Back to work

The men are back in the corn field today! They moved over to Chambers' and will cut as much as they can before the next rain.  Our next big chance is Tuesday night in to Wednesday.  Hopefully, they can harvest a lot of corn before then.

Routine maintenance

The men are spending the down time doing some light maintenance on the combine...under the watchful eye of the "boss," of course.

Quentin is hoping that the fields dry out enough by Friday to get rolling on corn harvest again.

Rain

More rain.  We had 2.6" last night through about lunchtime today.  Since things were just borderline dry before, we are very, very wet again now!  I guess the harvest crew gets a few days off.

Soybean harvest

The men were able to get all the early beans harvested today!  They finished just in time as we can see lightning in the west now.  Soybean harvest is a slightly slower pace, and they were able to keep up well with just one truck driver (Ken) and a grain cart (Paul) to haul the beans out of the field.  (I got a day off!)  Quentin is very happy to have these beans out of the field so that he does not have to worry about them shattering.

The rest of the beans are changing fast, but harvest will be awhile yet for them.

Late beans turning

Beat the rain?

We are in a race against the rain today.  Yesterday, we were able to finish the corn on Steeby's.  It was a bit soft and there were still a few mud puddles to avoid, but it went pretty well.  The truck just stayed on the drive near the road and the grain cart stayed mostly at the field edges.  No one got stuck.  Yeah!  Hopefully, we did not compact the field too much.

Still some wet spots

Quentin has the corn header off the combine this morning so I would guess he is going to try to get those early soybeans out of the field today before the rain.  We will just have to keep one eye on the sky (or radar) and changes our plans as needed.

Progress

We had another good day today.  Quentin finished cutting down at Rose late afternoon, and then cut the last of Marilyn's, a small field near the house.  Tomorrow should be good harvest weather, but a front is still expected to move through some time on Saturday.  Quentin will have to evaluate the early beans tomorrow to see if they need to come out before the rain or if we should stay focused on corn.

Feeling blessed!

Yesterday ended up being a short combine day.  They ran in to mud on Steeby's and quit by 7pm.  Today, they decided to try down at Rose.  We started about noon, and Quentin is still out now (8pm).  I expect he'll run out of truck space for the night soon.  There were some soft spots in the field, but the trucks stayed on the road and let the grain cart/combine go back and forth across the field. 

Quentin was feeling blessed today.  We had two truck drivers, a grain cart operator and a Grandma willing to babysit for much of the day.  We can move a lot of corn that way!  Unfortunately, the grain cart driver had to shut it down by 5 and go back to being a soccer mom (literally), but we were VERY thankful to have our extra truck driver up from Texas!

I don't do selfies, but...can you believe they let me drive this thing!?!