Mostly Hay

Second time around this season, there is going to be a third one as well, sometime in september or early october. I've written about this before here and I won't go into detail.  

The farmer who lease the land rolled in with his tractor and an eleven meter wide mowing machine attached to it and whizzed around the field mowing it. The hey ends up in eleven meter wide strings after that so, shortly after his wife turns up in another tractor with another machine attached to it with huge cylindrical rotating things with long spikes in them gathering the hay into strings about two meters wide. T

he husband had, in the meantime fetched a huge wagon with some sort of assembly line that gathers the hay-strings and put it inside the wagon. His wife had arranged it so cleverly with her machine that he didn't even have to maneuver at all, he just followed the strings around, sucking them up in his wagon. When he left the time was half past eleven. They'd cleared it in two and a half hours in three steps.

One thing that hasn't changed though is that the man was mowing, which traditionally was the mans job using a scythe and the women went after the the men using rakes with wooden pins in them gathering the hay, like she was. It was then left to dry for some time and later they'd come with horses and carriages bringing it to the barn. In this case though, I'm sure the woman would be as capable of driving the mower as he was.

I was really wiped out yesterday, having something I thought was a beginning flu but this morning I had no fever, just feeling a bit tired so the concert on Sunday is going to happen after all.