Month: July 2018

This rainbow was right over us but we knew we were lucky even before that! The grass is green in mid July, the hay crop is outstanding, the cattle are fat…and on and on. OK, so the flies are horrendous, the posts in the yard fence all rotted off this year, the barn cats had a bumper crop of kittens, both trees in the yard died – but so what! The grass is green in mid July… Our life really couldn’t get much better – or if it could, we don’t know how it could. After all, the grass is still green in mid July!

What a fabulous year…and no, I haven’t forgotten the winter we survived. But the grass and hay are more than incredible and every morning we can’t wait for the dew to dry so we can get into the hayfield. Mother Nature has taken tremendously good care of us this spring. We had golf ball size hail that broke a couple windows in the houses  – and my hummingbird feeder – but damaged our hay very little. That’s an easy trade-off! Our thoughts go out to friends and neighbors who have lost their hay to hail, or haven’t had the blessing of so much moisture. Daily, we stop a moment to take in the wonder of this hay crop and cows belly deep in green grass in July.