In my previous post, I mentioned that the rain has been like clockwork; raining every day at a certain time, sunshine comes, then it rains again. So while we are waiting on the crops to dry out, we are helping out in the yard. The...
The rain has yet to subside near Gregory, South Dakota. It seems like the rain is on a schedule. Every morning around 4 a.m. it starts to storm, rains for about four hours, then the sunshine comes out. Right around 5 p.m., we have our...
I love this time of year in South Dakota! The gardens are starting to get ready and you cannot beat fresh produce. Some of my favorite things are sweet corn, cucumbers, tomatoes and rhubarb! Mom made an awesome rhubarb dessert that I just had to...
After picking up the combine and head in Dell Rapids, South Dakota we headed to Gregory. Dan and August spent a day cleaning off the dust and spider webs that the combine had collected over the winter in the shed and then greased it. The...
We barely know what a vacation is, but because we had a break between jobs after finishing up in Texas, and waiting on South Dakota wheat we enjoyed a mini vacation. My cousin Travis is in the NAVY and currently stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas. After...
We were hoping to get out in the rolling fields of oats today, but the rain set us back. The forecast was a 40 percent chance of rain, with the high of 74 degrees. The next five days are not looking so good as far...
We made it to South Dakota! Gregory, to be exact. We arrived around 2 pm, set up camp, then headed to Dell Rapids to pick up a combine. Every year we leave equipment in a shed over the winter in South Dakota. We do this...
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Here are a few pictures from our trip from South Dakota, back home to Oklahoma. May is the month of thunderstorms and as you can see, the fields are rather wet. Let's hope we'll be in the fields soon. Corn is planted in this field. I'm guessing...
A wedding and a parts run, odd I know but that's exactly what I've been up to this past week. While waiting for the wheat to ripen around home, we took a road trip to South Dakota. Andy, the son of a customer tied the...
