Rides

This week was "rides" week. Cliff had his first combine ride. Kandace, Carli, and Clayton rode also. Yesterday Jesse was here a few hours to ride the combine and tractors. Chase and his dad rode a couple rounds. In the evening Kacie and Kray showed up from Indiana for rides just before we called it a day. It's fun to watch little boys get their first ride on machinery. We forget how big, noisy, and impressive it must be to a little kid. Michelle even went for a ride this week. Of course Troy, Trent, and Tate also had turns, but it's old hat to them.

In general, we had a very good week harvesting. We made strong progress on the soybeans, and the corn is finally dry enough to go at it aggressively. We did have our first breakdowns this week. The arm that drives the cutterbar on the soybean platform broke, so we were down about a day. We had to wait a half day for parts, then we had to totally disassemble the drive side of the platform and remove the wobble box to replace the arm. A brake line broke on one of the trucks, so we were without it for a few days, but that didn't slow us down any.

It was a long week and we are very thankful for the day of rest.

So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 16:30