I should be in bed

but, as usual, I got my second wind. I will do a quick catch up then off to bed.

The guys finished combining beans Sunday afternoon. Cory hauled 2 loads that wouldn't fit in the bins to the elevator. Becky and the boys came over and we went to the apple orchard, got some great pictures and the boys had fun. Carter loves the boats, Jack loved the apple crisp and ice cream. C

Cory left to go to Stacy's about 5:00, Rob, Bex and the kids left about 6:00, chores, carmel apple for supper (yummy)and then the cloads rolled in. It started to thunder and lighting and then rain. We got a half an inch. Was nice to have the beans done and the combine in the shed. Good thing those boys have so much ambition and push late into the evening.

Here are some pictures of the apple orchard. Funny story. On the way over, Carter got a little bit of the devil in him, reached over and pulled Jack's hair. Well, as you can see in the picture, Jack didn't forget. What goes around comes around Carter

Breakdown day-Friday

Was a good day today. We had some minor breakdowns, a sickle blade broke on the combine. Took a half hour to get that fixed. Just got back home from the field and Cory called, his tractor was heating. I went and picked him up and he blew out the air filters. Later on it heated again, so they ran me to town to get a heat sensor. I then picked Dave up, drove him home to put the sensor in. Got Cory going again, then I drove Dave back up the the quarter so he could start combining again. Harvestland spread fertilizer so Cory could chisel, he finished up Flavia's 40 acres, then got most of the home field done.

Dave was ready to quit at 8:00, but Ryan wanted to keep combining, it is now 10:30 and they are going to finish the field. Cory and Stacy went out to get the last load. We are all going to be dragging tomorrow.

I got to give Suzanne her pictures this morning. Then I basically spent the day running. I made Lasagna for supper, but they haven't eaten yet.

90 degrees today, windy everyday.

The copper stopped tonite. Didn't get to talk to him long, we were just finishing chores. I could almost feel his longing to get into a tractor. You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm outta the boy. I hope his two weeks off works for corn!!! I am praying it works.

Tired............night

The pictures are pretty self explanatory today.

Carter, you love to pretend your driving and especially love to back up. I asked you when you were in the tractor what you want to be when you grow up, I said "do you want to be a policeman like Daddy, or a John Deere fixer like Uncle Ryan"? You said "I just want to be big enough when I grow up to drive tractor all by myself". Sweet boy, time flies so fast, you will be "big enough" before you know it!

Silo Filling

A good day. We got up early (only 10 minutes, but hey, at 5:50, ten minutes is 10 minutes), did chores and got the big silo ready to go in the air. I ran back and forth from the barn to the house 4 times to check on Carter and Jack. Everything worked out perfect. Carter was up the 4th time, I just put his favorite show on (calliou) and told him I would be in the barn. He was good with that. Got our work done and he was still happily sitting on the couch watching his show. After breakfast Carter and I baked an apple cake. I peeled the apples the night before so it was fast and easy. Carter got to go with Dave hauling manure, that helped him with his tractor fix. After dinner we went out and watched the big corn chopper and 3 wagons pull up to fill our silos. Matt, John Deprez, Joe Zueg and Ryan were here. Ry took off work early to help, which was really a huge help to Dave. They worked on filling silo till rain caused them to stop. If it would have given us one more hour we would have been finished.

I made chili for supper with my tomatoes from the garden. Yummy!

Here is a picture of Jack enjoying his first sucker. Carter was having fun dancing for me while I took pictures, Ryan blowing the first load of silage up.