hay bales are hamburgers

When I was a kid I used to think that hay bales were great big hamburgers sitting in farmers fields. 

When I thought up this stuff I was like 4 years old, it's one of my very first memories. Remember that at this age, going to McDonalds was sorta a big deal to us kids. Maybe their delicious hamburgers influenced my thought process in some very strange ways.

While on the "McDonalds as a kid" topic, I recall always having to ask for a cheeseburger with no cheese. I vividly remember this for some reason. Whey wasn't I ever corrected or told to order a hamburger if I did't want the cheese. Why wouldn't I want cheese? I LOVE cheese. 
HOW WAS THIS EVEN EVER MADE TO BE

McDonalds did't mess me up in any other strange ways. Whenever I see something like this, obviously, I say "now that's a lot of chicken mcnuggets."

We got a lot of stuff done this weekend and the yard had to be addressed. There are two weeks left before the wedding and I needed a solid weekend to get things back into tip top shape. I cut a lot of grass, burned a lot of maggoty garbage, cleaned the barn interior and farmer Norm showed up to harvest the hay. He managed to pull 49 five foot bales from the yard.

49 bales from the yard?

That's a lot of bales. I was thinking more like 15 or 36.

 That is like, oh no I'm falling down!

Ya, Shaya decided it was good idea to kill a few rabbits the other day and Annie decided it was a good idea to eat some duck head Friday so between the two eggheads, we managed to acquire quite the maggoty fly infestation. Ya. Awesome.

#994 - maggots

They are awesome because I got to make this fire and burning stuff is awesome until the you pour water on it and then you get a eau de smoldering garbage vapor until the next morning and you realize you left the upstairs windows open.

Pretty epic to see the land cut like this. All over the place walks are doable again!

remember the movie Critters? nevermind...

Essentially we let farmer Norm work the land for two days and he got to keep about $4,000 worth of hay we estimate. Not about to get a retarded full size tractor, hay cutter, rake thing and a hay baler for this piece of land. For farms under 25 acres it is makes more sense to do it with horses. 

No, a fence can wait.

If we put up fence I'll somehow end up getting a horse.

Or several.

We are getting free hay out of this deal because there is no way we were paying for hay after the unusable field was transformed into a dog park.

secret mist is the key to a successful hay crop

On a final note, the Peking ducks are essentially ready to process (white ones). The Muskovy ducks are good to go too but were keeping this handsome fellow (black one). Goose is not food, as he survived the raccoon attack and got candle lit baths. That little Orpington there will be processed in the fall in a much smaller cull. The heritage chickens are only starting to fill out now. We're only keeping something like 6 hens and 1 rooster over the winter and the rest will end up being a chicken roast, the most delicious meal you can get at Medieval Times.

hands up; baby hands up!

the kevin fish

Nothing against Jesus and Darwin, I just like this one better.