Combines unloading wheat in the field 

Mike & Shay at the Big Bud Tractors 

Movin & Working!

Aug 2-9.....We have been keeping busy this past week. Mike continues to clean out grain bins, prepping them for the wheat and barley and mowing grass around the property and local airport. Dixie packs and cleans in prep for her parents move. We went to Great Falls this past weekend and helped Dixie's brother and sister-in-law move their furniture from their house that just sold into their new condo. While there Dixie and her sister shopped for items for Mom and Dad's new home. Lots of movin going on around here! They got started with the harvest of the Winter Wheat last week and finished that up last night. We had a rain shower last night & this morning so they will not be able to start on the barley today as planned. Oh the fun of harvesting!!! The Spring Wheat is still about a week away from being ready to harvest. This was a week of occasions - our grandson, Bailey in North Carolina turned 10 on the 1st, our nephew, Shays 1st Birthday on the 2nd and Mom & Dad's 52nd Anniversary today, the 9th. The photos this week are of Mike & Shay (our nephew) in front of the tractors and the combines in the field. We took supper out to the field last night so I took a picture of the combines while unloading. Pictures of the wheat field to come next week.

Mike in Beaver Creek 

View from our hike - Doug, Fran & Kelly 

Sunset in the Bear Paw Mountains

Sunset in the Bear Paw Mountains

Mini Vacation in the Mountains!

"Jul 20 - 31...We took a mini vacation last week to Beaver Creek Park in the Bear Paw Mountains, which is about 80 miles from Dixie's parents. It is south of Havre and is the largest county park in the US. Dixie's parents, brother and sister-in-law, and family friends all took their campers as well. We had a regular caravan! We enjoyed 5 days of sitting around the campfire, hiking, fishing and just plain relaxing. The weather has been in the 90's and even hit a 100 a couple of days. The temperature while camping in the mountains was about 10 degrees cooler than everywhere else so it was a good place to be. The hot weather is quickly ripening the grain crops so it looks like the harvest will start soon. Mike's job tomorrow will be cleaning out and prepping grain bins- a dirty job but somebody has to do it. Dixie continues to pack Mom & Dads house items. The photo's this week are from our camping trip. The sunset was while we were fishing on the lake (Mike did finally catch one small brook trout while fishing in the creek). I intended on getting a picture of Mike with his big catch but we ate him before I got to it). The others are of the creek and the mountains while hiking. Next weeks blog pictures will hopefully come from the wheat field!