Rain and Hay and idiots who are spamming me and now I will have to turn on word verification

First things first...
I do not understand the spammers. Do they even get one hit by commenting on year old blog posts and putting a link to their stupid payday loans website. Neither I nor anyone of the sort of people who read The Lazy Farmer on a somewhat random basis will ever go to the Payday Loans website and get a loan.
Second thing second...
I would like to add my two cents to the search engines about Onlinemac's wireless internet service. While it does say "Wine Country" on the website and I do appreciate that, nearly everything connected to the News Register is somewhat small town and amateurish. That includes their internet service. Now it is true that I have not paid my bill for two months but I really doubt that effects the quality of service. I suppose I should send in my payment. They said they would not disconnect me right away. They will probably publish my porn viewing google searches if I complain too much so I will say the customer service is really good and the guy who comes out with the van is a nice guy. But, I know they can't fix it and so I just ignore it. If only my brother would move his router so I could pick up his internet from my easy chair, all would be well in the world. I know it is not my router that is the problem as I am now connected directly with the ethernet cable and I have still have no internet.
And while we are on the subject of internet I will bring up technical de-evolution. My iBook with a broken screen hinge will pickup three wireless networks (that are not mine) from my easy chair. I have the secret passwords for two of those networks but it is rather difficult to hold the ibook so the screen doesn't go black. The new MacBook has crappy wireless range and this latest Mac OS is not my favorite. (Of course I still prefer system 7.6) The POS network security does not remember the passwords of networks you have connected to. So you have to retype passwords you have obtained through nefarious means and I cannot for the life of me remember passwords.
Thirdly-it rained.
Now I should be out working. I have a lot to do. My brother is working, I heard his screen door slam. I'm a sure Dad has wheeled his walker out to the office is staring intently at his computer screen at this very moment. But, I am setting in my chair with a cup of coffee and looking at porn reading blogs.
But, I digress...
After shutting off and restarting the various routers around the house I am back online and I have photos of making hay. If you care...
Here is the first hay of the season for us. This pretty pathetic considering it was baled June 21st. We should be halfway finished by now and not have some 200 acres to go. This is Meadow Foxtail hay. Sometimes it is called German Timothy by people who are trying to capitalize on the Timothy Hay market. This is a very early maturing grass and does make excellent hay if cut early. It was once used to seed pastures because it can be grazed early. I have a little trouble selling it locally as people confuse it with Foxtail which has sharp burrs on the seeds and can get caught in the teeth of horses and cows. The grass has a long furry seed head similar to timothy but much shorter. The seeds are very light and fluffy unlike the small round Timothy grass seeds.

Here is the lineup of haying equipment this year. The biggest tractor is on the v-rake. The hydraulics seem to be failing on the 2-155, along with the PTO, a broken front rim, and low oil pressure. I think it may have more than the 7,500 hours showing on the tach. I wish I could buy Frank James' White 195, that would be a nice tractor for the no-till drill!

Here is the tedder on the opening round. This photo should be first but I'm sort of backwards this morning anyway. We are applying "hay preservative." I have quotations around that term as I make my own hay preservative. For those of you not from the farming community, the tedder fluffs up the hay to dry it out before baling. It has spinning arms which lift the hay and fling it around. This throws the wet hay up on top so it can dry out.

Here is the pressure regulator. I built it myself! As you can tell...

We used to use Conklin Pro-Serve hay preservative. It touts the benefits of Lacto-Bacissiushkalektket something bacteria which is just essentially putting the right kind of bacteria on the hay to help it cure and a lot of sugar (molasses base) for it to eat and the hope that it doesn't dry out or get washed off and it helps the curing process. (click here for a pdf of a study showing something about hay preservative)  However, Pro-Serve is something like $250 a gallon now and I'm too cheap to buy it. However, I did get a barrel of 30 year old molasses from my neighbor and instead of making rum I decided to make my own hay preservative. I did this by dumping the remains of a jug of pro-serve into the tank and pretending it would work like sourdough starter. I did stare at the tank for a while and concentrate really hard. I have now convinced myself that I now have 350 gallons of boot-leg Pro-Serve. Perhaps later today I will dump a bottle of my wife's lacto-bicyclist indigestion pills into the tank and figure I'm good for another season.
I put a gallon of molasses on 15 acres of hay. I have a little spot-lite sprayer mounted on the front of the M670 and a system with two valves that gives me a little agitation in the tank. There is a filter in front of the sprayer nozzle which I have mounted on the safety guard on the tedder. It seems to work quite well. People say their horses love my hay and refuse to eat anything else once they have tried it. So my goal is to get everyone's animals addicted to my sugar coated hay. I am not sure what I will do when I go through that 350 gallons of 30 year-old molasses. Perhaps I will retire...
"Get off my lawn!"

-Note: I am a bit of skeptic on the subject of hay preservative. When you read the instructions that come with your moisture tester you see that the used of hay preservatives can make the moisture tester read higher which essential makes you think you are baling the hay wetter than you really are. Plus, hay preservatives are so stinking expensive that they fall into that category of "I spent all this money on it so I will believe it works."
But, that is just my opinion...