Finishing up with Harvest

We finished up our corn harvest at the beginning of November.  We were all very excited to have it done.  Bean harvest took a little bit longer.  It seemed to rain or snow just enough to make the beans to wet to harvest.  We would have a dry spell and then when they were just about ready to go it would rain or snow again.  When they were finally able to go in beans they would run until they could no longer go.  We are talking working until 2-3am when they knew rain or snow was in the forecast.  One Friday night they called because it was 10pm and they were starving and planning to work for several more hours.  I cooked some frozen pizzas, grabbed some chips and drinks and headed to the field.  Diane was nice enough to come sit with the kids.  They were all so excited to have food that they thought the frozen pizza was delicious.  I think if I brought steak or PBJ sandwiches it would have made the same impression.   They were just starved and thankful for food.  That night they finally had to stop with 90 acres to go.  They weren’t happy about it but they couldn’t work any more either!  It rained the next and and made for some tired and grumpy farmers!

On the day before Thanksgiving they were finally able to get the beans out of the field!  We still have field work to do, tile work to do, equipment cleaning and repair, etc.  but we are done with harvest!