Mike unloading the truck
Monday, August 22, 2005
Harvest in Full Swing!
Aug 17 - 22...The Wheat Harvest is in full swing! It's been hot and dry for the most part and the days have been long. Mike is still averaging 13-14 hr days and has work 8 days straight this go round. It did rain a bit one day last week so they started in the afternoon the next day. The pictures this week are "Mike at work". The one is "dinner (supper in this part of the country) in the field". We take the food to the field and they take about 30 minutes to eat and then back to work until dark or later. The other photos are of Mike unloading his grain truck. Dixie & her parents went to Great Falls on Friday to pick up her brother & niece from California and returned on Saturday. On Sunday we had family pictures taken in the Wheat field and around the tractors - it's hard to get all 13 of us smiling at the same time - it was a challenge for the photographer to get the photo's taken when the sun was just right! That's all for this week.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
On the Job!
Aug 10-16....What's new this week? Dixie began a series of Accupuncture treatments to see if that helps the neck and arm problem. After one treatment, the jury is still out on if it helps any. The next one is tomorrow! The weather got cold & wet (in the 40's at night) a few days last week so it stopped the harvest for a few days. By Sunday it was warm again and they were able to start harvesting the Barley on Monday. Mike got his "on the job training for truck driving" on Monday so he now has 2 days (13hrs each) under his belt. He drives a truck in the field for the combines to unload in and then takes it to a grain bin and dumps it from the truck and augers it into the bin. Of course he got to start with Barley (it's very itchy)! Hopefully there will only be a couple more days of that and then they can move onto the Wheat. The photo this week is Mike standing in the wheat (for our neighbors in Texas - Jim, this is what Montana Wheat looks like!!!)
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