The best smell in the world....

is freshly cut hay!  There really is nothing better.  I could just close my eyes and stand there and take it all in.  It's relaxing and makes me happy.  

For the first time since we've owned this land, we didn't have crops this year.  We decided to go with hay.  We planted the back in alfalfa and oats and the front in grass hay.  Our alfalfa came in so nicely.  The oats were blown down from a really bad wind, so we couldn't harvest those, but that's okay.  The alfalfa was awesome!  We had our first cutting on August 7th.   Sawyer rode with me as I drove the farm truck out back and watched the guy we hired bale the hay.  We were surrounded by the sweet smell and I wished I could have bottled it up somehow.  I told Sawyer that this is a smell he'll always remember and love and it will always bring him back to his childhood.  

We hired a guy because we had this hay done in round bales.  This man has a baler that makes them very tight and compact.  We can do the square bales and the larger, looser round bales ourselves.  

We sold the hay to a local man and he came and picked it up as soon as we were done baling it. 

Here are the beautiful photos from that day.  I just wish you could smell this most wonderful smell via photos. 

The grass hay field

 

Hadleigh and Sawyer picked Queen Anne's Lace and we stuck it in bottles with colored water.  The flower takes on the color of the water.  They had fun with it.

Comments

[Nicolle W.]

Those are beautiful photos. I grew up in the city, but we have family property in the country and I do love the smell of fresh cut hay as well. My husband's family mostly live in Iowa and I love the farmland up there. It's all so pretty!

Your place looks so pretty and peaceful....

:)

[sloan]

I absolutely love this post - I love to see the amazing things that are just another regular day for you ... they are incredible to me b/c you definitely don't see THIS in coastal New England ;-) Beautiful photos, I think I could just faintly make out the smell of the hay coming off my screen ...

[Kerri]

I know all about hay...my husband work's for a company that makes all the big hay tools! Too funny!
I never knew if you put queen anne's lace in colored water...the flower would take on that color...we are going to have to try this!

[Cindy]

I was wishing I had smell-o-vision!!
I love how you told Sawyer (love that name BTW!!) that this was a smell he would remember from his childhood!
I agree with Kerri...we will have to try the colored water in the bottle thing. Cool bottles too.
Enjoy the night