Week 12 -- Theme

Taking Risks 

Haying and stacking hay bales can be rather interesting. Some heavy, some light, some long and some short, some tight, some loose, all need to be stacked to stand high and tall.

It is quite a journey from the hay field to the hay loft. 

It is hot, the summer sun beaming down on the open field. Tractor and baler rumbling along. Truck, trailer and people moving along bale to bale. Need a person on the truck and trailer, who will be able to stack the most hay and have it stay on. That is not have any fall off from the field to the barn, sometimes this can be several miles. 

The poor old truck, start and stop, clutch in and out, going ahead or stalling. Truck thinking, boy why do they try to teach these kids to drive me, in this hot hay field. Haven't figured out yet that this is hard on me. Well anyway, finally get the truck and trailer loaded. Now to get it home to the barn without any falling off. 

Stacker did a good job this trip around all of the hay is still on. Now it needs to be stacked in the loft. thought the open field was hot, wait until you get in the loft of the barn, with the heat and hay shaft sticking to you. Holy shit, nasty feeling. Now the hay needs to be stacked just right to fit a lot, plus when you need to get it down later so that it doesn't all topple down on you. 

Sweaty, sticky and itchy done for the day. Pop the top on that beer can. Icy and cold, Oh, does this taste good. We all start pounding down a few. Some one gets the bright idea of stacking beer cans. 

"Don't you think that we have done enough stacking for one day." someone comes out with.

"Well we can see if we can stack beer cans as well as we can stack hay. "someone else replies.