New (Old) Machinery

Last week, Shawn came across an old hay bale-ing machine for a good price.

As we have recently lost our contact for helping us with our hay and sharing the bounty,

we have been pressured to work on harvesting our hay ourselves.

As with any old equipment, it needed work to get it running.

All of the kids were curious and anxious to "help", knowing this eases their own physical work load a lot when it comes harvesting hay for their cows and pony and rabbits.

The girls especially spent several hours going over the baler, cleaning and greasing it.

Thankfully it runs well, and we are anxious to try it out, come next hay crop.

and this is just Hannah's photo of her rabbit, Butterfly, this morning, just because she's cute