Hey, Hay!

 Last week, my family and I drove to West Virginia for a family reunion. It was a looong drive, but we had a great time. 😊 

It was back to work on Saturday and then church yesterday to finish off a super busy week.

I was definitely still moving a little slow today, but puttered at a couple projects I've been wanting to get done. For one, I started on a big compost pile in the future garden area. I've got some awesome compost already started just from the hay and goat droppings that have been sitting by the old goat pen for a year, and plenty more partially rotted hay to add to the pile.

The other project is hay! I recently learned that you don't necessarily need to grow a hay field... you can literally just let your grass grow long, cut it, dry it, and bale it. 

So that's what I did in my driveway today! 😃 

Here's what it looked like before: 

And after a couple hours of weed whacking:

And here is some of what I collected!!

I spread it out, some on the ground and some on my truck tonneau cover - I figured the black surface would help to dry it quickly. I turned it over a couple times throughout the day, making sure there were no clumps of wet grass.

Then this evening I packed it into an old styrofoam cooler with baling twine underneath the grass...tied it up... and I have one adorable miniature bale of hay to show for my labors! 😂 

This will likely be for rabbits, which I hope to add to the farm as an additional source of protein sometime this summer. But if that doesn't work out, I'm planning on getting more goats or sheep this fall or next spring, so it definitely won't go to waste!

Happy Monday!!!