"How I spent my summer vacation"

Remember those "How I spent my summer vacation" essays we had to write when we were kids.  Me, and a lot of my friends who lived on farms, spent a lot of the summer working.  Of course there were days of fun as well, but I really disliked those essays.
This summer I came across a photo challenge: create a photographic essay with the theme "How I spent my summer vacation".  I thought it might be fun to do a photographic essay about a day at the farm - updated considerably from my days as a youngster.

Ready for servicing.

"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."

B. C. Forbes