The guys finished up with corn harvest on Tuesday! This seems like one of the quickest harvest seasons we have had in my {almost} 9 years being around this farm. Maybe it is the fact that I went on two vacations during the really busy time so I wasn't moping around the house waiting for Steven to get in - I'll keep that in mind for next year!!
Now that harvest is done they will be busy with ground work, equipment maintenance, fencing and a bunch of other miscellaneous things that get put on the back burner during harvest.
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend - farm ladies link up below!!
On Tuesday Steve and I had a grain cart date over tater-tot hotdish.
Going out to the field is the only way I can see Steve and talk to him for more than 10 minutes this time of year. But I don't mind the tractor dates since I sit at a desk and computer all day it is nice to be out in field with the guys. *Follow Dana a fellow ND farm wife who works alongside her husband
We are almost done with beans - they have 180 acres left and then it is on to corn.
Next week we won't have From the Farm Friday since I will be on vacation to the concrete jungle of New York City - no soybean harvest going on there, just a hurricane headed their way!!
Whoa that week flew by for me, how about you?!
Glad you are joining me for the Second edition of From the Farm Friday.
I took off for the weekend while Steve stayed home, keeping busy at the farm with combining. During harvest, doing stuff without Steve is common because he is usually very busy. I did happen to meet someone over the weekend who didn't know what combining was so I took that opportunity to briefly explain it and I will do the same here for any of my readers who didn't come from a farming community.
Right now on our farm we are combining spring wheat. The combine is a machine used to harvest crops and in this case, the wheat. The wheat is fed through the header and as it goes through the combine, the wheat kernel (grain) is separated from the rest of the stalk (chaff); the grain goes into the hopper and the chaff shoots out the back of the combine.
At our farm, one person runs the combine, one person runs a grain cart (used for the combine to dump the hopper while still driving, this saves time so the combine doesn't have to travel across the field to dump in a truck), and a truck driver. Steve has currently been the truck driver for this wheat harvest, once his truck is full he will either drive it to a local elevator or dump the grain in one of our storage bins.
I'm a huge pasta and bread fan so wheat is one of my favorites. Besides its food uses it is beautiful, we even incorporated it into our wedding details as decoration!
The guys have a little over 200 acres left for this wheat harvest, they would be further along and even closer to done but we received some much needed rain on Tuesday so it was an okay break.
Besides harvest my father-in-law has been busy making our backyard smell Really bad!! He has been cleaning out the feed lot behind our house by scraping up all the manure, loading it in the manure spreader and taking it to a freshly harvested wheat stubble field. I guess I'm just glad we have less shit in the backyard now, literally!!
I hope you all had a good week and continue it into the weekend.
Let me know, what is your favorite wheat product out of the following: Pizza, Bread, or Pasta??
*Fellow farm ladies link up below with any post from the week talking about your farm/ranch*
Welcome to the first From the Farm Friday where I will give a little insight to what has happened on the farm during the week.
Monday was a busy day for me at my job dealing with hail damage reports. None of our crops were hit with the hail but many producers in our area got hit pretty good last Friday evening.
Steve was busy at the farm on Monday too because they started combining wheat - Harvest 2015 is officially underway! As of last night, 500 acres of wheat to go. Now they have to push through the heat that is headed our way, forecast calling for 100+ degrees this weekend!!
Well that is all I have for a farm update this week - Short & Sweet.
If any other ladies have some farm talk on the blog this week feel free to link up below … I would love to know what is going on at your farm!
It is so crazy to think last year at this time we were just getting done opening wedding gifts and starting to recoup from our wedding dance the night before.
Not a whole lot has changed in the past year, he is still the boy I've told everything to for the past 6.5 years and now we are Husband & Wife.
I would like to think I have started becoming more domesticated but looking around at the mess of {organized} piles maybe housekeeping just isn't my thing. I have managed to keep several house plants alive though, so I'm on the right track in the green thumb department.
As far as my Farm Wife adventures go, I survived Planting season {as a farm widow} and now Harvest is right around the corner. Although these aren't new undertakings for me it is always hard not seeing my hubby until he crawls into bed only after I've been sleeping for hours. So here is to hoping Harvest goes fast, smooth and praying nothing breaks!
I didn't know it was possible but I have fallen more in Love with this man throughout our first year of marriage and I can not wait for all the adventures and years yet to come!
Almost forgot to mention all the fun I had taking photos this weekend {this is just one of them}
