Shelling Corn and other things.....

It's been a hot, dry, dusty, busy week !!!

 

We have been shelling high moisture corn for another farmer

 

Here is the unloading process at the farm.  Doesn't look like it in this picture but it's a very dusty, dirty, noisy job !!!

 

Rick ran the combine and I shuttled the 3 trucks from the fields to the farm

 

Our helper Lorn had the dirty noisy job of standing by the equipment unloading every truck all day long!!

 

We thought a few times on Thursday we were going to get rained out but all the storms went above or below us

 

By  the time the sun set we had done 12 loads that day using one trailer and 2 straight trucks

 

On Friday thankfully it was a much cooler day but no less dusty since all the rain missed us.  We were starting to see the "light at the end of the tunnel" and finished up around 3:00.

33,700 some bushels and we were done !!!  That's a lot of feed for a lot of cows !!

 

So we decided to kick back yesterday and go to the Southern Cove antique tractor show at New  Enterprise, PA.  It was beautiful and sunny when we left home but when we got to the mountains it was very cloudy and cool.

 

After an hour or so at the show the sun came threw and it was a beautiful day in that little valley.  Very  nice show with lots of good food and tractors to look at.

A great way to end a busy week.

Packed up and ready to go......

Today is the day to enter items at The Great Frederick Fair so they are all boxed up and ready to go!!I'll keep ya posted....... :)

Stacked Pumpkins Table Runner

 

Back last winter I made this Silly Stacked Pumpkins table runner.

 

 

The Coats and Clark company purchased the pattern from me and wanted it with a black border and fringe.  Really added a little something to it !!

 

 

If you would like a free download of this pattern  you can click on the link above to go to the page to get the pattern.  Hope you enjoy it !! 

 

 

http://www.redheart.com/free-patterns/stacked-pumpkin-table-runner

Pastel Pillow

Well I think I finally got the pillow to come out right.

 

Here is the front side.....

 

 

.....and here is the back. 

 

I'm a lot more pleased with this one than the first one I tried...

Busy Days...

It's been a rather busy month but we did manage to squeeze in a trip to the mid west.

 

 

Huge grain mills were everywhere. 

 

 

Very nice and interesting place to visit was the Kinze museum.

 

 

Hundreds of miles of beautiful farms and fields and my favorite thing...... 

 

 

windmills !!!

 

 

 

Also did some dreaming in case the lottery numbers ever come up....

 

 

Then the next week we made a trip to Lancaster, PA,

 

 

While waiting for a repair to the air compressor we dropped off we checked out more equipment dealers. 

 

 

We also went to a farm sale near Greencastle, PA.

 

 

 

Spent some time with the grandkids...

 

 

...made a peach pie...

 

 

and fit in some crocheting although on this one I think it was just a big waste of time!!

 

 

 

Can NOT get it to come out like I want it to so it's going in a box to figure out at a way later date !!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Chevron Purse

 

Finally got the Chevron pattern purse finished.

 

 

 

I like the way it turned out !! 

Beautiful Summer Days

 

 

 

 

Lots of beautiful blue sky days this summer.  Nice weather to have a pizza picnic out in the yard, too !!  Not a lot of time for crochet lately but I am working on an special project that I can't reveal just yet.....more about that one this winter.....