Week #11 Catch the Moment 365

March 12 – March 18, 2014

We’ve had an incredibly busy week around here!  I didn’t end up with any decent pictures of the kids, but miraculously I managed to get a picture everyday.  We had a couple thawing days this week, but there is still plenty of snow in northern North Dakota!  Snow must have been my theme for the week.  I have lots of snow pictures! We are ready for it to be gone and enjoy the warm days of spring!

We had a road trip day Wednesday for appointments.  This was one of the many herds of deer we came across.  They were out eating everywhere we looked.  There are a lot of deer in the area this year – I see hundreds in my travels. They really like to cross the road in the dark!

I know this is such an ugly picture, but it is reality.  This is what northern North Dakota looks like in March.  The big pile of snow along the north tree line is my garden – buried!  It’s going to take a while for it to melt and dry up!  I can’t wait!

Coming in for a landing! This is our grass strip runway – even though it is brown, it is the only grass you will see around here this week.  You can see there are some bare spots starting to appear in the surrounding field.   We had wheat growing in the field last year.  Our farm is to the north in the trees.  It won’t take long for the snow to melt if we could have a few warm days.

The sunrise from my kitchen window.  I love our North Dakota sunrises – my husband doesn’t understand my obsession.  He thinks I have way too many sunrise pictures.  Obsession or not, I love watching the sunrise & set here! The theme for the week was lucky.  I feel very lucky and blessed to call North Dakota home and see these beautiful sunrises and sunsets throughout the year.

We had a snow squall move through Sunday afternoon.  Our yard is very protected, but for awhile we had terrible visibility. It came as quick as it went, but had an ugly presence.

Monday night I attended Ladies Ag Night in the next county over.  Katie Dilse – Speaker Extraordinaire drove in from Scranton, ND to speak.  She did a wonderful job energizing and entertaining us!  She made us laugh and cry.  Her message was about maintaining OUR ‘grease zerks’ like we maintain our big rigs, connecting and lifting each other up.  We had a blast!  It was great to hear Katie’s message and connect with other farm women from the area just before our busy spring season gets underway.  Check out her site to see Katie in action at the US Custom Harvesters convention this year http://www.katiedilse.com/

This is our old grain dryer from the 70’s.  Mick has been busy drying our wheat this month.  It is an automatic batch process grain dryer which runs on propane.  It will dry 180 bushels of wheat per batch.  Our wheat has been in an air bin since harvest with 15% moisture.  It needs to be dried down to 13.5% moisture.  The dryer is noisy and needs constant supervision – just like our kids!

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