Amazing Good Luck!! Interesting Update

[Carol Nelson]

I guess I'm being compensated for the bad luck we entailed when we got hit by the tornado a week ago. Yesterday we drove 80 some miles down to the coast to get some hay...6.50 a bale, I was told...we pick it up in the field. Since I'm paying $9 to $9.50 a bale for coastal around here, I thought, hey, even with the price of fuel as high as it is, it would still be worth it to drive and pick up some of that hay.
It was the nicest old man who owned the field, and there were some guys out there loading a trailer as we came up. He told us to go ahead and load and he would meet us at the end of the field when we were done and take our check.
I looked out and thought there was something strange about the field, and then noticed the bales were a deep dark green. As we drove out into the field, I had to get out and look more close...it wasn't bermuda coastal...it was ALFALFA!!! I went ...HOLY MOLY!!!
So we loaded up the trailer with a hundred bales and came home with 100 bales of alfalfa for 6.50 a bale. I had just run to the feed store that morning (if only I had known) and bought four bales at 13.00 apiece!!
Knowing that alfalfa attracts the blister beetles...I was very careful to examine the bales, and the field itself...the guys before us had broke open a bale so I picked through it carefully...but I've never seen a cleaner, more weed free, bug-free field. I saw no evidence of any bug-life at all. It is beautiful alfalfa!
Boy, the ponies are gonna eat well this month!!! :D
THANK YOU, GOD!!!! :D

[Brigitte]

That is great, the horses will be very happy!

[motorgypsy]

That is FANTASTIC!!!

[CarolU]

If it was ME, I'd put a sign out and sell that alfalfa for $12/bale and go buy 3 times as much Coastal.

[Carol Nelson]

I thought about that, Carol...but considering they won't be cutting any coastal for another month around here...and the man told me that coastal down there is running about the same price, I think I will just keep this and feed it. Will cut my hay consumption in half or more.
Plus I can't even GET coastal at my own feed store this month and the stuff you do find is pretty crappy! :roll:
We spent all day putting this in several different barns (since part of my hay barn blew away). I'm praying it's good and dry...as dang, those bales were heavy. But he cut it on Wed. morning and it was baled Saturday, so it laid out in the sun for those three days.
I'd sure like to make this guy a regular supplier... IF this turns out to be as wonderful as it looks right now! :-?
Dished out handfuls to the ponies from the remnants on the trailer...and they acted like it was the finest filet mignon!! :D
Will take some time to get them acclimated to it as it looks pretty darned rich.

[Carol Nelson]

Well, it was just as I expected...the alfalfa I got last weekend was baled too wet, and so it's probably going to spoil before I can use all 100 bales...so I offered it to a couple of friends, and then put an ad on craigslist.com at 8.00 a bale and it's already sold...before 10:00 a.m. And I've been real honest and told people exactly what's wrong with it...it's beautiful hay but it's not going to keep long. They don't care...

(no, I wouldn't feel right asking 12.00 a bale for it... ;-) )