Holy smokes I've taken a lot of pictures in the last few weeks. Normally I try to organize them into groups of similar projects and such but this time they're all going to be in chronological order just so you can see how scatter brained I really am out here .... This is going to end up being a few nights work to get caught back up !!
Diageo (the stove is a Crown Royal brand) is puffing away doing his thing. Mostly turning wood into smoke
The grain bin is FINALLY going to get filled with some corn !!! About damn time .... yeah I know right .....
Boy oh boy this has been a long time in the making
My dirt guy brought 10 tons of granite sand to use under Mama Bears porch patio by the house.
Gotta pay the man to play with our toys ....
We did some tiling for a neighbor and it all started off oh so well ....
And then it started to drizzle ....
And then is started to actually figure it out and rained a fair bit. We ended up going in the rain for a while as things were so dried out it took a long time for it to get too muddy to be able to pull the plow.
We took a bit of a break from farm stuff to make food stuff. Mama Bear makes a mean tomato sauce and it was all hands on deck to get it all done !!
Leo ran the blender and impressed us all by only pushing the button without the top on once. Not bad !!
I couldn't quite time the screenshot properly so all you get to see of Alyssa is her pink **** while she washed almost 30 gallons of tomatoes. She's a trooper !!
We screeded the granite sand for the porch patio and got to work setting bricks.
Er'ma'gawsh this is going to be a lot of work
Misc assortment of paver holder backer deals.
6hrs for 2 big and 3 little people to get this far wasn't bad I thought. Looks decent so far !!
"I heard you have a wood stove"
"Yup"
"Guess what ?!"
"Hmmmmmm ..... You have wood you want gone ?"
"Yup. A bunch of black walnut that's been sitting for a few years"
"Be right there."
This is the first of probably 7-8 loads like this so yessssss. Black Walnut is on par with Maple and a shade poorer than Red Oak as far as BTU's/Cord so it'll burn quite well this winter in those colder days. So far the poor stove is getting a steady diet of of barn/shed lumber and Basswood cut this spring. The lumber smokes like crazy. Nothing treated so
First field of soybeans about to go under the knife !!!
Oh my goodness I love everything about this new soybean head !!!!!!!!
Om nom nom gobbling up just shy of 10 acres per hour. Not bad really !!
Da fug is that on there for ? I saw it earlier and need to look closer ....
Our family EV is getting a recharge it seems .....
I let Pops combine beans and 250' in he causes $3,000 in damage to my new head
No one local has parts so we pulled the old one out of the shed. We talked about selling it but I think we're going to keep it and fix them both up this winter. Having a "spare" for soybeans is a good idea especially with how hard it's been getting parts and such lately. When the moisture is right we don't need downtime.
The last time Mama Bear took her Subaru Ascent in for an oil change she came home with a $300+ bill for the oil change and a bunch of **** she got suckered into as part of their "40k mile package" The hell with that. I bought some oil and genuine Subaru filters and can do it for under $30 in materials so away we go. The hell with flushing brake fluid at 40k miles. That pissed me off. Who does that ?! Maybe I'm wrong here but that seems totally unnecessary and they're likely just sucking money out of people for no decent reason. When I called in and asked if they also thought it was necessary for me to change the air in my air brake system on my semi with 500k miles the gal gasped and told me I was on borrowed time if I had not done it yet. Oh my.
Porch block is all laid !!!
Kiddos helped spread sand over the whole works so I could tamp it and lock them together. Little Man kept getting in the way and undoing what the girls were doing. It was awesome
This is what we have left so far. Looks like a lot but that pile goes back I dunno ... 30' from there
Sand locked in-between then, cleaned up and there it is. Looks pretty nice !!!
First day of corn and it was a little wet. Pops said "The combine says it's 28% but I felt it and it seems like it's only 23% so we keep going" Well my tester said it was between 28-32% which is wetter than we should be combining but it has to be wrong since the hand of the LeRoy says it's dry enough. I had to crank the dryer up to 185F to get it to dry down to 17.5% before it went into the bin. While it cools in the bin it'll lose another 2-2.5% so it'll end up right at 15% which is perfect.
This looks like a window of a full wagon. Nope. It's so wet it is sticking to the sides of the box
Since it was almost 80F I decided Pops could combine his wet corn alone and I went and raked and baled some really really dry soybean straw.
10mph with this baler and it gobbled it up like a fat kid with a DQ cake in front of him ....
Enough for now .... TikTok told me mixing Captain Morgan into Busch Light was a good idea and it's proving to be a good AND a bad idea .... tastes oddly wonderful but is causing me to have to spell check quite a bit .....
