Packaged hay, clicking, and garden update

Two days after the flipping of the hay, they returned and started putting it in rows. That was 5pm. I was totally thrilled to see this, and sorry we were going out to dinner and might miss some fascinating phase. Happily, returning at 10pm, we were just in time to see them start packaging it. Yah, it's all Silage. Perhaps because of the rain, or not, I won't know until I interview a hay farmer. It's on my list of things to do - catch a farmer at good time and ask him all the questions I have. As we drove to dinner, I noticed it happening all over town - hay being baled into round bales and wrapped in mint green packaging to ferment. I was chattering excitedly to my man, "So, is there a Farmers' Forum online, where all the hay farmers coordinate? Like, "When's it all goin' down, y'all? I'm way ahead of y'all, I'll have mine cling filmed by midnight." etc

Or do they all just put a big old X on Ascension day and go to work, rain or shine?

Dying to know. (P.S. Ascension day is a national holiday here. That's the day Jesus went back to heaven. I looked it up today, and immediately after Jesus ascended, two men appeared to the disciples and said, "Why are you all looking up like that?" and I'm thinking they knew the answer.)

My man had a BIG old tick on him this morning from us being to exhausted last night to do tick checks. (We hammered in 19 Tposts. Only 19 to go!) I had a heck of a time getting that thing out with tweezers and won't go into the gorey details. I went straight to the petstore and bought a tick remover. Too bad they don't make a good tick repellent that works for HUMANS.

While at the petstore, I got myself a new clicker cuz I want to continue clicker training Baasha. I learned two things today: Carrots are not as interesting when your pasture is sweet and lush. He'll just walk away.








Why did he walk away? Lesson 2. Freaking charge the clicker thoroughly. I thought I didn't need to, cuz we'd done it before. But since I was using a strange new target, and carrying the clicker in the same hand as the target, everytime I clicked when he touched it, the sound vibrated it and started him so badly he didn't want to touch it, carrot or no. He walked away from me with a wave of his tail, making me feel stupid.

As I showed my husband the clicker, and started explaining operant conditioning to him, my man started kissing me everytime I clicked it. I said "That's not how it works!" but he continued. : )

We're eating sweet peas and the tomatoes have yellow blossoms. The beets are tempermental and require a lot of watering. I lost one entire zucchini plant to a slug. It's war now, slugs. Watch yourselves.










The neighbor brought over a bunch of sunflower babies and left them in my greenhouse. I gave her a zucchini start in return. It's fun to exchange seedlings!









Here's a pic of Baasha trying ot destroy our grape vine. He's eaten every leaf that he can reach with his mouth through the mesh. I think my man is gonna put up another, finer mesh.