Harvest is over!

OK Kiddies, what caused this in the corn field?

Beaver damage.

It's 11 PM and I should be in bed ...

It's 11 PM and I should be in bed.  Harvest is rolling fairly well.  We are getting crops out about as fast as the ground allows.  Today we started shelling corn, finished up on corn east of the highway; switched to milo and finished the last of the milo; switched to beans and got the last beans east of the highway;  moved west and are cutting some very nice ruts trying to get the beans out. But we got out about 75 acres even with all the switching and moving.  Not bad for us.

Yesterday was ... interesting.   Ben (Aman's brother) took a vacation day to help us by running the grain cart.  We had 20 acres of corn that had to be carted close to a 1/4 mile to the truck.  Things just went incredibly smooth until just before noon Aman turned the end to shell the last 3 rows and the combine stopped moving.  Phone call to Stan at Farm Pride.  We pulled the combine to the shed.  Mechanic came out, took the hydrostat pump off,

took it to the shop and replaced the shaft and coupler (second time in 4 years) and had us going by 6 PM.

But back to 11 PM.  I've been fighting a cold, don't feel great, need to hit the ground running in the morning.  But about 8:30 PM some guys made a serious mistake involving a Jeep and a tree stump.  Fire Dept stood by while rescue removed one guy from the wreckage and put him in a helicopter.  So I am still a bit too wound up to go to sleep.