In the past few days we’ve had a few deliveries. The other night we got a delivery of 60 bales of hay. This should feed the goats for the whole winter.
Here is the hay all loaded up on the truck:
The farmer stood in the truck and threw the bales onto the floor of the barn. We scrambled to stack them up. Storing hay is a precise science. If the bales are damp or don’t have enough air flow, they can spontaneously combust and burn down your barn. There are also many types and grades of hay- first cut, second cut, and so on.
We stacked the bales:
We also had 2 cords of wood delivered. Luke’s garage has a wood stove and we have a fireplace so we decided to stock up now for winter.
This is a cord of wood:
The delivery guy dumped the first cord in the covered area of the barn, then drove away to get the other cord. It was pouring rain and we didn’t want the wood to get wet so we stacked the wood so they could dump the pile under cover again. The delivery guys couldn’t believe we’d stacked all that wood in the 20 minutes they were gone! Now I’m sitting by the fire enjoying a cozy evening while it SNOWS outside…yea, we had some snow showers already.
