Harvest

Harvest is one of the busiest times around here. My in laws work long hours during the fall. Me being the farm girl that I am not, rode along with my father-in-law in the combine. I just love riding along. I do however enjoy watching corn be harvested than beans. But I still enjoyed watching the beans being harvested.

My in laws worked at the farm at our house for 2 days. They finished last night and I can honestly say I "helped" I learned how to make the bean head go up and down so when Chuck needed to "grease the chains" or something like that, I was able to make the teeth things move. (You can tell I'm a true farm girl...teeth things). But how I really helped was bringing supper out to them the nights they worked at our place. Of course I was asking all the needed questions...how do the beans get in this thing behind us. So, I learned a lot while sitting in the combine for a few hours.

Brent's Uncle Larry had a farming accident about 6 months ago. A trucker who was at Larry's to haul grain backed into an auger which landed on his Uncle. Long story short he has had to have numerous surgery's and is going back for another one tomorrow. His last surgery the skin graft and muscle are dead. So, when a farmer is laid up the other farmers in the area get together to help out. Brent and Chuck are going to go to Larry's tomorrow afternoon to harvest his crops. Please pray for Larry to have a speedy recovery, and this next surgery to work!

Here are a few pictures of my time in the combine. Sorry about the evening pictures, they aren't as good as if it were day light. But hopefully I'll get some better ones when they come back to harvest corn.

This picture is from my "buddy" seat in the combine. Not the most comfortable, but beats the floor!


This is the field right next to our house. It was a beautiful day outside but I had to keep my windows shut, bean dust is the worst!

This is another picture of Chuck's combine, you can see the dust. This picture of the dust doesn't even do it justice of how dusty it was. Also, I should point out his tractors are RED.

Wrigley enjoyed people being around outside all day. He also thought he was helping so he posed for a picture.

How can you not just smile when you see how cute he is!!!


This weekend we are heading to Des Moines to pick up my dad and head to the Central Football game. And our nephew Maddox turns 1 on the 10th! I can't believe he is already a year old, and my other nephew Jack is going to be a year next month. Just Crazy!

Hope everyone is enjoying fall as much as we are! I love the cooler weather, but I hate the Asian beetles. They are overtaking my house!