Farming #3

The last in a series of photos taken on my camera phone while helping my Dad harvest the crops this fall.

Farming #2

Another series of pictures I took on my poor-quality camera phone of working with my Dad and Grandpa.

Concrete reminder

So yesterday I was unloading beans into the small bin by the old hog house and was trying to remember back when Dad put that bin up. I knew it was right after he bought the 50 acres that we call "The Flatrock Farm". We got the bin for free for taking it and another bin that was over there down, the bins were on a plot of ground right next to what Dad had just bought (it was a larger piece of property that was sold into 4 sections, Dad ended up with one of those sections).



I don't know why I remember this but I know when we opened the bin door the first time their was a large nest of hornets that we had to deal with before we could even start taking it down. We spray painted numbers on all of the sections (so we could put it back together correctly) and then took the bin apart piece by piece loading it onto the goose neck trailer.

The bottom of that bin has a floor in it that is supported by cinder blocks, moving those is the part I remember the most, because as a 5th grader it seemed like really hard work, with endless blocks to be carried out... (it probably wasn't that bad) I do know we didn't put all of the blocks back in that floor, and that their is a pile of leftovers sitting by the yellow barn. (I could be wrong on this, and that they were all from the second bin that we never put back up.)

Anyway... the reason for posting this blog is because when we put the bin up in its current location and poured the concrete slab we left our mark in it... Casey and I have our hand prints in the cement, Dad just wrote his name, as well as grandpas initials (B.W.) and the neighbor who helped us (Danny Barnes)* as well as one special individual who wasn't supposed to leave a mark at all but did anyway... Peppy. After she put her paw print in the cement, Dad went ahead and wrote her name next to it, leaving a lasting memory of her.



Peppy is one of the best pets I ever had, she was an Austrlian Shepard and I will always remember her as a great dog. She passed away in Feb. of 2006 when I was at Purdue, she had been in poor health for awhile, rarely leaving the poarch. Mom said she debated on telling me the night she died or waiting until I got home to give me the news.

It was nice however thinking of her today















*note I didn't get pictures of Grandpa or Danny's names because they were on the opposite side of the cement slab and shaded by bin so that a picture wouldn't have come out well.

Farming #1

So I've been helping my Dad farm this week, I have taken a few pictures on my camera phone of different things and decided to post them here... I titled this as #1 because I will probably take some more next week. This includes pictures from the 5th, 7th and 8th of this month.

Opening up the field around the house


Sparky and Pepper having fun in the fields


Unloading


Dad driving the combine


Unloading a wagon


From the top of the bean bin.

Power of the Past - 2011

Power of the Past was last weekend, and well I don't have a whole lot to say about it in general... It was about the same as it was every year, lots of tractors, good "fair" like food. a flea market with some decent stuff and junk, and a bunch of people.

So I thought I'd list a few intersting things I saw... un tractor related, as I didn't really look at them a lot this year.

1. A lady walking around with a cockatoo on her shoulder... which prompted me to ask Steve and Erin via text if farmers where the new wave pirate....

2. Dillon Wager had a booth at the power of the past with some cool Spray Paint art he started doing, I would have never guessed it was spray paint when I first saw it.


3.... I actually got a picture for this...

An Amish kid wearing Air Jordan sneakers...

not a great picture since I was trying to be sneaky....


And for a closer look....



Wow is all I could say about that, I found it funny...

July 11th baling Hay

Baling Hay on July 11th with Mom and Dad with the heat index over 100....

Straw Season

Pictures from the first day of baling straw!
Taken June 30th 2011



The Field



Mom Driving






Day 2 - July 1st 2011


Unloading




House near the field

Day 3 - July 2nd 2011


You can sort of make out Scott Geoff in the window

Hay Baling

This weekend I was helping Dad bale hay like I usually do in the summer and snapped a few photos. Sorry the photos aren't good I just shot them with my camera quickly while I was on the tractor hauling wagons after we were done.


This is Mom driving the Baler and Dad stacking a wagon, I had to work and had just gotten to the field when they were finishing up. (May 31st 2011)


Driving in a wagon from the field after finishing up for the night, we had filled the 5 wagons that we had (525 bales that night, June 3rd 2011)






Three different photos of the field as we head in, we unloaded the wagons from the night before in the morning and finished up the field with two more wagons in the afternoon. June 4th 2011

September Photographs

Some Pictures taken while Farming in September, plus Mom, Casey and I at a Purdue football game on the 18th of September and with a bonus photo of Kong that was taken in October :)