WEEK 15: Sluggin' it

While for some the heat of the dog days may make time seem to slow in a haze of lazy days, I discovered that the second cut of hay meant we had to slug it fast, and hard, to get the hay out of the field and into the barn before sun down, after a regular day of work. Having missed the first cut (which was way more hay), I was impressed with the might of my fellow workers, who were throwing bales around like kleenex boxes as I sweat and grunted and feared I might vomit. The hard work is compounded by the thrilling fear of trailing the hay wagon, whose wobbly wheels give it a nice weave from the shoulder to the oncoming lane as we travel the 4km from the rental property to the farmstead.
We made it though, and had pizza and beer to celebrate.
Busy market day on Thursday (I set up and ran the Locke Street stand alone, while Denise and Jocelyn stuck it out at the Dundas market with Cactus festival festivities blocking them in).
Friday was a sweet cruise to the week's finish line: we got several hundred of our fall brassica seedlings and the last of the storage crop seeds into the ground (rather late) and ended it all with an Oh to Grow session on farm implements. We also planned our YMCA adult camp visit, which the interns will head next week, as Chris and Denise will be gone celebrating their anniversary with a little Ontario foodie road trip.
This weekend, the trailer twins (Jocelyn and Meghan) are gone to their respective cottages, David is doing his usual work with Backyard Harvest in Hamilton, and I am finishing up some promo and educational material for Manorun to use at market, and hoping to do some tomato processing... the harvest is plentiful this year, with lots of sun and heat and regular- but not excessive- rainfall on our sandy loam soil.