Meals on Wheels

Making lunch and making a lot of dirty dishes.


It is nice to get the pre lunch dishes done before I take lunch out if possible because there is a bunch of dishes to do after lunch from all the containers.


The menu for Fridays lunch was: pizza hotdish, garlic bread, and brownies with 1 scoop of ice cream.


Meals on wheels to the field. We learned to buckle up the water cooler so it doesn't spill or tip over.


Me enjoying the really nice day while I waited for the guys to come up and get their lunch. Jon went to check if the next field was ready.


One of the few fields we could unload on the go here, many fields had some terraces which makes it too difficult to unload on the go with trucks anyway. This was some really good wheat!


Some nights there are tons of fireflies out. Jon caught some and put them in a styrafoam cup, their lights shown through really well, though not in the picture at all! It was a beautiful night out.

We finished up combining late on Friday. It was a really good week of harvesting. Saturday I made up the invoices, we settled up with the farmers, the guys started to get the machines blown off good and load them onto the trailers. We were going to grill hot dogs for supper, but Winston was craving steak. So he bought a nearly 1 lb steak for everyone and he & Charlie grilled them up, it was very good and also very generous of him. Around 9pm it really cooled off, there was a good breeze and was nice outside. So Jon & I went for a walk around 9:30. About 5 minutes into the walk we could see an older pickup coming our way and it was smoking like crazy. By the time it was a few yards away we could see it wasn't the pickup itself that was smoking, it was what was in the bed of the truck and by then it was too late. The wind was blowing towards us and the guy didn't stop to let us cross. So we got fumigated. YUCK! He was spraying for mosquitos and it was sure stinky. We couldn't believe it, how disgusting, but we didn't have to worry about any mosquitos bothering us!

Sunday we went to Concordia Lutheran Church, same as we had went to the previous week. It was nice to visit with the people we had met the week before and join in the worship with them. Their organist had been gone the week before and there were just recordings, but he was back this Sunday, what a difference it was. The church was filled with the music, it was almost as good as our church's music back home. It is easy to take the music, organists, and our powerful organ for granted until you visit other churches and can compare, I like it when a church is just bursting with music and praise. And after church it happened again, there was a potluck! Several people invited us to stay and well they didn't have to twist our arms very hard, it was put on by the men of the church - what a great idea! It was 75% meat with a little of everything else and it was great. After that Jon went to meet with the other farmers that he did not get to the day before and the rest of us headed to the sauna, I mean laundromat. It was 102 degrees outside on Sunday and it wasn't much less than that in the laundromat. A few hours in there was long enough. When Jon and all of us got back to the camper we decided to go to the community pool to cool down for a while. Jim didn't have swim trunks along so he stayed back at the camper while the rest of us went for a dip. At 5-6pm everyday all the kids under 18 have to leave and it is only open to adults. The guys were doing flips and goofy things off the diving boards and then we played shark for the rest of the hour, it was fun. That night after supper Andy took us all out to Dairy Queen and bought us all a blizzard or shake, how nice! Our crew is the best!