Hay!

This is just for my younger cousin who thought it was so hilarious to yell this while loading square bales, "Hay! Hay!"

There is always plenty to look at in the sky when we load bales.

Loading the oat square bales took two different days this year. This is how far we got the first day before the tractor broke down. 

This is the tractor and "scoop" that we use to load the bales onto the trailer. After that, the bales are stacked by hand in a manner to interlock them. This is important because they need to stay in place when the truck is traveling across very bumpy fields and roads. If they aren't interlocked correctly, then a huge portion will fall off. Trust me, I've see it.

However, when the front wheel and bearing on that tractor looks like this...well, it isn't advisable to continue the task at hand.  

So, we continued a couple of days later. Which was fine by me. We had more help. This little one was very helpful ;-) You know you're a farm kid when you are perfectly content with coloring on the back of a pick-up in an oat field.