Best $2.50 Ever Spent

 

Ryan likes to use a head lamp that clips on his hat after it gets dark.  I was shopping and shopping and of course the kind he likes are like $15.  But these super cool ones with head straps are only 2.50.  We stocked up on a few and they have been fun entertainment at our house!

Justin is adjusting Claries for the picture, what a nice big brother!

    

If we have your name for Christmas I already got your kids gifts!  HAHA!

Harvest Time!

Harvest is heavily upon us.  We are harvesting all but one crop RIGHT NOW!  (Sugar beets, which we could be, they have opened for early beets thank goodness we don't need to dig any early!)Seriously, we need to work on timing!  We have just started cutting hay, which I GOT to swath for a couple of days, (you know we are desperate when I get asked to help!)  We have been going on Grain harvest for over a month and still have a couple of weeks left of that.   Corn chopping is in full swing (we have that custom hired) THANKFULLY!   To top it all off Potatoes have started in Richfield and down on the farm.  We will go straight to Arco when we finish in Richfield so hopefully start there Monday.  We just LOVE having the harvestings going on around us, it isn't half as fun when Ryan has to commute hours away.  The kids BEG to go help with potatoes, which we have everyday, well when we haven't been swathing.  Ashley asked if the bus could drop her off at the cellar today after school so she could just go straight to work!  Hopefully she will be so ambitious when she is really big enough to help…..

Our corn crop is almost in the books until another year!  It has been fun to watch them chop it.  Equipment sure has improved since I was a little girl when dad used that little pull behind chopper.  These guys fly through the corn like nothing, Ryan says they do 10 rows at a time, I think dad did 3?  I don't know but it wasn't many!

It is amazing to see them shoot that corn across the pivot practically, they have to be a good aim!  We haven't enjoyed the rumbling of trucks WELL after 10 pm, makes going to bed hard for kids and all of the dust is dusty, but the rest is still fun!  I have got my own fall work I should be doing, I have three boxes of peaches and two pears I should be doing instead of this but,  awww, they will still be there tomorrow!

Big Green Tractor

The kids and I have been enjoying Ryan farming around us the last couple of days. Last fall we bought the neighboring farm so now we own as far as the eye can see (almost) out my kitchen window. It is going to be so pretty when all of that corn is growing tall this summer! The kids and I went out to ride and have a picnic, but they didn't last 20 minutes and were both (all three) lulled asleep by the big green tractor!