Haying (There Goes July)

It's official, haying has begun. R started the season off by swathing the highway ditches and then moved to some leased land early last week. M gave him some days off so that he wouldn't get too far ahead of the baler which wasn't even out of the shed yet, and then we had rain so they're not making fast progress. M raked some this morning and did finally make some bales this afternoon, but there is more rain in the forecast for the next few days so he's not sure he wants to lay any more on the ground right now. Last year it seemed like the haying season went on forever. R tells me it won't be so bad this year since he's here to help. I hope he's right. I'm still holding out a small glimmer of hope that we'll have time to do something fun before we get into harvest. Even M took the 4th off and we took in the festivities for the Scobey Centennial celebration. The high point of my day was babysitting my granddaughter for a couple of hours and getting some smiles from her.