May, the End of Autumn.

Autumn is the time of brilliant sunsets:

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And hay time:

 

Ettie Delivering Hay

Normally we only need a bit of supplementary hay for about two months of winter but after the flood, there was more heavy rain so the ground is still wet.

Neil went out west and loaded over five hundred bales of hay onto Ettie. All of which had to be unloaded and stacked in the shed by hand. It took four of us about three hours. We'll need around two hundred bales for our cows and sell the rest.

The cows thought it was Christmas when Ettie turned up loaded with hay. There was a stampede over to the shed to check it out. They were rewarded with the broken bales and the scraps - a veritable feast.

 

Cow Stampede. Donna, Fiona & Heidi into the Hay.

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May, 01

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