You know your friends don't understand you when...

[regasssa]

You say you have a lot of work to do outside and you'll chat later -- and when you come back two hours later, dripping in sweat and near fainting in exhaustion, they ask you whether you enjoyed your gardening.

x.x

Turning hay by hand is the most brutal manual labour there is. But my farm car is working again! Woot! I love driving, even if it's just back and forth between the hay barn and the field. My friends are teasing me about how I'm going to be buff and tanned like Wonder Woman by the time I'm done, and should therefore cosplay her instead of a pale Shinigami. Oops.

Comments

[blue-eyesgirl.livejournal.com]

And that is what face paints are for!.... though then you might melt :/

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I miss hay making. We don't have our own at my present stables - in fact, atm, we don't have any as the whole UK seems to have run out because of flooding last year.

I too tend to spend summer looking buff & tanned. I am already golden brown, and that's just from normal stable work/riding. Today nearly died of a sun stoke, though, as wearing real tweed all day long in very hot weather - very unusual for south England in May!!

When is your colt arriving?

[regasssa.livejournal.com]

Hah - I don't know how hay making always ends up being the same week that I'm overworked. We had lots of rain and long days of sunlight early in the year, and the grass got very high very fast. It's very early for it, actually.

It was really hot when I was in the UK last week. I think it reached 36 here yesterday, but it's thankfully a little cooler today. So maybe I'll be lucky and there won't be any thunderstorms to interrupt by drying period.

As for the last question. Well, you know what I said about 'knowing my luck'? ~.~ Argh. It just all went tits up, is all.

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

:(
Oh no, is there any way of savings things?

[regasssa.livejournal.com]

Aah...not unless we magically get paid a lot in the next week. *dead* We just finished a new product, and they only ordered 200 of the damn things. *cries* It is not of the good.

[chamyl.livejournal.com]

I think some of the people who have a farm-thing don't imagine the great difference between gardening and farm-work? ;;

[regasssa.livejournal.com]

Hee. I did find it kind of amusing, I'll admit. But it's such a vast difference between raking off your freshly mown three inches of lawn and clearing a whole football pitch of hay into a barn, lol. I think he thought I'd gone out to plant flowers or prune rose bushes.

[traitorousrat.livejournal.com]

If you're buff and tanned, go as Yoruichi!

[nights-fang.livejournal.com]

Wow hay turning sounds tough. I agree with the above comment, about going as Yoruichi. OR maybe Grimmjow