Frosty Morning

Baxter and I got up early this morning.  When I looked outside there frost on the roof of the chicken house and the draws were also white with frost.  It was quite pretty.  We walked "the loop" from the house, down to the pasture and then back up our lane before coming inside to warm up!

White frost covered the draw to the north west of our house.  I took this image from the office window.

The sun is making an appearance earlier and earlier!

The chicken house roof was also white with frost.

This draw, behind our house to the south, was really white.

Frozen water droplets on the leaves of the wheat plants.  

Daffodils, Baxter, frost and the Mielke/Funk road sign!

Sunrise lighting up the barn.

Reynald started seeding our spring wheat crop yesterday and did a little more today, until he ran out of seed and fertilizer.  We had a couple extra helpers this morning, to fill seed and fertilizer and diesel in the tractor.  We wouldn't object if they were around all the time!!!!

Filling the air cart with fertilizer, with the seed truck waiting in line to fill next.

David filling Arthur with fuel.

And now checking the boots of the drill to make sure seed and fertilizer are coming out of each opener.

Roni Jo had to crawl in to the back of the seed truck to shovel out the last little bit of seed.

David and Ron watching Roni work!

Furrows in a portion of the newly seeded field.

You can see the kernels of wheat after I have scraped away the soil.  We don't plant the seeds as deep under the soil surface in the spring since the moisture level is so near the surface.  Reynald and I are constantly debating the seed rate.  I think he plants to thick!  He disagrees, as is evidenced by the number of seeds in this image!!!

Seeded ground on the left, un-seeded on the right.  

This has been an unusual spring weather wise.  We are at least two weeks late getting the seed in the ground, due to the rain that has been falling.  This coming week we are expecting temperatures in the upper 70's.  That will make both spring and winter wheat grow like crazy!