Hay and canned wisdom

1. One truck of hay from Barnyard (went straight to bedding) + 3 trucks from Lake East (this year we compacted it though, so it probably equals 4 or 5 last year's trucks). I really need to come up with some standardized system of measurements here :) About 1/4 of the last year's hay is still in the storage. The commercial guys are baling too.

2. A week or so ago, the sheep completed their pasture rotation cycle. We'll start at DHP again in a week or so, after a couple of weed-fighting missions. So, the pastures had about 8 months of rest this year - not bad at all.

3. “There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors.This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third is by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle...as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.” Benjamin Franklin