Good Morning everyone! All is quiet on the home front for now....
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| A view of my lavender and the wheat field that starts just inches from where our yard stops and the fields start |
Farmers understand the art of patience…. as everything we do depends on the weather, and we all know - you can't hurry it up or make it do what you want. The late cold spring delayed the planting of the crops and the cool summer weather has meant that harvesting the crops is also late by about 2 weeks. So here it is the 1st of August and not a combine in the field. We are hoping to move our combines down to the Tammany farm which is 37 miles away from our main farm here in Genesee. In normal years we would be about ½ way through harvest down there and gearing up to move up to Genesee to begin harvesting the home place around August 10. But this year we are hoping to begin on Monday, August 8th. But as Farmer Joe says, a late harvest usually means better crops, so he is patiently waiting for the crops to ripen. So the combines are out of the machine sheds, have had a good checking over and are ready to go once the crops ripen. Before the combines roll out, I wanted to take a few pictures, so last night I took out my trusty 1950’s bike with its fat tires that makes navigating the wash-boardy gravel roads easier and rode the ¾ of a mile over to the farm shop.
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| The crops are starting to ripen, here you can see the parts of the field are starting to turn golden, but lots of green can be seen |
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| Here is Farmer Jay's combine parked by the shop |
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| A view from underneath the "header", the tines shown help gather up the wheat as it is cut by the row of shears on the bottom of the header |
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| Farmer Joe's combine in the forefront and Farmer Jay's combine in the back |
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| One of the Anderson farm semi trucks parked by the farm shop and waiting to be called into action once harvest can begin |
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| Another view of Farmer Joe's combine by the barn and shown in front of the garbanzo field. This field will be ready for harvest mid to late September |
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| Our house in the middle of the wheat fields |
When I looked the opposite way, here is the entrance to the church that we attend and were married in, where our daughters were baptized, where oldest daughter Jen was married and where the youngest daughter Kaitlyn hopes to be married as well. As you can see this beautiful church has very special ties to our family.
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| My bike parked at the entrance of our beloved church |
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| Genesee Valley Lutheran Church, a very photographed church with it's picturesque setting |
