Our Custom Harvesting Travels

We finished up our jobs in Oklahoma and headed for home. This year was hard on Kansas, Nebraska & South Dakota winter wheat. There was always something affecting the crops. A lot of it was due to drought and freezing temps at the wrong time. We knew we didn’t have work and probably couldn’t pick up any work since all the custom harvesters were in the same position. We spent a week and a half at home. It was good to be home and a very welcome break.
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One of the last nights we were home there was a severe weather warning with high winds and possible hail. We scurried around the yard to get everything inside and closed up. We lucked out and only had wind and a very welcome rain. Storm clouds moving over our yard

Storm coming our wayStorm Clouds

We caught up on things at home, sprayed and worked our summer fallow. We headed back to Stockton, KS where we left our equipment.

We stopped in a neat little hobby shop in Stockton, KS. Train towns were setup throughout the store.

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We left Stockton, KS and headed for Hardin, MT. Here are some pictures along the way.

Kansas
Kansas

We stayed overnight in Kadoka, SD.Kadoka, SD

South Dakota

Entering SturgisFull Throttle SaloonDoesn't everyone bring a combine to Sturgis?
The vendors were setup for rally week.Sturgis, SDLeaving Sturgis, SD - It was corvette rally weekend.  Mick was drooling as we drove thru.

We missed our turn outside of Sturgis but checked for width restrictions and found we were good to go so proceeded on thru the black hills.

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Black Hills

Our little Max lost his first tooth this week and another the next day!Max lost his first tooth this week

This was our sunset last night from Hardin, MT.image

Oberlin

Brett is finally saying combine this week but now everything he sees is a combine.

We unloaded at the Decatur County Fairgrounds and setup the campers in the fairgrounds camping area.  A lot of the harvesters stay here.  Our camping neighbors are from North Dakota as well – they have an 11-year-old boy who Max has been hanging out with.  Max has been riding his bike and even rode without his training wheels for a little while.  The first day we were playing outside Max was telling me a little train was coming on the tracks behind our camper.  I thought he was just kidding but sure enough there was a little train we watched go around the tracks a few times then the engineer offered to give us a ride he took us around the tracks a couple of times.  It definitely made Max’s day – he is a big train fan.   Max was so excited – the engineer blew the whistle a few times for him.

This is the view from behind our camper and the tracks we rode on.  

 

Phillipsburg, KS

We moved to Great Bend, KS on wednesday for a couple nights and then up to Phillipsburg, KS.  We were able to check out the zoo in Great Bend while the guys moved equipment.

Mick and the dogs are making a quick trip home to retrieve our tractor.  Harvest should startup in a few days here.

We found a hotel with an rv park, pool and WiFi. We have spent the last few days hanging out by the pool as the equipment gets moved around.  It was 97 here yesterday but only 87 and very windy today. Max will be attending the local vacation bible camp this week for a couple hours a day he had lots of fun the first night.

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