My husband was busy loading hay trucks for a couple days last week, with eighteen arriving. Usually hay trucks are
flat bed trucks, but in this case, the trucks were the more common box trucks. That makes for some interesting challenges.
Here's the inside of an empty box truck. It's long, narrow, and only open on one side.
Here's my husband loading a couple bales of hay into it. They just barely fit width-wise.
Then he adds the third bale on top. That one's tricky to get in just right.
There's no space to spare, as you can see. The next step is to push the bales back enough so that some more can be loaded.
As the truck fills up, a second loader pushes the first loader to move the bales forward. They keep pushing until the loader wheels spin.
It's pretty amazing what can be done with heavy equipment.
Here are a couple trucks waiting their turn. Then they'll take their backhaul and be on the road. I wish I could get a glimpse of how they unload the box trucks--that seems tricky as well.
I was driving down the road the other day and was startled when I realized that out in the inversion there were not only ice-covered shrubs, but also little lumps of animals. 
Thousands of sheep were nearly blending in with the landscape. I really don't know why they all had their butts pointed at me.
They just meandered about, finding their preferred food. Sheep do particularly well at grazing in the desert in the winter because they can eat snow to obtain the water they need.
One sheep was on the wrong side of the road, so we were able to get a nice closeup of it. Then it decided it didn't want our attention and ran off to join the others. You can see how they manage to stay warm with that nice, thick wool coat on. 
