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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.

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

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.

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

Kansas

We stayed overnight in Kadoka, SD.

South Dakota

Entering Sturgis Doesn't everyone bring a combine to Sturgis?
The vendors were setup for rally week.

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.

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

This was our sunset last night from Hardin, MT.

Update from Oklahoma – Custom Harvesting

Here are some scenes from this week.

We’re still plugging away around Pond Creek. We picked up another wheat job near Blackwell, OK.

Thursday was HOT 109 plus humidity. We were under a thunderstorm warning on Thursday night with winds up to 75 mph. It was not very fun to drive in. It was a lot like a blizzard in North Dakota only it was red dirt blowing. It down poured for quite a while. Brett and I sat in the vehicle until it let up. This is a picture as I was about to drive into it.

Oklahoma

We picked up another job near Pond Creek so we’ll be around for a few more days. On Friday we were working on canola but it was so windy we shut down until the wind settled.

Brett and I headed to Enid, OK for lunch and a little playtime. We ate at a Mexican restaurant – it was really good! We found Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse last year and wanted to make it back this year. Brett headed right for the train table.

Our boys are happy if they have trains, trucks, tractors or planes to play with. They had a ferret out to pet but Brett wanted nothing to do with that.

We headed back just in time for everyone to meet back at the campers. Mick and Max were returning from North Dakota. They flew home on Monday to spray our fields. We started back up on canola and finished Saturday.

The kids and I went to the farmers market in Enid Saturday morning. They had a potato race setup. We built potato cars and let them go. They didn’t make it very far but we had fun. We enjoyed watching a local band play while the boys ate some cookies from a bakery booth. I bought some sour dill pickles – they really make you pucker. But they are so good! I also bought a casserole carrier to bring meals out to the field and a couple of hand towels that are supposed to get softer after each use. I always try to support the local farmers market if I can find one. The farmers market was pretty busy today. We enjoyed fresh squeezed lemonade on our way to the parking lot. We will be working on wheat tomorrow.