Still...last week of June

It's still raining. We've had so much rain the past two weeks, we're considering building an ark next. For the weather service to issue flood watches and warnings for the prairie is quite alarming. It's just scarey thinking that one of these days it might quit and not rain again. Just how loud do we gripe? It NEVER rains like this.

House update: The electrician has worked for two days now and is making good progress. I talked to him this morning for about 2 hours and we're all on the same page. The cabinet guy came last night and we drew where all of them were going to be built, so we could center lights over certain parts of the kitchen. Some lights aren't going to be installed until the cabinets show up. The electrician has been good to work with.

I should also have steps to go down into the basement today. It's actually DRY! May sound funny, but I haven't been down in there yet. I don't climb DOWN very good..and it's definitely a climb down with the ladder to get in there. I'll wait on the staircase.

Appliances have all been picked out and final decisions are going to be made today. Cooktop and double ovens are going to be SO nice. I'm not going to endorse any product, but I definitely have my opinions on what I want. If you really want to know what I'm picking out, email me and I'll tell you what brand and why it's what I want. I've priced these appliances for months now and am please to find out that our local-owned appliance store is giving me the best price over any chainstore....and I didn't even have to ask him to lower his prices.

Sewing has been limited at my house and probably will be for a few more days. For some reason, there's always something else that needs to be done!

Last week of June

Another house update. The workers got about half of the shingles on.....it came yet another rain-storm. Can you say MOSQUITOES?! They're about to carry us off!

My electrician decided last week that he didn't want to do my job--he has many health problems. So, we spent three hours with a new electrician on saturday morning trying to get a bid from him. We'll find out today(monday) if he can do the job for sure. If we let him do the work, he can get started this week...so my bet is that he can have the job!

Windows should also be here this week. The basement is finally dry and cleaned out (remember the collapse). It had a lot of debri left in it and you know the concrete guy doesn't clean up after himself. The framer can make a set of steps that go down into there.

We're hoping to get back to the field this afternoon. DH informed me that when we get everything cut, we will of cut 1300 acres of wheat. About 200 of it is the neighbors wheat, because we also harvest his for him.

Norma asked me when we plant....we sew(plant) wheat in the fall--typically late September and early October.

I said I had sewed a little during all this chaos and this is what I've gotten put together. I did not make the string-blocks but I sashed them. I think the string-blocks are easier to make than the tiny 9-patches! Our guild is making quilts for a local shelter and this is one ready for the quilter. We have a longarmer in our group that will quilt them if we're going to donate them. Troy is my quilt-hanger-upper and he said this one was TOO GREEN! BTW--the string blocks are 8".

If you notice, the side(verticle) sashings are solid where the horizontal ones are striped. Yeah..I ran out of the lighter color. It still works. The dark green fabric has tiny little hearts in it. I still have enough of the dark green--and I don't even LIKE green!--to bind it in green. GOOD way to get it out of my stash!

House Progress-June

Thank goodness the contractor isn't waiting on us to help him with the house. The framer (contractor's brother) is doing a marvelous job working thru the rain-showers we've had over the past month. Here are some pictures, but just remember this didn't all happen overnight!

How close we are to the old house.

Rusty is already doing a job of watching....yeah, he watches the cats.

Looking thru the house towards the backporch.

Back porch.
Another back porch view.

Old Edmond Brick

We should have roof-shingles this week....if it will quit raining. Brick and windows are going to be installed after that.

AND.....I have actually sewed a little during all this stuff going on in our lives. I'll try to post a pictures of the string-quilt I've put together................later.

Harvest-June 2007

I was asked if I had left the planet, and if you can count being in the field going to another plant...I'm gone. When the weather has cooperated, we've been up to our eye-balls in wheat...seed, chaf, dust, break-downs, diesel, sunburns, hydrolic-hose breaks, and thunderstorms. We should've finished about a week ago, but the clouds have decided to pour moisture upon us so it maybe another week before we're even back out there.

Pictures from the past month:

The view of harvest thru the Truck Driver!

(if you have questions..don't hesitate to ask)

First Day of Harvest--First Field:

Mama's two best helpers! ~~~~~~Waiting on the first swath so a sample can be taken to town and tested for moisture.

First harvest together (she's especially good at bringing supper to the field) We're still workin' on wedding plans too.

Checkin' to see if the combine is working right.

Second Field:

Wind and hail damage--the wheat just lays flat on the ground and it's hard to pick it up off of the ground with the combine-header.Troy concentrating.


Yet another field:

Jack hiding....or so he thought.

We've cut about 800 acres--on about 10 different fields scattered across 20 miles. IF the rain would hold off for a few days, we could finish in TWO days! But we just can't find two DRY days.

I had almost 400 pictures in my camera....so if you want a different angle.....I got it!