My husband started farming eighteen years ago. He cut his first milo crop in the fall of 1996, married me in May of 1997, and cut his first wheat crop in June of 1997. {I can’t say for sure which of the three events he enjoyed the most, but I’m leaning strongly towards wheat harvest.} […]
Let’s Play With Pop-pops
Our old John Deere R had been needing some attention, so the mechanic of the family did some work on it and then got it out to take a spin or two. He ended up bringing his brother’s John Deere D over from the farm and consequently tried starting it up. It sprang to life […]
Planting Boxwoods
Hooray! Boxwoods to go along the front of the porch! Let’s hope they can survive our hot Kansas weather. Especially this spring, because we are dry! Very dry. Back in April, we dropped Tucker off at a friend’s so he could celebrate his friend’s birthday with him. Then the rest of us headed off to […]
Worry and Wind and the One Who Walks on Water
I could see the worry lines around his eyes. Invisible, yet so visible, the weight of discouragement and decisions upon his shoulders. The silhouette of a farmer against a backdrop of swirling, blowing dustclouds. The howling wind full of dirt, rising and lifting. Our own dirty thirties. Pieces of Oklahoma and Colorado and western Kansas […]
Planting Trees
A story in pictures! We had a few trees planted! We had the kiddos each choose a tree. Tucker’s is an ornamental flowering pear tree. I’m already imagining how much my son and his tree are going to change in the next five years! ‘Cause we all now how fast five years will go […]
We Haul Wood
Cold Weather. Six degrees cold. Hungry Wood Furnace. Keeping House Cozy. Eating up wood. Quickly. Leaving Woodbox Empty. Time to Fill it Up. Wheelbarrows at the Ready. We Haul Wood. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2013
Time to Cut the Milo
We started cutting milo the end of last week. Today my farmer man is racing against the weather. We were waiting for the moisture to go down in the grain, so we could cut. Now we’re hoping to get the most of it cut before the weather changes. We’re supposed to get rain tonight, with […]
Filling a Drill and Emptying a Drill and Filling a Drill….
If you want to drill a wheat field, you need a drill to drill it with. And you need some seed wheat to go in it. And a drill fill auger to fill it with. And then someone to run the drill fill auger. And when you get your drill full of seed wheat then […]
Beautiful Milo
I love how the fields of milo look in the late, late summer, turning into fall and then it is autumn with cool mornings and evenings. Milo is itchy stuff to cut and getting it cut can drag out towards the end of the year, but I think the ripening heads are so beautiful! If […]
In Which There Is Wheat Drilling
The warm, earthy smell of the freshly worked dirt. The feel of the wheat, a heavy handful, slipping through my fingers in a mesmerizing trickle. The creak and jangle of the drill. The clanking of the press wheels. The slam of the drill lids, filled again. Work boot prints in the dirt from my farmer. […]
When It’s Time to Drill, You Need a Drill Fill Auger
Getting ready to drill wheat involves getting a seed wheat truck ready to go and that means putting the drill fill auger back on the truck till the wheat’s drilled and then it will be take it off again so we can use the dump truck for other things and for saving seed wheat when […]
Home Ec and Carrots and Drilling {hello monday}
Here we go a’drillin’ wheat down in the worked-up ground… Hello to helping cut some beans and then hopping into more wheat drilling prep and starting to cultivate and to drill~ Hello to carrot harvest! Tucker helped Grandma dig carrots and she sent a bunch home with him. Aren’t they so pretty? I love the […]
Close-up Combine, Cutting Corn
If you aren’t all that into combines or farming you probably just want to click away now!! 🙂 You can click over here for a yummy Snicker’s Ice Cream Pie recipe or here for warm, crusty Herbed Oatmeal Pan Bread. If you want something crafty, you can go read about our trampoline project here […]
In the Field, Cutting Corn
Beautiful fall time harvest sky! Lots of upkeep to a machine! When there’s moving parts, they need to be kept moving easily with lots of oiling and greasing! Cutting and hauling and carting the crop! Loading and unloading and loading and unloading and loading and hauling to unload again! Mealtime still rolls around, even when […]
Of Cutting Corn and Corn Spills
What would harvest be, but boring, without a grain spill or two?!! My farmer husband man and I were talking and we don’t think we’ve had a year of cutting on our circle that we haven’t had a grain spill. 🙂 Keeps life interesting and makes some good photo opps! Yep,yep, yep! Here’s our milo spill last […]
Adding to my Hello Monday Journal Journey {hello monday}
Hello to the last week in September! Our weather started out last week with a foggy, gray, dampish Monday. It progressed into some hot weather and ended the week with perfect weather. Seventies, cool air, not windy, sunny, just absolutely gorgeous. CAN NOT BE BEAT. As always the week winged by. One of the older […]