A Start

Harvest has started v e r y s l o w l y. The cool weather just doesn't speed up dry-down. We have one small field of corn dry enough to pick and it will be put in our home bin for hog feed. We can only dry a few thousand bushels per day, so we can't pick it all at once. Our other fields are too wet to harvest yet. Still, we have been picking a few loads here and there every day this week, mostly because of our impatience. The neighbors are doing the same. Not much activity yet, but everybody is chomping at the bit. Very few soybeans have been harvested yet either, but they are starting to get close. Right now all three trucks are working, but they are not getting much use.

We made about 9 gallons of apple cider Monday night from 4 bushels of apples. Fresh, sweet cider is hard to beat. The apple sauce is all made, the tomatoes are canned, and it's time to dig the potatoes and onions. If the economy crashes around us, we have food to eat for a while.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Proverbs 6:6-8