Tuesday was interesting

Yesterday was quite a day.  Left work at 3:30 to go find some hay.  Ran completely out and the guy we usually get hay from . . . well, let's just say I hope not to deal with him again. 

Anyway, I headed out to Prairieville to pick up some plain old grass hay from a private individual.  VERY private, as it turned out.  When I got out there, the place looked more like a junk yard than a home or farm.  Six-foot chain link topped with razor wire with a "bad dog" sign on the gate.  But Lizzie needed hay NOW, so I pulled on in and the guy and his son (both fat, wearing torn bib overalls, like characters out of a tacky movie) signaled me to follow them.  They opened an electric gate and I drove through, waited for them to shoo a huge black bull out of my path, and continued on to a second electric gate.  After going through that one, we came to a big run-in shelter with an old very sway-backed horse standing nearby and they loaded up the truck with pretty decent grass hay.  Then I wove my way back out.  Creepy.  But nice enough hay.  Then I drove as fast as I possibly could back to Al's place, trying to make it before the rain got the hay wet -- not easy since the speed limit along the Bayou is only 20 miles an hour tops - 10 through many of the curves.  For good reason, too -- the road follows the edge of the bayou so it's shaped like a giant snake and it's VERY hard to make some of those turns in anything as large as a truck - even at 10 miles an hour!   You have to pretty much just stop if you meet another vehicle in one of those curves.  Anyway, I drove through a couple of light drizzles but the trees meet overhead along the bayou so the hay stayed dry and I made it to the barn JUST before the real downpour began. 

And again the sun continued to shine during the whole deluge.  What's up with that???

Look at the steam coming off Al's driveway.  It looked like the place was practically on fire when the rain began, but since it took me a good 10 minutes to finish off-loading the hay and get out the camera the steam isn't nearly as bad in the picture as it was when it began raining.  Louisiana is HOT!