Thursday, August 21, 2014

Hay (not only) for the Horses

"I'm sixty-eight", he said,
"I first bucked hay when I was seventeen.
I thought, that day I started,
I sure would hate to do this all my life.
And dammit, that’s just what
I've gone and done."

From "Hay for the Horses" by Gary Snyder.

6 comments:

  1. Actually that looks like straw. Hay is cut grass and good food for horses. Straw is the hollow stems of cut grain after removal of the seads during harvesting - barley wheat etc - and is used for bedding and ground cover in barns but not eating. Straw is much lighter, easier to shift the bales. Hay is heavy. I much preferred working with straw in my farmboy days. But hey... who cares?

    Me, obviously...

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    1. He who does not know the difference between hay and straw, in German is called a "Strohkopf". I am a "He", obviously. :)

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  2. Hey... I meant seeds, not seads (obviously). These typos appear between checking and publishing. They do, they do!

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  3. Love the photo :-) I don't care if it is hay or straw ;-)

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    1. You don't care?
      Hay!! That's incredibly nice of you. :)

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