FINISHED!!!

As of 4:30 this afternoon, the 2009 harvest is officially done! Thank you Lord! We won't have to listen to Christmas music in the combine after all! It seemed at times like we would never be done, and were resigning ourselves to having some crop out there till next spring, but that was not a happy thought. Thanks to the blessing of not much rain lately, even though the forecast has rain in it for almost every day, and another blessing of family, friends and neighbours who were willing to help us out after their crops were off, we are done!

One afternoon we had our own swather and one combine, as well as the neighbours swather and combine out on the field and made good progress eating up the acres.

Unloading beans onto the grain cart, from which they were loaded onto the semi, and then trucked home or to the dryer at the neighbours. The beans were not dry enough so we were fortunate to get onto the drying list and so we could haul them straight from the field to the dryer to get dried down a couple of percentages, dry enough so that the elevator was willing to take them.

Yesterday and today we had two other fellows with pickup headers on their BIG John Deeres come and help us and then the acres were gobbled up. This picture was taken when the work was done.

Time for a coffee break, now that the, beans are all off! It feels good!

There is still no lack of work to be done, and no doubt we will still have a lot of busy days ahead, but the pressure will be less, we can breathe easier, and know that next spring we can get straight to seeding without having to worry about combining first. This harvest season has been a real challenge but we have been trying to not worry, or at least not much, and take it one day at a time, and we see that God has been faithful----again! Why did I doubt? Thank-You God for blessing us with this! Thank you all who helped us out these past few days---you know who you are---we appreciate what you did!