Going to Extremes

I had a fairly easy weekend since we had a couple of rain showers on Friday night so didn't get back to cutting until Saturday afternoon and that wasn't much because it was still too wet.  Jared was here for the weekend so that gave me time to catch up at home.  We did some fencing on Sunday morning and then they started cutting again in the afternoon.  Yesterday I had to "get my Bob fix" and go to work at my real job.

I made up for it today.  The morning started kind of slow since we had fog and dew.  M and I checked fences and gates so we could let cows out into the fields they finished cutting last night.  They started cutting on some of the neighbor's wheat since he had a bin with air that they could put it in if it was too wet.  The land there is sandy and they think there was some chemical damage to the crop so it wasn't running to good.  I had some time to read my book while waiting for the combines to get full.

We had lunch and moved down to Richland where there was better wheat and from then on I didn't have much time to read--what a change!  The wheat there was running close to 50 bushels to the acre so it didn't take long for the combines to fill up.  I could hardly keep up with the grain cart.  By the time I got the cart dumped on the truck the combines were ready to dump again.  C had work to do on the grain elevator so was having trouble getting trucks to us as fast as we needed them.  I got in trouble because I loaded a truck too heavy and I had a little spillage on another truck.  J told me it would cost me a case of beer for every bushel I put on the ground.  I didn't take the time to check how bad it was until later and there probably wasn't even a shovel full on the ground so I don't think I need to buy beer.  It looked worse to me at the time it happened.  One of these days I'll get it all figured out.....I hope!

When we were checking gates this morning I was trying to help M get one open that he had used a tarp strap to close.  I pulled on the little bit of rope that was still on the gate post and it was rotten and came off in my hand and I fell over backwards, flat on my back.  At first, I felt like I had whiplash but later realized that my back felt better today than it has in weeks.  M says he'll knock me on my ass weekly if that's all it takes to make me feel better.  What a guy!