It comes down to the square mile I guess. Where I am in mid Michigan,it's as near perfect as it's ever been. I needed a year like this more than any of you will ever know. I don't even know how to explain it. It's like every guardian angel and good spirit in existence has moved in with me and decided they like it here. The last several years,I've been so fed up with the weather that I've actually been HOPING for the straw that would break the camels back and make me call a realtor and an auctioneer. For more years than I can even count,I've lost at least a half dozen calves out of the first twenty,due to mud and cold. This year I've lost one,and that wasn't weather related. I finished planting corn May 22 this year. Last year it was June 6th and the year before it was June 23rd. I started cutting hay June first this year,cut the last of it the 25th and baled it the 28th. It hasn't been steady cutting and baling,but the rains that have interrupted me haven't been so heavy that they caused any flooding problems. I was able to move bales off every week about as fast as they were baled while I waited for better weather to cut again. I didn't have any hay rained on except what I cut in the rain. The last two years I've finished baling July 9th or 10th. It was getting real discouraging being out there messing with first cutting when the big dairies around here were all done chopping second cutting. I was turning in to the old guy in the neighborhood who was always a month behind. So far,this year has recharged my battery in a way that I had to have or I was going to quit. If I keep getting years like this one's been so far,I might never retire.
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