Moving hay

I went to a Sheep Field Day at UC Davis yesterday. Good program, but that's not what this blog is about. Look what I found when I got home...

It may not look like it, but this is a good thing. This is what is left from 3 stacks of hay.  My husband had started to move it into the barn.

We have to stack all this hay by hand. Notice I say "we". That's used loosely. I helped after I got home, but I had gravity on my side for a lot of it. I am good at knocking the hay off the stack. Then I used the hand-truck to move the bales into the barn. Dan did all the stacking. I'm lucky that Dan likes to have a good work-out now and then.

Here is Dan dropping hay off the 4th stack. In 4 stacks of hay there are 320 bales. I bought 20 tons of alfalfa so each bale  is about 125 pounds.

All the hay is in the north end of the barn. (The hay in the stall is left over from last year.)

Its good to know that we can stack that much in one end of the barn.

It seemed that a Sunday morning newspaper was a privilege well deserved. Note cat position. It's hard to get good photos of a black cat.