Hay the end

We finished hay making this afternoon and for once it wasn't under the menace of gathering storm clouds although the 30 degrees made it unpleasantly hot work.  The rain of a few nights ago didn't affect us too badly.  Around 200 bales went into the barn (you can barely crawl under the roof beams the stack is so high) 

and another 100 are waiting on the ground for a buyer who will hopefully take them directly off the field tomorrow.

Apart from the wheel on the mower dropping off in the hay on day one, the machinery worked fine and our new baler started behaving itself; today it only made two missed bales in 100 which is pretty acceptable for a 200€ machine.  The hay is very high quality and the smell coming off the barn is something to behold

Tomorrow is a bank holiday here so the project is to build a pontoon on the near side of the lake in this photo. The temperature is slowly climbing and we'll soon be able to swim (22 degrees and rising)