Harvest 2015

HI! I'm so sorry it's been so long since I've got a blog written. It's been a busy busy month. I know no excuses, I should have made time. I've got lots of pictures to share with you! Harvest 2015 is well underway. We have all the corn done and are going to get a good start on beans tomorrow. We had a couple days of "rest" in between corn and beans. What that really means is that Matt was really busy getting everything ready and serviced for beans. 

This is actually before we started corn even. Not a great photo, but I was impressed that he let me take one! 

Dumping onto the truck. 

Chasing the sunset and combine. 

Love how beautiful it is right after dark with the lights on on the equipment. Such a beautiful sight. 

Dumping onto the grain cart which is dumping onto the truck. 

A VERY rare time I got to ride in the combine with my Forever. VERY rare! I told him I was going to take it so apparently he decided he was going to do serious face instead of smiling with me.

The grain cart is normally where I spend most of harvest. The job of the grain cart driver is to make sure the combine keeps picking. We can fit two combine bins onto the grain cart. It takes 3 to fill the truck. We unload on the move quite a bit so that the combine can continue picking. We don't like having down time and we don't get done with the combine stopped. 

Changing topics a little bit to our four legged kid. I was home briefly one morning throwing in a load of laundry and doing dishes when I heard Abilene start barking and going crazy. I went outside to see what was wrong and she had a raccoon "treed" right on our deck! That means like right outside the back door! I made her come inside so she didn't get hurt and called Matt. While this was happening the raccoon made its way around our deck to our front door and sat right outside staring at us while Abilene was barking like crazy at it from the inside. My dear Forever finally got home and I let Abilene out to see where it went. She put her nose down and took off on a exact straight line to the raccoon's home. Maybe she would be a good tracking dog. We found out she is scared of guns though.

So proud of herself.

We boostered our weaned calves with another shot so that they don't get sick. This calf apparently decided he really wanted to get to the wheat mids in the middle of the truck bed. He just crawled right on up. 

Changing gears again...conservation is important to most farmers. We've been taking out some trees to clear up ground for grass to grow. This particular pasture was getting very brushy. It takes a lot of water out of the ground for those trees to grow and also takes ground where grass could be growing. We spent a couple days and will spend some more clearing brush and cutting posts out of the trees that we take down. My job was to run the skid loader and make sure Henry was able to get to the trees to cut the posts out. We will use the posts to build new fence. 

Matt ran the hoe to make sure that the trees wouldn't fall on the guy cutting the trees down. 

Matt wanted to get the hoe serviced today. I got bored waiting for him so I started taking "felfies" with the cows. A little wheat mids for persuasion. They all gathered around the pickup and were watching what was going on. 

Again another rare opportunity. He hardly ever takes pictures with me. His hoe is in the background and the service pickup/feed truck for the cows. The cows enjoyed getting a special treat today.

Well, that's about all I've got for this week. I'm really hoping to be more regular with my blogs. Bean harvest pictures coming soon :)