We are now in WaKeeney, KS. It is right along I-70 in the NW portion of the state. We pulled in here Saturday morning, to a small RV park, there is a KOA right next door! but this is more economical ;) On Saturday we hooked up the camper here, left the machinery at the truck stop across the road, and headed out to do some scouting for acres. We left business cards everywhere and talked to as many farmers and people working at co-ops and elevators as we could. No luck that day, but got our name out there. Sunday - we were able to go to church! More like we didn't have a field to get to so the temptation wasn't there to skip. It was great to go, the message was wonderful and made us all think. The members there were so welcoming to us, and chatted with us for 1/2 an hour after church! Very nice people, 1 couple was going to Lake Ida by Park Rapids, MN in a few weeks to visit some friends of theirs, so we all laughed about that as we could then relate with them. After church and lunch the guys headed out all day again to do more scouting, I stayed back to clean the camper, make a good supper, and I even had time to sneak over to the KOA's pool and swim laps for 30 minutes. It was amazing, it felt so good to be in the cool water and get my heart pumping, I love swimming. We played a couple games of euchre that night, Jon & I beat Andy & Chris...it was fun :)
Monday had a lot going on..... after getting more biz cards made in town and getting a plan set we split up and headed out like this scouting for wheat to combine:
Jon & I headed NW to the Atwood area, stopping everywhere in between
Jeff & Jodi set out for Colorado, the NE side of it
Andy & Bob went N from the camper
Ron & Chris went to Chad's to take the tranny out of the Tauras and order parts
Dan & Ben brought the rest of the machinery to WaKeeney from Chad's
Jon got a call that afternoon from a farmer that saw a card of ours! He had 360 or so acres of wheat to cut, not a big amount, but it was still something, 35 miles north of WaKeeney. We had been feeling a bit bummed out and this really cheered us up! We are very thankful, God provides! We drove right there to meet him and look at the fields. He said he normally has around 700 acres of wheat, but due to the wet fall he didn't get it all planted and has more corn, beans, and milo this year because of it. Some of the wheat was ready to cut, but some is a little green yet. We said we'd bring the machinery up tomorrow! We had hopped in the farmer's truck so he could show us the fields, and 1/2way through his power steering went out and then it really heated up, so we parked his truck and we all walked the mile and a half back to our truck. He felt bad, but we didn't mind the walk at all, we'd been in the truck all day. We had a nice visit with him anyways, saw where he grew up, and even walked the road that he took to go to school 2 miles away.
He pointed out some stakes in the ground of the farmstead he grew up at. They were for wireless internet. There had obviously not been anyone living there in the last 30 years or more, and we asked him why in the world that was there. He said it is how Obama is trying to help that rural area, the stimulus plan. Sure there were people hired to put that all in, but what good does it do anyone if it NEVER gets used? and don't think that is the only place it was put in, they were putting it in all over in that area, and only a handfull of people live scattered out there. He said most of them are older and don't have computers anyway! jeepers.
It has been hot, but a little more comfortable than last week. Upper 80’s-90’s, breezy everyday, and no rain in this area. Today, Tuesday, the combines were taken out to the field, unloaded, and started combining again! It was the best looking wheat we have been in yet. Thick, golden, fluffy, and few weeds! This morning while the guys were getting stuff ready I baked a cake, made sandwiches for lunch, and put a hotdish together in the crock pot for supper. We all went to the fields. Then around 6:00 or so Chris and I came back refilled the tank with fuel and he took supper out to the field for everyone else. I stayed at the camper since my Grandma & Grandpa were on their way here to visit us for a few days! There is a hotel right across from the RV park so I reserved a room for them. It was so nice to see them when they got here!!! They had brought along meat from our freezer back home, Grandma made cookies, and Marg sent lots of goodies! :) They wanted to wait here till the guys got in, but it will probably be 1am before they get back here from the field, so they headed to the hotel.
Well now I’m caught up I think, and seems I just wrote a book, but at least you have a better idea of what’s been going on here in the last week!
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