HAY!

Finally - after a month of rain, we got 2 days of dry weather and my hay supplier was able to cut. So yesterday and today JD and I made repeated trips with his pickup to start filling the hayloft for the coming year. Right now we've got 135 bales of first cut, and 50 bales of second cut, because there was one field he was able to cut over a month ago that regrew. The second cut is awesome! The first cut is as would be expected for mature hay. It's got some stalky stuff in it, but also some of the mid-summer grass hay that had grown into it. But the best part is that it is clean hay, no undesirable stuff or weeds in it. We just need to get about 115 more bales to have our year's worth. I'm going to wait for the second cut for that.

Tonight it feels like October. It's cool and the sky has those fall-looking clouds. We still haven't had much summer weather yet. I hear that places like Texas have triple digit temperatures, which is hard to imagine right now. The farrier comes tomorrow morning, so at least it will be comfortable for him to work. I'm going to put front shoes on Sailor, so we can start working her more with the idea of riding her.

My mom continues to do amazing well on her new med. She is back to where she was over a year ago. And I think the memory medicine "nemeda" has worked to help her cognition. She is astoundingly sharp for someone who could not even converse a couple of months ago. I just hope this continues. That's all for now - got to go out and throw the horses a little bit of night time hay.