When your fields are gold think Brown
Here are some scenes from this week.
We’re still plugging away around Pond Creek. We picked up another wheat job near Blackwell, OK.
Thursday was HOT 109 plus humidity. We were under a thunderstorm warning on Thursday night with winds up to 75 mph. It was not very fun to drive in. It was a lot like a blizzard in North Dakota only it was red dirt blowing. It down poured for quite a while. Brett and I sat in the vehicle until it let up. This is a picture as I was about to drive into it.
We picked up another job near Pond Creek so we’ll be around for a few more days. On Friday we were working on canola but it was so windy we shut down until the wind settled.
Brett and I headed to Enid, OK for lunch and a little playtime. We ate at a Mexican restaurant – it was really good! We found Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse last year and wanted to make it back this year. Brett headed right for the train table.
Our boys are happy if they have trains, trucks, tractors or planes to play with. They had a ferret out to pet but Brett wanted nothing to do with that.
We headed back just in time for everyone to meet back at the campers. Mick and Max were returning from North Dakota. They flew home on Monday to spray our fields. We started back up on canola and finished Saturday.
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The kids and I went to the farmers market in Enid Saturday morning. They had a potato race setup. We built potato cars and let them go. They didn’t make it very far but we had fun. We enjoyed watching a local band play while the boys ate some cookies from a bakery booth. I bought some sour dill pickles – they really make you pucker. But they are so good! I also bought a casserole carrier to bring meals out to the field and a couple of hand towels that are supposed to get softer after each use. I always try to support the local farmers market if I can find one. The farmers market was pretty busy today. We enjoyed fresh squeezed lemonade on our way to the parking lot. We will be working on wheat tomorrow.
We started wheat in Pond Creek, OK last week. This is the second day we’ve been shut down due to rain on Sunday night.
I drove the combine for a couple of days this week, it’s been 6 years since I’ve cut wheat. I drove a little last fall when we did corn in South Dakota but not all day. It’s so amazing all the improvements in the newer machines. I can’t imagine what it will be like when our boys are older.
A little Bambi was hanging around us all day. She had been separated from her mom and both of them were frantically looking for each other.
We sent Mick and Max home on a plane from OKC to spray our crops in North Dakota on Monday. They will be back by the end of the week.
I took some pics of the elevator in Enid, OK. I didn’t know the elevator was such a big deal until this winter we watched Aerial America Oklahoma on tv and they were showing the elevator. Enid was known as the wheat capital of America. Here’s some more information on Wikipedia.
Here’s some pictures on the outside of Pond Creek, OK.
We should be able to get the combines rolling again in the morning.
