Chopped

No, not the Food Network show, our corn! It got chopped today. Well, one field did at least. We need something to feed the cattle we'll have around here this winter, you know.

 The boys have been asking for days, maybe weeks, when the corn would be chopped and turned out that today was the big day.

 A local crew did the work for us, Russ Chops (although Russ actually prefers to drive truck...) ran one chopper and five trucks to do the job.

 Choppers are mesmerizing....the machine simply eats the corn and spits out little pieces and it's FAST.

 Lots of teeth.

 Ben and the boys road along for a while,

 which gave me a chance to hang out and take pictures. :-)

 It was interesting to listen to the hum of the chopper, the rumbling of the trucks coming and going from the field and the staccato of the chopper honking at the trucks.

 It was a lovely evening, warm and breezy, sunny and the air was full of the scent of corn.

 The ride came to end, just before the crew finished the field.

 Back at the farm, the farmers took a break

 while the little farmers got busy playing in the silage. That's Noah way up at the top of the pile and Levi's that dark blob in the bottom.

 Mmmmmm....silage.

 It was a great evening. It was hard to come inside and put the boys to bed. It felt like a summer evening that we could/should have spent outside until dark. But instead we had to cut the fun short to try and get our boys to bed.