Monday Miscellany

~~~Two fine people: Harvey Lippert and Lori Jasman~~~

Could be today that Lori or someone who works for Harvey will come back to the Lovestead with a tractor and baler.

It's hay season, and the farm machinery has been coming and going down South Center Valley Road for the past several days.

We've seen hay wagons, swathers, tractors and balers and several trucks loaded down with bales of hay.

Thankfully, this year, making hay while the sun shines has been relatively easy.

Lori and Harvey came by Saturday, and we spent some time visiting before Harvey filled up the diesel tank on his swather so Lori could mow our fields.

I love these two young people---taught 'em both and even worked with Harvey when he took 4-H photography when he was a real young' un. Both are hard-working perfectionists. Lori works in county weed control and devotes lots of hours to helping Harvey in his farming pursuits. I'd be interested to see how many acres of hay they put up all over the county during haying season.

Half the fun of haying season is the people who help out, and any time I see either of these two folks, I know there will be lots of smiling, laughing and fun visiting along with high-quality work.

On another note, Bill and Mike are standing in the kitchen talking fishing. If and when they ever stop talking fishing, Bill will be heading down the road toward Lone Fir Resort at Mt. St. Helens. He'll meet Annie later tonight. Tomorrow they'll visit Ape Cave, a two-mile long lava-tube cave.

On Wednesday, they'll climb Mt. St. Helens.

In the meantime, Mike is here to do some Lovestead camping, some fishing, biking, running, etc.

Busy week and interesting week ahead for all.