Going backwards in time......here are a few photos of the beginning of our harvest this year. I haven't taken time to for additional photos but it's on my list of things to do.
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| Moving the combines to Matthews place near Odessa. |
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| I towed one of the headers with the pick up. |
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| One machine parked in Matthews yard. |
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| And two machines parked and ready to go. |
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| How close can you park? |
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| Trucks are also in place and waiting. |
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| But not quite so fast. We bought new headers and they came nicely covered in John Deere green paint. Which is turns out, is somewhat "sticky" at first. The standing wheat would not feed in to the throat of the machine, causing it to flip up over the top of the header. |
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| So, we had to spend several hours grinding off the paint between the cutter bar and the auger. The good news, is that it worked. The bad news is that it was a hot, dirty, icky job. but we got it done. |
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We were all covered in a fine film of green paint. Kermit the Frog came to mind. "It's not easy being green"!
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Our yields are way down this year due to the sever drought that has gripped our region. And as if that were not enough, we had a late from in June that dropped the production in the draws to near zero bushels per acre. This crop had so much potential, and I have to say, that the wheat plants did their best to give us a few kernels at least. So many farmers and ranchers are deeply impacted by this lack of moisture. Fingers crossed and crossed again, that one of these days it will start raining and give some welcome relief to all.
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