From This Front Porch

This picture was taken by Randy from our front porch on Sunday. Randy and Colter rode in one of the combines on Saturday for a round. The driver told him this field was going about 90 to 100(!!!!)

We thought you might enjoy seeing this Grandpa Larry! Glad your harvest is done now... thought of you often.

Alison and family

Harvest 2011

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow.

Sow an act, and you reap a habit.

Sow a habit and you reap a character.

Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
~James Allen

We were not able to go home for harvest this year (insert very sad face) because it was so late this year in Eastern Montana. So, we have been enjoying our own harvest here as spectators instead of as players. It's happening all around us now. We watched the soil being prepared and the seed being planted in the spring. We watched the airplanes and helicopters spraying this summer and the big center pivots going around and around. Now, we are watching the harvest.

The above pictures come from the farm of Maya's best school friend Boe. His family farms all around us. Randy and I take turns bringing the kids on 4-wheeler rides in the mountains and country roads around our house in the evenings. Last night it was Maya and my turn and we took these pictures. Maya kept saying, "It sure smells like Harvest." and "It just feels like we're at Harvest." We just had to stop and watch because it helps us, in a little way, enter in to this years harvest.

Alison

Familiar Fields-Harvest 2010

Home for the Harvest

Tall buildings outlined by approaching dawn,

Like the silo silhouette bein' slowly drawn,
On the skyline scene from the farm-yard lawn,
And the front porch from which I have gone.

I thought the city would give to me,
A life of ease, a life carefree,
I try to deny that I long to be,
Home for the harvest, naturally.

Home for the harvest is where I'll be,
Home where my family is needing me,
Home where my heart can wander free,
Home for the harvest, naturally.

Does the moon still rise to the coyotes call,
And hang in the skies o'er the wheat so tall,
Like an old yellow hat on the hook in the hall,
When I'm home for the harvest in the fall?

Is the air still heavy with approaching dusk,
Is it hot and thick with the combine dust,
Is supper still cheered, are the breakdowns cussed?
Get me home for the harvest, yes I must.

Home for the harvest is where I'll be,
Home where my family is needing me,
Home where my heart can wander free,
Home for the harvest, naturally.

I miss planting, branding, the old swing tree,
Home for the harvest, I will be.

~Chuch Suchy
www.chuchsuchy.com

Around the Farm

We came over east to the farm to help Dad with harvest again this year. We're here for the week but haven't been doing any harvesting yet. It's been too wet following showers through the weekend and off and on through the last few days. The men have used this down time to do some mechanic work and maintenance on the machinery in the machine shed.

We got here on Saturday and spend the weekend playing with cousin's Evan and Lana before they left early Monday morning...
Riding bikes and reading comic books is always more fun with cousins...
We found some chokecherries yesterday!
The four wheeler has been getting some good use...
I love this picture. Everyone looks SO intent on the task at hand...
Here are the girls sitting on the idle auger in front of the empty grain bins...
Kyla has been looking for pretty rocks and washing them off...
And even though the harvest has been held up, no one has been bored...

And what have I been doing? Reading the Janette Oke- Love Comes Softly Series, cooking meals, playing with my kids, going 15 miles to town for groceries, taking pictures, enjoying reading everyone's comments on my last post, and I even got to talk to Carin a couple times on the phone. If her poor little man wasn't sick right now they would be here right now and we would be visiting face to face while our kids played their hearts out... but maybe next time!

Is there any other way I would rather spend my summer vacation?

I think not.

And that's the news from this farm.

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