Getting Ready...

The 5 day weather forecast says that later this week the weather is going to change and (they say!) it will be set as hot, dry and sunny...and that all suggests that by the end of the week we could be cutting the fields to start making hay!

This means that we have to get the barn ready by making room for the new bales (potentially somewhere between 800 and 1200 bales!).  We still have some hay remaining from the 2011 and 2012 cuts.  Obviously we still need to use up the oldest hay first, so our mission this afternoon was to temporarily reclaim the back of the barn from the ponies to make room for us to store the 2011 hay there.  If we don't do this, all the old bales would be left rather inaccessibly under all the new bales!  

After clearing a space, we (Hazel-Ann, Graham and Faye) shifted all the remaining 2011 bales, leaving a rather smart, flat area in the barn ready for the new crop...and a new stack was formed of all the old bales at the back of the barn

...Now we need to wait to see if the forecasters are right with their predictions!!

New space created to store the old hay

Barn now prepared with a flat level

Hazel-Ann with her newly created, temporary haystack in the cleared area at the back of the barn

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