harvest will begin on Thursday of next week

It’s getting closer!!!

Dad came home and said the corn is 14.2% dry….we can begin!!!

Oh, wait! Not yet!

The Elevator guys said the farmers can’t bring in any corn until after the audit. Their audit will be done on the 30^th, so the corn can come in on the 31^st.

YIPPEE!!!

Fuzzy and I LOVE corn harvest. We work with Mom and we help Dad. There is always a reason to be going somewhere…out the field, in the big truck, (we don’t get to ride on the corn combine, but Mom does and of course Dad does.) But Fuzzy and I sit and wait at the end of the rows.

Er……..Fuzzy waits

NOT ME!!!! There is lots of news out there and I want to know what it is!

Dad says he will start combining on the 31^st and haul on the 1^st; too many farmers are loading and storing on the semi-s and the grain trucks already. This will make for a very long day at the dumping station that first day. Also, the Elevator guys say they are closing down at 2 on that first day (meaning they will close the gate at 2:00 p.m. …if your truck is in the gate and washed you can stay and unload, if not you have to come back first thing (5:00 in the morning) the next day.

Dad says it takes a couple or so days before everyone gets into a routine. Always it’s a race against time…you can’t combine until the dew is off the corn, then you combine until the dew sits on….way into the night. The trucks go down, sit in line and wait until their turn, then come back and get filled up and head back down…the combine goes up and down and up and down.

Hopefully before any type of storm comes in.

Fuzzy and I go where ever we can whenever we can.

Fuzzy-and-I

This is Fuzzy and Mom and I on the four-wheeler

Sun-in-the-eyes

This is me with the sun in my eyes… shish!

The cats don’t help….Monkey stays inside so her fur doesn’t get mess up and Sammy likes to hang out by the catnip. (Sure he does a good fair of hunting mice, but that doesn’t count. He doesn’t really HELP like Fuzzy and I 🙂 🙂 )

We went with Mom and Dad to town to take down a corn sample from another field so Dad knows which field to start on, and she wanted to get some milk.

We like sitting in the truck at the grocery store…lots of people and lots of really nice smells. Dad waited with us so someone wouldn’t try to take me…I’m way too friendly you see.

Mom got us some really yummy bones