Harvest Time

Wheat harvest is always a special time on the farm. The farm comes to life and the work day extends. The dust rolls on and on.

Just as harvest was starting, Noah went to Camp Mennoscah! He ate a green sno cone on the way and ended up with a VERY green tongue. :-)

Each year I try to get a photo of him outside his cabin...this was all he would let me get. He was putting sunscreen on and would.not.stop for a photo...

Back at the ranch, the wheat was drying and harvest rolled on.

I used some creative energy to send Noah 3 letters in one day this year...he said he had to join a group singing a song to get his mail that day at camp. :-)

Levi cared for this little Box Turtle for quite a while. He named him Tom and after he had to clean out the water several times, Levi decided it was time to let Tom go.

Levi kept up on taking care of his tadpoles...some of them grew to be frogs and were released.

This harvest photo was taken just before the heavens opened and rain POURED down and we maybe left my dad at the field in the storm.  Oops. Sorry dad!!

On Friday's in summer I'll often take the boys to the coffee shop in Goessel for a treat.

We harvested potatoes and onions from the garden. Digging potatoes is the only thing the boys will eagerly help with in the garden. Ben's truck bed proved to be an ideal drying location this year. He was busy harvesting wheat, never using his truck, and Wilbur couldn't bother the produce!

Harvest got delayed by another rain...

The mulberries were beautiful this year!

These three are amazing together, especially when they're getting along! :-)

Once harvest was about half done, Ben hopped in the tractor to plant soybeans.

And one night I rode along for a while, it was a lovely little tractor date.

The view from the top of our new grain bin! It's very handy (literally) that it has a stairway and railing all the way to the top.

Freaky, thankfully harmless, harvest accident...the door of the tractor shattered one day. The glass made for a pretty picture, but it certainly was a big mess to clean up.

Then Ben got to spend one evening in a door-less tractor. It was fixed the next morning.

Levi, in a very sweet moment, helped to cut flowers for our post-harvest celebration dinner table.

You mix all of that harvest action in with all the other activities that happened in June and it was a whopper of a month!