More harvest

Kelly and Susan helped hook the header trailer to the truck hitch.

Two heads are better than one.

We did it!

Garrett looks like he has a ten-gallon cowboy hat.

The outlaws - Anna and Garrett

Garrett

My ride for much of harvest - yes, it has AC.

Jordan - the grain cart driver's daughter

Kelly found a little shade for iphone time.

Garrett and Anna talking through plans on what to do next.

Hallie

The next generation of farmers

Harvest filed supper is a lot like sitting around the campfire and telling stories.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn loves to move the chairs from one place to the next.

Garrett gave cousin Brooklyn a hand in moving her chair to join the other kids.

Garrett went from ten-gallon cowboy hat to a pirate look.

More iphone time for Kelly

Finally some harvest photos

A windrow of wheat straw before Kendall and the baler arrive.

A wavy field of ripe beautiful wheat

Matt driving the combine.

This combine header is old, tattered, rusty and repaired and has probably seen better days - just like me.

The grain cart driver and and his daughter

Sweet Nancy

Matt

Joey

Even in the harvest field there is time to play a game on the iphone. Garrett had just returned from 4-H camp and didn't want to take off his camp ID bracelets.

Sunday was hot, dry and dusty

Leah and Jody visited us

Sweet, sweet baby Leah

 

Leah and Jody visited Susan's farm on Monday and Tuesday.  Most of this post will be of Leah with a few other photos here and there.

Joey and his three kids, it looks as if they don't want him to leave.

This is the summer of the digital device. We seem to spend lots of time on iphones and such.

You can always count on a baseball game in the front yard. Sam was able to talk Jody into playing. Jody soon learned that Sam and Garrett make up rules as they play - such as where first base is.

Anna is very athletic and plays ball, but today she preferred to work on her monkey bar skills.

Kramer is an all-American dog!

Leah's hat for the Royal Wedding

Are they checking commodity prices or playing games?

Just as sure as a baseball game will break out on any given day, so, too, will the kids spend time tickling the keys on great, great grandma Kaufman's piano.  She never let us (her grandkids) play on this piano unless we were serious about playing.  This is one thing that might make my grandma Kaufman roll over in her grave!  Times do change....

I felt pressured to post since it has been a while

Dear Nancy is a cow puncher!

Sometimes life on the farm requires you to hold the fertilizer tube while filling the planter. I think it this was one of the few moments of rest Joey gets.

This reminds me of the saying 'make hay while the sun shines' because when the conditions are right for farming, you must go, go, go.  Joey is in one tractor planting while Matt is in the other tractor spraying.

Even though it looks like Matt and Joey are doing nothing, each one is making an adjustment on the planter by turning a nob at the end of an arm's reach.

More adjusting