Little House in the Valley

My dad cut a bunch of the hay down in one of our fields trying out our new mower and it has been laying on the ground because of the weather so today the kids and I went out with the wheel barrow and our pitch fork and started to clean it up.

K would bring the wheel barrow to me while I loaded it into it with the fork until he could barely see over the top *grin* and then he would roll it to the chicken coop, come back and we'd start all over again! It only took us 2 hours. Could have been worse : )

Now I have this HUGE pile of hay in the coop, but I have great plans for it. In the fall I'm going to transplant out some of the flowers in the garden beds in front of the house and I'm going to turn them into raised beds for veggies next spring. The soil isn't very good there so I'm going to turn the hay into the dirt as a mulch and then cover it with black plastic to make a wonderful hot bed that will compost into beautiful soil. We do it always for the potato beds and it makes the soil great for replanting : )

Baby M came along with us when we were working and hung out in his stroller. The grass was so high around us that I could barely see from the other side of the field! I didn't want to let him out in it because of the drainage canals right beside us. Just in case he slipped at the edge while we were busy :( But he was a real trooper and played with a bunch of toys and made his own fun to entertain himself!

Blessings,
HuberHof

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