We managed to take a few days off and head to South Dakota to see R and stay with M's sister. That is always a good time. It was so good to hug R and see that he's doing well. We did some wine tasting in the Black Hills and got in on a Miranda Lambert concert. While we were gone J had swathed and baled the grass and weeds that were on some of the acres that were too wet to plant or spray this year. M wanted to get them moved and stacked so that he could get the loader tractor to Opheim where he needs to haul hay. He had me come along with the bale pickup so that we could both move bales and get done in half the time. I'm not sure I speeded things up too much. I had never used the bale bed before and that was a lot of backing up and using the mirrors for this female! Actually, I did okay. Before we got started M assured me that he had a chain in the tractor in case I got the pickup stuck. That was reassuring. Neither of us got stuck but we did find some soft spots--driving along just fine and then having a sinking feeling.
When we finished there I took the loader tractor and M took the truck and hay trailer to Opheim. I had never driven the loader tractor either so it was quite an educational day. M says he can cross a couple more things off the list and pretty soon I won't be able to plead ignorance anymore.
It was getting close to dark by the time he got the truck loaded with hay bales so we took back roads back to Richland and then had to go back to Glentana to get the bale pickup. It was about 8:00 when we finally made it home. M rewarded me by cooking supper--burgers on the new grill. He's off hauling hay today, and I get a day to get caught up at home--after I go check on some cows.
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