Raked the hay yesterday and started baling, but it started to rain a little so stopped after 10 bales before breaking the shear pin due to them being too heavy. Loaded up the 10 onto the truck, gave 5 to the cows / heifers, 4 to the horses and bulls and the last one to the sheep. Think it's our best hay yet, but could do with another day drying.
I'm a little handicapped without the buggy for feeding beasties. Hopefully the new wheel arrives early next week. So wait for Herbie to get home from work with the truck. Means feeding times are now split, morning for the cats, dogs and poultry, afternoons for the hay eaters.
Took Anni down to Leslie yesterday for breeding. The same place I took her last year, when she didn't take. Remington is a beautiful red and white pure Border Collie, so hoping for some tri-coloured puppies in October, ready for their new homes in December. She wasn't a happy girl, seeing as she's still a little "ma vas" after my 5 days away in Tennessee. Rosco is also moping around, but at least he comes to me for more loves. Need to give him a haircut. Herbie too :)
Stopped at some yard sales in Leslie. The whole town seemed to be having one. Spent under $20 and got a babys' high-chair for Herbies grandkids when they come over, 2 rolls of new black weed fabric, a large terracotta pot for my ginger, 4 saw-horses, a 75 ft Stanley tape measure and a metal birdfeeder with a roof. Also stopped at Family Home & Farm, but their baler twine was $5 more expensive than Tractor Supply, so only got a 40lb bag of BOSS for the cows, then on to TSC for the baler twine. Drove Noddy out back and dropped off the baler twine. Tied the new rolls to the old ones so it'd be one continuous threading through the baler. Not going to happen again like my last baling, where ¾ of a field lap before realising the twine had run out.
Had a lovely lunch today, even sat at the diningroom table. Potato salad, fennel and mint salad, lamb chops and dilly beans from Angie. I was curious about them. Herbie had never even heard of them before either, but thinks they taste like sweet baby dill pickles. I must agree, didn't taste like green beans at all.
The bee sting on the back of my thigh is still the size of a dinner plate, but not such an angry red anymore. It hurts when I scratch it, but also feels good. The mosquito bite on my ankle is the size of a lemon and still itches like crazy.
Herbie is fast asleep and I'm wanting chocolate :) but the chocolate cupboard is bare :(. Maybe I should go make some molten chocolate lava cakes.