more rain, fat, and marshall.........

drizzle, rain, drizzle, will it never stop??? Chores, breakfast, shower and onto Marshall to join Weight Watchers. I figure it will be cheaper to pay them then to buy new, bigger clothes. I am giving them and myself 16 weeks to see what they (and I) can do.

Home, chores, pictures and bed..............

Rain, camping, honeymooners............

Rained again........up to 4 inches now. Time to start building the Ark. Chores in the morning, a good nap, wasted much of the day away. Chores, and down to Sanborn where Rob, Bex, Jason, and Amanda were camping. Ryan, Robyn and the kids were down for the afternoon also. It is so pretty down there, lots of trails to 4 wheel on, and a nice little lake. I'm sure it is man made from the gravel piles, but the water is so clear and there are fish in it. By evening Jack decided he wasn't tenting so he and Bex headed home. Little Kate was coming down with something so she and Amanda headed home. It was just Rob, Jake and Carter who spent the night. Can't wait to hear how that went for Carter.

Got a call from Cory and Stacy. They are now back in MN and were anxious to head home. Stacy picked up a bug in Mexico and had a dandy chest cold. Sounds like they had a good time.

3.5 inches of rain so far......

Woke up Friday with 3.50 inches of rain in the gauge. Crazy thing is I slept through the storm that went on all night.
Addisyn and Fynn hung out here today. Little Fynn is getting over some broncial issues.......We had fun. Went for a walk, got ourselves all muddy, but it was worth it. Had to see the "really really deep hole".
Woke up again this morning to more rain...........

time to start posting again

Gearing up for a long winter of calving. Thought I would start keeping track on here. We brought in our first heifer xmas eve day. She walked right into the barn, then took us an hour to get her in a stanchion. She had her calve the next day. Calf didn't make it, looked like her little neck got twisted. Heifer is a honey.

Brought in two more heifers this morning. Bull is acting up. He wants to get Dave in the worst way.

Tuesday

Started early. Dave decided to pick the other corn dryer full, so will be a big work day. Cory here at 6:00am, helping Dave with morning chores, getting machinary ready.........

They worked last night till 9:00. Ryan came over and fixed something that was wrong with the combine. Rob stopped in for a chat, he had been working for Ron all day.

I just try to keep the home fires burning. Did sneak to town and get some groceries and take Burn's children's pictures. Wow, beautiful blue eyed kids.

Time to go stoke the "homefires".

Another big day ahead.

Starting corn harvest

Wayyyyyyyyyyy late. Started yesterday, even though the corn is wetter then it has ever been, just have to start somewhere. Cory helped haul loads until he had to work, Ryan came about 11:00 and stayed till 7 combining. Had to shut her down then, enough wet corn in the bin at once. Corn is testing about 22-26% moisture. Wet, wet, wet.

Cory, Stacy and I snuck away for an hour in the afternoon and finished up engagement pictures. Light was perfect, got some great ones. I am happy now!

Robyn came over with the kids, tried to do some kiddo shots, but no go. They went and road in the combine with Ry. All stayed for supper. Had ribs cooking all day, yummy

Today dave is out chopping stock, then him and Cory are going to get the last 3 loads out of the field. That will officially finish up the 40 acres by Strand.

It was trying to stay sunny today, but that didn't last long.

Safe harvest the most important thing!

harvest day 3

Today we took out about 60 acres of beans. Had to stop because beans were not fit on one side. Cory stayed and helped till 8:30, Ry came after work and stayed till 8:00. Good day. Woke up to rain. Going to be a lazy day today. Shoulders hurt.