Harvest 2009, days 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17

So, the last post ended on Friday with day 11.
Saturday and Sunday we didn’t do any cutting either. Everyone was getting very anxious — and crabby too.
Finally we were able to start late Monday morning. The rain had made a lot of the wheat lay down in the fields. But the combines seemed to do [...]

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Harvest 2009, days 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11

ARGH!!!! Meant to keep this a lot more updated, but got too busy and fell behind. So,  I’m condensing about six posts into one.
On Sunday, we tried cutting again in the afternoon and the wheat was dry enough we could cut. I’ve picked Sundays to be fried chicken (from Albertson’s) day. I thought we were [...]

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Harvest 2009, days 4 & 5

Time to rest and relax and recharge. We got a 1/2 inch of rain yesterday morning, and it’s been relatively cool since then. So everything is still too wet to cut.
Of course, as my brother pointed out, that means when it warms up and dries out (probably by tomorrow or Monday) then all the winterwheat [...]

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Harvest 2009, day 3

It was supposed to rain last night, but didn’t. As of this morning NOAA said we had an 80% chance of rain today and tonight and 70% chance tomorrow and tomorrow night. It was cloudy and a bit muggy today, so the wheat straw was still tough. But we cut almost all day and the [...]

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Harvest 2009, day 2

Cut all day today, just our combine still. Custom cutters may show up tomorrow or the next day, assuming we don’t get rained out tonight. Cut the fields around the house. This combine was bought used a couple years ago, but is “new” for us. It’s also a Case IH, which is different for us [...]

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Harvest 2009, day 1

Started cutting today around 2 PM. Thought it would be a bit green, but it was 12% moisture, which is good and even a bit on the low side. So far, it’s just our combine, but the custom cutting crew we use showed up in the afternoon, said they had gotten rained out in Geraldine [...]

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Facebook — IRC in fancier clothes

By IRC, I am referring to Internet Relay Chat. If you follow that link to Wikipedia, you’ll see that IRC has had some important milestones during the years of its existence, such as being used to report on the 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union.
But IRC has always been notorious as being a [...]

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