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"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."
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From "Hay for the Horses" by Gary Snyder.
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"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."
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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?
ReplyDeleteMe, obviously...
He who does not know the difference between hay and straw, in German is called a "Strohkopf". I am a "He", obviously. :)
DeleteHey... I meant seeds, not seads (obviously). These typos appear between checking and publishing. They do, they do!
ReplyDeleteStrohkopf! :)
DeleteAh ha ha ha ha ha ha . . .
Love the photo :-) I don't care if it is hay or straw ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou don't care?
DeleteHay!! That's incredibly nice of you. :)