Haying Time

Well, we finally started haying.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/swathstart06172005.jpg'><img width='220' height='117' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/swathstart06172005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />nI can't believe how green it is. Normally we would wait until the hay is a little more mature but the fields we are starting on have quite a bit of cheat grass in them and I want to get them early.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/swath06172005.jpg'><img width='220' height='165' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/swath06172005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />nThe horses looked at the operation and really wondered what we were up to.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/horses06172005.jpg'><img width='220' height='165' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/horses06172005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />nThe horses are even looking good.<br />n<br />nWe cut down around 40 acres today to get started. Only 800 acres more to go. It will take a while.<br />n<br />n<b>Time present and time past<br />nAre both perhaps present in time future,<br />nAnd time future contained in time past.<br />nIf all time is eternally present<br />nAll time is unredeemable.<br />n<br />nT.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot</b>