Daryl got done with beans and had them hauled into the Co-op late last night, so today he was going to ‘open the field’ and take the first rounds of corn out. This way he can see if the combine with the corn head is working OK and he can check out the corn field. This isn’t something that he needed my help with, so I picked up my Mom this morning and we were off to town. The weather was just perfect for a drive and so we took the long way there. It’s normally about an hour drive and I think it took us about 1 1/2 hours. First thing is to get something to eat. I know… that doesn’t really sound like shopping, but we were both hungry so we found a restaurant that we both liked and got our bellies wayyyyy too full! Next stop – the mall. Mom had some shoes that she needed to return, so I took them to return and left her to see if she could find a couple of things for herself while I was gone. She had great luck and I was happy that she found some stuff. After hanging out in the mall for awhile, off to the new craft store that just opened up in town. I didn’t need anything in the mall, but I was anxious to check out this store. I had a coupon (no surprises here right?) and I was in business. When we walked in, Ma asked if I needed a cart. I told her that there was no way that I needed a cart and grabbed one of those plastic baskets. Yea, it didn’t take long and I knew that this was a mistake. Do you know that those baskets really don’t hold that much? I found tons of stuff that was 1/2 price in the scrap booking aisle that I just had to have! By the time I got to the check out line, the blood was almost totally gone from my right arm because of how heavy my basket had gotten. But it was some treasures and it was TONS of fun just checking out the store! Now when we got back in the car we talked about a couple of family weddings coming up next year and decided to drive back across town to see what this one department store had for dress clothes. We were going to just look and laughed on the way home when we looked in the back seat at the purchase that Ma made from that store. I swear that you have better luck finding something when you say to yourself that you don’t need it for quite awhile! But she had great luck and found the most beautiful dress top for the next wedding. After a strawberry ice cream malt, we found ourselves back home again. What a successful day we both had.
Mom and I
And for Daryl? Well he was able to get a couple of loads of corn out and is anxious to get back in the fields more next week. He said everything was working pretty good and hoped that it stayed that way.
Full loads of corn that will go into the dryer at our farm
And tonight he’s getting his winter coats lined up for the Viking’s football game he’s heading to tomorrow. I wonder what I should do while he’s gone?
The photo of the day is that of our neighbors bean field. They were done combining the corn, so the past couple of days they’ve been working on the round bales that they made from the leftover corn stalks. Now I know that larger farmers need the round bales and we’ve had someone make us some also every year. But I sure am a small square bale girl myself. 🙂