HAY … HAY … WHAT A GLORIOUS DAY!
Sorry about the dreadful rhyme, but the weather is absolutely wonderful here and you’ll never guess …
I’ve been allowed to drive the tractor! Nearest and Dearest is tangled up in conveyors, crushers and screens and things, (metaphorically, I hasten to add, they’re all on a computer screen) which means he hasn’t time to turn the hay.
I’ve spent the last hour whizzing around the field flinging semi-dried grass in all directions and trying to avoid impaling the dogs on the flails!
Almost heaven, except for those wretched hayseeds!
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Comment from: lorraine [Member] 
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Um, sue, shouldn't you be looking where you're going?
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01/07/08 @ 14:58
Comment from: ozhm [Member] · www.writtenwordsolutions.com.au
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What bliss! It's a glorious day here too - but it's still winter...
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02/07/08 @ 00:49
Comment from: sue kendrick [Member] · http://www.suekendrick.co.uk
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Yes Lorraine, I should, but I got snapped when a shower of hayseeds blew up!
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02/07/08 @ 10:30
Comment from: sarah_james [Member] · http://www.milltech-systems.co.uk
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I'd love to try driving a tractor - as long as there were no people nearby and it didn't matter what part of the field I drove it over!
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02/07/08 @ 15:12
Comment from: sue kendrick [Member] · http://www.suekendrick.co.uk
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I know what you mean Sarah. The reason I don't get to do it much is because I broke the baler a few years back!
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02/07/08 @ 15:48
Comment from: greenygrey [Member] · http://www.greenygrey.co.uk
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Looks good fun and lovely weather and surroundings. Bliss I'm sure.
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02/07/08 @ 18:53
Comment from: jak [Member] · jakill-jeansmusings.blogspot.com
Lucky you. On this occasion, anyway. Great reason not to be slaving away at your computer while everything is bathed in sunshine. Hope you beat off the hay seeds.
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03/07/08 @ 13:53
Comment from: mater [Member] · http://www.freewebs.com/theapprenticewriter/
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My grandson (4 on Sunday) wants one of those for his birthday!
You need some goggles, he said.
You need some goggles, he said.
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03/07/08 @ 20:43
Comment from: marilyn [Member] · http://www.writelink.co.uk/blogs/marilyn
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Oh yes please! It reminds me of the time I was eight and a half months pregnant with my first born. It was a boring time and I felt fat, frumpy and bored when my brother paid me a visit on his brand new motorbike. Hubby was out at work and when I finally cajoled my brother into letting me have a go (and yes I would be careful I promised) he didn't see any problem.
It's handy being the eldest of 4 siblings as they think you know everything, until, never having ridden a motorbike before, I screamed: 'How do you stop it! He screamed instructions at me and not being able to hear what he was saying over the cacophony of noise somehow, don't ask me how, I managed to escape the inevitable by deciphering something of what my brother was shouting with an intuitive sense of survival. It worked and me and my 27-year-old first born is still alive and kicking.
Now where is that tractor, or bike, I'm not fussy!
It's handy being the eldest of 4 siblings as they think you know everything, until, never having ridden a motorbike before, I screamed: 'How do you stop it! He screamed instructions at me and not being able to hear what he was saying over the cacophony of noise somehow, don't ask me how, I managed to escape the inevitable by deciphering something of what my brother was shouting with an intuitive sense of survival. It worked and me and my 27-year-old first born is still alive and kicking.
Now where is that tractor, or bike, I'm not fussy!
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05/07/08 @ 19:56
Comment from: gillyflower [Member]
Roll on summer. It's very bleak & wintry down here in Tassie at the moment. But at least the grass isn't growing so no need to hop on the ride-on for a few more weeks!
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06/07/08 @ 12:18
Comment from: sue kendrick [Member] · http://www.suekendrick.co.uk
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Out of the mouths of babes ... your grandson was absolutely right! I did need goggles! Eventually resorted to sun glasses. I'd have loved to have seen you on a motor bike at 8.5 months! If it's any consolation Gilly, it's been tipping it down here for most of the weekend.
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07/07/08 @ 10:37