Pluggers by Rick McKee for September 22, 2024

Pretty expensive decoration.

I’m guessing there’s the odd welded statue there too.

Hay there, this must be Orson’s Farm!

I don’t think a farmer would waste a good Round Bale ;-)

A major source of income back in the 60s for country kids was loading the bales of hay from the fields onto a flatbed trailer pulled by the farmer’s tractor. Today, farmers make these monstrous hay cylinders that can only be moved by machines.

Like the “Hay Dude!” sculpture in western Illinois. On 34 or 36, if I remember rightly. Or the Minions hay sculptures.

I like the ones with half a witch on a rboom stuck into th end of the big round bales or Snoopy riding/flying on top of one.

Yes, and especially when the bales have come from his own front yard…

living in farm country we see a lot of creatively decorated hay bales

That happens every sow often.

I’m so old I remember when all hay bales were rectangular bales.

They weren’t fun to decorate but they made good seats.

A guy near us has a 250 gallon oil tank in his yard he painted like a cow. He changes it with seasons and holidays.

How about a foot thick cut out from a large old tree. Created by nature. (see avatar)

No waste there.

Good to see the country still has a place for whimsy and a sense of humor…

Never give it up!…

pluggers in these parts use hay to feed livestock and rusting vehicles for yard decorations…

they use rejects all the time

Creative and cute.

…and those big-@$$ propane tanks…paint ’em up just like this…at the risk of offending Hank Hill….

If you want to see more of this, they do farm art around Reedsburg, Wis: >

That would involve having enough space in front of the house to put it out.

We have a semicircular driveway with a straight section heading into our property towards the garage on the north end of same. Our van sits on the grass in the semi-circle of the driveway (not on the driveway – in the semi-circle it makes). Our RV (a different, larger van, sits on the top end of the straight section of the driveway. Our car sits on the bottom end of the straight section. Only place left in front of the house where anything could be put is the actual curved section of the driveway which we need clear to pull all/any of the vehicles in or out.

I like the farmer with round bales in white plastic stacked by the road with a sign saying extra large marshmallows for sale.