Actually it is a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that I get 1 or 2 days off because of the rain. The curse is that if there is any hay that they didn't bale before the rain hit, we will be out there rolling those fields at painfully slow speeds to try and save the integrity of the hay.
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Overall it is just what happens in this biz during this time of year. The other good thing. The owner of our company stopped to chat with me out on the fields yesterday. He said "Man you guys have been really covering the ground!" I told him "yea, but if I had the equipment that I was promised at the beginning of the season, we'd be dangerous!" My little 2 rake crew has been averageing over 500 acres a night! We have been able to keep ahead of 4 large balers and 3 small balers. The most interesting thing. All these guy's were rookies at the beginning of the season. Not one of them had any experience running a rake before. We now have a crew that rivals anything(including the crew we had late last season) they've ever had as a rake crew.