Sabbatical Hay Barn

Here I am after moving 12 tons of hay (four on my own and eight with help from local reggae dj Doctor Fresh). 

It sounds very impressive, moving 12 tons of hay, but it was done one bale at a time. Twenty bales makes a ton, roughly. One thing I learned, and I learned it the hard way, is that long pants and long sleeves are a must when stacking hay. It doesn't matter how hot it is. I moved four tons in shorts and for hours after I felt like John McCain during his first year as a POW in Vietnam - like I was covered in thousands of micro cuts.