Milo

On Saturday a farmer friend was clearing out his grain bins for the upcoming wheat harvest and loaded about 3/4 ton of milo into the pick up truck.  Last year at harvest time there was some difficulty even finding the milo and what was found was of inferior quality.  This is really nice grain although it does still have some chaff in it.  The price was right.  Free as long as it ALL goes which means another 2-3 pickup trucks full.  Or he may simply load it in the big truck and haul it here to be dumped in a manner similar to the way the wheat arrived last year (which the wild turkeys interpreted as an invitation to make Prairie House home).

It has been in the 90s here during the day.  Milo is not as heavy as wheat, but much heavier than oats for the same size container.  Oats are easy to move around.  The containers of wheat are nearly impossible for one old lady to move and milo isn't much better.  Milo is itchy, scratchy, dusty, nasty stuff to handle (but the chickens and goats think it is wonderful!).  The heat combined with the misery caused from handling the stuff has caused the truck to be only half way unloaded after two days.  It is a slow process.

Thinking about unloading another 2-3 truckloads is not something to look forward to.  The animals at Prairie House are spoiled something fierce.  How did that happen?