall grass …'”
Lulu: “We have no idea what he’s talking about.”
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Haha. I sang along as I read this
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Wow already! I bet the smell is divine😊
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It is. First field done and sold. Now on to the second one. Exhausted
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