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Joe's combine cutting wheat |
We finished our wheat harvest on the Genesee farm around 6:00pm Thursday, August 26th amidst a crazy summer wind storm. The overall yield was slightly above average for the Genesee farm, but it was not the "bumper crop" many had expected (including us). The early indicators of having an abundant harvest were due to having the near perfect weather conditions such as lots of rain and cool temps in May and June which typically produce record wheat crops. But we are still happy to have a little above average yields and even happier that they are now safely in the grain bins. We now have a small field of lentils to harvest and many acres of garbanzo beans to harvest as soon as they are ripe, which should be in the next week.
As many farmers, including us have many different field locations, it takes a little bit of organization to get all the equipment moved from one field to another. To give you an idea of what moving looks like, I took this picture of a neighbor moving his equipment along the road we live on. The header on the combine needs to be removed as it is too wide for roads or highways, so it will be pulled by a pick-up on its special trailer.
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Pick-up pulling the combine header on a special trailer |
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Farm equipment moving along our county road |
Like many farm families, we enjoy hitching a ride or two on the combines and tractors and the day before we finished, our oldest daughter, Jen brought the grand-angels out for another ride.
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Brinley and I getting ready to take a ride with Poppa |
Brinley is our 4 yoa grand-angel, although she likes getting rides in the equipment, she is more into picking wheat for a bouquet for Mom. She is our girly girl, just like her momma and Aunt Kaitlyn. On my side of the family we are used to all girls and they are all "girly girls" who like dressing up, shoes and all the glamor that goes along with that.
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Brinley in the wheat posing for Grandma |
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Natalie awaiting a ride with her Poppa in the combine |
This is Natalie, our almost 2 yoa grand-angel. This is one who grabbed her Mom's phone when she saw Poppa in the field and shouted... "Poppa..... "bine" (combine) .... ride.... NOW!" I think it was her first 4 word sentence. From all early indications, I think this is the child who will be wanting to hang out with Poppa in the field as soon as she can. She loves her John Deere boots, trucks and combines. Today at our house she ended up taking home one of Poppa's farm magazines because she liked the pink truck that was in the magazine.
Gayle,
ReplyDeleteI loved the grand-angel pics! And also the farming one!
We finished wheat Friday at 5:30pm. Yea! It is good to get the wheat in the bin before the last rain on Friday night. We hope to start harvesting the garbanzos on Tuesday.
Hope you are doing well and taking some R & R before the garbs need to be cut.
Jacie