The weekend was perfect to be in the field and Daryl took full advantage of it. He started out working on taking out the corn, but then he needed to switch the combine heads and do beans because they were dry.
And when he changes combine heads – well that’s where I come in. I NEVER volunteer for the job because these last couple of times that I’ve helped I’ve been in the cab pressing levers and stuff. So when Daryl asked if I’d help, I said sure (but secretly was hoping that I didn’t have to go in the combine cab)
Guess what? I had to go in the combine cab.
But it wasn’t too bad this time and what he has to do is to line up the head (in this case the bean head) and then make sure all the gears will match up. He’s pretty good at it and it really didn’t take too long and soon I was back home again working on my weekend to do list.
First things first – laundry.
My Mom always says that she thinks that we do a lot of laundry – and I guess she’s right. But with the sun shining and it’s the weekend, I really wanted to get the clothes line full. It’s such a great feeling when there is actually nothing in the house that needed to be washed at the end of the weekend, but now I wish it was all stored away in the right spots. I even took everything out of the drawers where we store our chore clothes and washed all of that. Now I don’t know why I washed it to possibly throw it away, but it’s all clean and ready to be sorted. The key word here is ‘ready’ to be sorted 🙂
So getting back to the soybeans, when I took dinner out to Daryl I was going to ride around for a couple of rounds until I almost got half way up the combine ladder when Daryl said that it’s pretty dusty and I’ll need to take a shower when I get home. OK, change of plans. I snapped a couple of pictures and was on my way.
At the end of the weekend Daryl was happy to say that all our beans are done.
Well for me, other than doing a lot of laundry this weekend, I also was able to get the garage painted. I haven’t had a chance to take an ‘after’ picture yet, so I’ll see if I can get that done to show you how good it looks now. And I also mowed all our lawn for hopefully the last time this year. They are talking about a hard frost in a couple of days, so I sure hope that it will stop the mowing season once and for all!