June is haying month around here. I think the closest dairy farm is about 100 miles away. Twenty years ago there were two in our county. All beef cattle and hay production now. Our neighbor, who farms with an odd assortment of ready to fall apart machinery, has a field of grass hay in windrows, ready to bale, and his baler broke down yesterday morning and is still just sitting there. Parts for a 50 year old baler are hard to find.
I'm still planting the vegie garden, things are really off schedule this year. I need to install some drip lines today, plant my bush beans, beets, chard and kohlrabi, maybe more, and pull a lot of weeds. Having surgery in the spring was a bad idea. It really put me behind. I have squash, cucumbers and tomatoes that I started in the greenhouse, set out into garden rows. The weather turned cold (almost freezing 3 nights right after I put them in) and we were away so I couldn't do anything but hope they made it. They look bad but might pull through. Some of the others I raised are planted right into the ground in my neighbor's greenhouse, so I do have a second chance of getting enough tomatoes to can this year.
Rattlesnakes are slithering around. Hubby killed one by the shop on Saturday. Ryan, our neighbor, was on his way down the hill to tend his potato rows and nearly stepped on the thing. Usually we don't see any on our place until late July or so. Gotta watch and be thinking snake all the time now. Most of them will rattle a warning, but not all of them. Some just coil and strike.
