Yesterday about mid afternoon we ended up at the office after getting rained out harvesting. We enjoyed listening and sharing stories over coffee about the weeks activities.
Communication is a huge part of relationships. Of organization. Of productivity. We continually use our business band 2 way radios in the combines, in the tractors, and in the semis to communicate. To plan. To direct. And even to kid each other once in a while. Our three larger combine's yield monitors are also connected by internet and record a fields production as a whole and not individual machines, allowing all operators including the grain cart operators if they choose to observe in real time each others productivity and progress.
We had a beautiful and busy week of harvest progress. We spent the week mostly finishing custom acres up north and had moved Friday night looking forward to being closer to home. So when the rain finally stopped us it felt like extra time even though we have a little harvest left.
On Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday in between a funeral and other obligations Brian and his boys found some extra time to harvest he and Becky's soybean crop while I hauled the grain to market at a rail terminal near Fairfield.
Several piles of grain are showing up at local elevators meaning two things. A good crop and harvest is about finished.
Mike and Mark completed the dirt work on our helper Andy and Amara's hog finisher and the cement crew was right behind them pouring the pit.
Congratulations to Layton and Dee who had their son baptized last Sunday. Layton has been giving us a hand after he had he and his families harvest completed.
So before Jackson left for preschool with his backpack he took some extra time and helped his dad put a little diesel in the auger tractor. Thanks for the picture Emily.
This week the PC football team won a couple of tournament games. They are headed to the Uni Dome for state action Friday at 10 am. It's been fun to watch Mike and Suzanne's son Cody play both defense and offense this year.
In 2009 our family did the dirt work on PC's football field and Cody ran the sheepsfoot to compact the moved soil before we installed the drainage. It's pretty cool that 9 years later he is playing on the field he helped build.
Wednesday morning was Rosie's funeral at the Catholic church. It was a privilege for the boys to carry her to church and then the cemetery next to her son John who died in 1986, her husband Daryl who died in 2003, and her daughter Maxine's memorial stone who died in 2006.
When Jan and I got married in 1975 I went to Howard at Farm Service and asked for custom work to support my new family. Howard sent me to Daryl and Rosie to spray he and his brother Tom's crops. One fall morning in 1977 about 6:30 I received a call from Daryl obviously on a kitchen wall dial party phone. He asked if Jan and I would be interested in farming he and Rosie's farm. It was 400 acres and it doubled our operation. Those 50/50 acres kept us going during the farming troubled times in the 1980s. God had this time planned the day I was born.
He has this fall season and today's time planned as well. Don't forget to turn your clocks back. You have an extra hour this morning.
Our time here in this life, in this season, today, and the folks we spend it with is a gift. Use your extra time wisely and live life intentionally. Thanks for the visit.
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