COUNTRY BOYS
It's hot as Hades here in South Georgia. The temperature was 91 degrees at 9:00 AM this morning. I'm out in the hay field raking up the hay that was cut yesterday. The tractor's umbrella shielding me from the sun seems to only make things hotter. Once the cut hay is raked into rows, baled and loaded onto the flatbed trailer, we'll drive back to the barn and hoist up the bales into the loft. The hay will feed the cattle all winter if we're lucky. When the last of the hay was cut and raked, ready to be baled first thing tomorrow With advice from the football coach, Dad had lined up 10 High School guys from the football team to help load the hay onto the trailer and get it all up into the hayloft before dark. After a break for lunch, the guys hopped on the trailer and we went back to the hay field and we did it all again. I judged that two more trips with a loaded wagon would get the last of the hay into the barn loft. While...