Clean-out

We got the wheat sown the last day of September, and on the way to church today we noticed that it is all up with a nice, full, even stand.

Last Sunday we went to T- town for church to help Daughter #1 serve lunch.  It was a nice day and we enjoyed the worship, fellowship, the lunch, and the leftovers.  I helped run the dishwasher over the noon hour, which was a new experience for me.

We vacuumed out the combine and the platform, and cleaned out the auger cart and truck in preparation for harvesting our Non-GMO soybeans.  It takes a couple of hours, so you don't really want to do it more than once a season.  But after a couple of days of harvest, it rained.  We switched back to corn for a couple of days until soybeans were fit again.  Then we had to vacuum and clean out the equipment all over again.  It's a pain, but the premium is worth it.

Because of several passing showers, harvest is progressing slower than we would like.
On Friday, the old farmer's talented wife ran the combine much of the day because of the absence of our other help.  I spilled a little corn running the new auger cart, but we accomplished what we had hoped to for the day.  We finished the field we were working on and got the last load into the elevator just before closing time.

It is raining again now, and more predicted for tomorrow, so we may have another couple of days of break.

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Ezekiel 4:9