Good morning. Thought I'd just give you a rundown of our week. Last Sunday noon our church care group came over for lunch. I totally forgot to take a picture. We had a great time. Thanks Dena and Lisa for your coordination.
It rained most of the day Monday. We hauled soybeans to the Mississippi River where they are loaded right on to barges. A barge holds 55000 bushels.
Our rain gauge holds 5 inches. It was full. We had a 5 inch rain in September and now another one in October. The fields are definitely soft and many farmers are making arrangements for duals, 4-wheel drive, or tracks on their combines.
Last Sunday evening our Pastor used an illustration about a flood in the late 1800s that blew out a dam because of lack of maintenance on the spillway where lives were lost. He related that to living and how we are to maintain our Christian living so we don't have blowouts in our lives.
Tuesday our local Christian radio station started their annual shareathon for support for the upcoming year. We so often take things for granted like good gospel music. Thanks for all who supported. Thanks Bev and company for all your efforts for our community.
Wednesday was a shop day and Karl and others got the honey wagon ready for another hauling season. Hope it drys up some.
Alton is a widower and a neighbor who came over for a visit. He spent his career fixing musical instruments. Flutes were his specialty.
Thursday one of our jobs was to go to Walmart and buy every gallon of RV antifreeze they had in stock and winterize our sprayer.
Friday we went back to the field. We started on some custom corn by Barns City. The grain moisture was a little wet. The customer would have had expensive drying charges since he was storing in town so we put that job on hold.
We helped Daryl and his crew do some shingling while the weather was wet.
Remember Bear, the Colorado native who now lives in Iowa and has Rachel as a new owner. We needed a post hole digger from his pen and decided to feed him some apples and give him some attention.
Late Friday we switched back to combining soybeans. The combines are leaving tracks and the grain carts have to stay on high ground.
Yesterday was Mark's birthday. 36 years ago on the night he was born our only vehicle was out of commission and we had to call our neighbors Ken and Linda to borrow their car to go to the hospital.
Stacy brought supper to the field last evening. Then her and the kids rode with Mark in the combine. Their son Ethan ran the grain cart all day.
Their ride was cut short when the combine got really stuck and it took several hours to get it out. My thoughts this morning are that I am so thankful that we were all kept safe again this past week. Many times there were opportunities for bad things to happen and we were watched out for. God is good.
No comments:
Post a Comment