TEXAS = BIG

Folks in Texas do everything in a BIG way! I grew up on a farm for several years when I was young, and I remember helping load bales of hay onto a flatbed trailer to haul back to the barn and we had an conveyor belt that we threw the bales on to get them up to the hay mow. We've been buying hay locally until we became acquainted with Ed Sweat - one of those entrepenurial folks I alluded to previously. I think Ed has done about everything in his almost 80 years, and he still puts in a full day's work sprigging fields (more on this when the grass is up) - but we discovered that Ed supplies the local feed store with hay. He has BIG bales which he unrolls and rebales into around 72 smaller bales. So we bought one of his big bales and invited him to dinner. He delivered it with a backhoe just in time for dinner! How big, you ask??? Each bale weighs in the neighborhood of 1500 pounds! Check out the size of this bale:

So after dinner and fascinating conversation, it was time to go home. Here's Ed heading home in his 'Cadillac'. Where else can you invite someone over and they arrive and leave on their backhoe!

One more picture I can't resist! Kittens at 3 weeks of age - gonna jump out of that box any day now!!!