We were headed to the field with supper on a Friday evening during harvest. I remembered that I’d forgotten silverware and being a considerate person and assuming the partakers of said harvest meal might prefer to have a spoon to use, rather than their fingers to eat potatoes and corn with, I swung into my in-laws’ […]
Darling Kittens
We adopted a stray kitten last year, that showed up at one of our aunts’ house. My kiddos named her O’Malley and she’s been a really good cat. Right after we returned from Hatteras, she blessed our farm with three of the cutest kittens to be born here in a long, long time!! Simply darling. {As […]
The Wheat Is Cut
Every stalk has been cut. Well, practically. There’s always a few that get missed or run close along the edge of the field, left to wave in the wind until the disk starts in. Every bushel has been hauled. Kernels so small when by themselves or in groups of two or three or twelve. […]
Memoir Monday {No. 77}
Renae had this Cameo Appearance flexi in at the beginning of last week and I loved how it looked with her braid and her shirt. Harvest kept on rolling. Peterbilt kept rolling. For the most part. Combine breakdown at the end of the week. We encountered way too many ticks one night at the field. […]
Of Cutting and Filling and Unloading
Golden stalks. Golden Grain. Crisp stubble. Hold off rain. Cutting up. Cutting down. Across and Over. All around. Combine Bin. Getting Full. Chaser Bin. Dump it all. Augers out. Emptying loads. Truck full. Off it goes. Elevator. Wait in line. Dump. Repeat. Harvest time. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2015
From The Harvest Field
We loaded up supper on Saturday evening and we loaded up ourselves and my daughter ended up in the driver’s seat. And I said, “If you’re going to drive, I’m going to eat on the way there.” We backed out of the garage and we drove down the lane and turned onto our dirt […]
Memoir Monday {No. 76}
I’m so happy to have flowerpots on my porch this year! I’ve been enjoying them. Last year, I didn’t feel good and couldn’t water them or even really get anything for the porch. We had some hanging pots and a couple out by the old garage, but that was more than enough to keep watered. […]
Harvest 2015 Begins
We’ve been ready to get this harvest started! We’re glad for the rain we’ve had, but we’re ready to cut wheat. The grain hasn’t wanted to dry down and we’ve had damp mornings. I got up this morning and looked out and it looked like Ohio! Gray, foggy, damp, humid. Not a bit […]
Just a Campfire
Gather Around. Gather Supplies. Put it all in. Make it all nice. We stoke it up. And add some more. Let it burn down. We’ll make some smores. Shake it quick! Give it a blow! Gaze at the flames. Watch as they glow. Home. Together Great way to be, Just a campfire. You, me and […]
A Bit of What “FarmWife” Looks Like For Me
I’ve been a farmwife now for right at eighteen years. That’s really kinda hard for me to believe. Ok, I don’t know what connotations and pictures the words “farmwife” conjure up in your mind. I will confess it tends to make me think of outside-choring, of driving equipment, throwing hay with a pitchfork, gathering eggs, milking cows, […]
The Farmer Plants Corn
Pictures tell stories. The name of this story is The Farmer Plants Corn. Or My Farmer Plants Corn Or My Farmer and His Son Plant Corn. Anyway, it’s about a couple guys planting corn. They’re planting corn, in case you didn’t catch that part. You can jump over and watch this video and find […]
Spraying With a Sprayer
I was out and about a bit, at about the same time as my farmer and his sprayer took off on their maiden voyage spraying wheat on our farm. I wandered over to the field and took some pictures. I enjoy it when it works out for me to snap farmy photos. Many times […]
Hauling Hopper Bin Bottoms
Once again the days are moving along and the mile long list of winter time projects has been shortened a bit, but never as much as my husband would like it to be. I try to comfort him with the fact of, we-wouldn’t-want-to-run-out-of-things-to-do, but he never bites on that very well. I also argue that this-is-life and […]
Putting On Fertilizer
Nice weather. Sunny weather. It means work while the sun shines. It means head to the fields and do what needs done. It means spring is coming. Will the rain? It means time to put on fertilizer. It means errand time and food delivery for this farm wife. It means grabbing my camera and *happy* […]
Do You Want to Cut Some Milo?
Posting some of my milo cutting pictures from earlier this fall… Do you want to cut some milo? Or ride the combine round the field? Just climb aboard and shut the door, We’ll see what it’s going to yield. It gets a little itchy, From the milo dust, Just swirling around the cab… {back and […]
More Beans To Cut
One of the irrigated circles Matthew checks, had double crop soybeans on it. Everything happens in groups it seems…. We had wheat to drill, milo to cut, and these beans to cut. We were glad to get it all done…….and earlier than some years. It’s not uncommon to have milo to cut on Thanksgiving. Now […]