Hi everyone,
I'm sorry for the delay but Robert and I got to go see our daughter and her precious family last weekend. I said to him, when I realized that 3 days had passed by, that it seems like time stands still on the few days we get to be with them.
Then, the day after we got home we had to finish the harvesting as MORE snow was on it's way. I praise the Lord and thank you for your prayers as we DID get it done that day! We needed a friend's help, and some innovative truck driving but we GOT IT DONE! YAYYY!
Robert was one of the truck drivers. He was supposed to be the only truck driver as he had taken the first half of the field to the yard by himself but now there was snow and the snow was melting with the nice weather. The first load that Andrew dumped on the truck broke through the ice/snow and Robert was stuck.
He told me this story at suppertime. That load he was able to rock the semi back and forth until he got out. The second time it happened, he had to be pulled out by Andrew with the tractor and cart. After that, it was decided that the semis had to be loaded out on the road. This took more time for the cart to get there so everything was looking pretty bleak.
That's when Jacob called his buddy Errol who drove the second truck. Then things proceeded more swiftly and we finished right before sunset. PRAISE THE LORD!!
Errol is an amazing young man who has helped us with many harvests. This year, though, he got a full time job and hasn't been able to help at all. Being we were desperate for help, Errol's boss said he could take the afternoon off to drive truck for us so we could finish harvesting our corn.
It is highly unlikely that we would have gotten finished that day without Errol's help and the next day there was more snow! This year so far we've had more snow than all of last Winter! It looks like it's going to be a white Christmas and a very long Winter.
Anyway, we got our harvesting done. I took a video when I was riding in the combine with my son. I'll see if I can figure out how to share it here. I hope this works. If not, you can check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/reel/1141095547847376
We were talking about how wonderful our combine it. The cart has tracks so that the weight can be distributed. Then the cart doesn't sink in even when a full combine hopper is dumped on it quickly. The combine, though, has tall thin tires so that it can go between the rows and not drive down the crop. This helps it float on top of the snow so away we went. Only once did I feel the combine slip when we were turning around at the end of a row.
So we got it done and we are oh so happy. Thanks a million for your prayers and may God bless you for them!
I still have to make bread yet today so I'd best sign off for now. Keep warm everybody.
Dawn
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