Wheat harvest is hard work. It's certainly changed a lot over the years and it's not nearly the physical strain that it once was. So it feels a bit ridiculous to claim it as hard work, but it is. We are all feeling tired. Long days packed with activity, the stress of things not going quite right and the push to get all the fields cut is just hard.
It's fun though, too. The boys have had a wonderful time this year riding along and learning new things about how all the parts of harvest fit together.
I've had quite a few struggles juggling all the truck and grain cart rides the boys want with the amount of time there is in an evening (getting home at 5:30 from work and getting to bed before 9 just doesn't work well with harvest).
Ben's been pretty busy with driving truck and more recently planting double-crop soy beans. The boys miss having him around but thankfully we can still go out and find him while he works.
Noah took it upon himself to help direct Austin as he unloaded the grain cart,
and then supervised as the grain unloaded.
Many things haven't gone perfectly this wheat harvest, but we pray that our last day or so of harvest and soy bean planting goes well.
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