Good Weather

Since we have been here the weather has been really nice. Now it is in the 80's and lower 90's during the days and it cools off nicely at night. It thundered this morning but only ended up sprinkling. The guys went to the field to fuel and grease up the machines then came back to the camper to eat breakfast for lunch or pancake palooza as I called it. We had 2 pounds of good bacon (from home) and 5 batches of from scratch pancakes with topping choices including butter, syrup, cutup strawberries and peaches, peanut butter, and plain or cinnamon applesauce. We took everything out to our big table outside and the guys devoured it before the flies had a chance. Then the guys left to go back out to the field to see if the moisture was down enough to get combining. While the guys were out in the field before lunch apparently Jake stepped on a snake and was freaking out until he realized it was dead, it was a bull snake and not a rattler, but the bull snakes have so much bacteria in their mouths that a person can get sick from it. He got a picture of it, but I do not have it to add here right now. The past few days have been hectic. I have driven to Duncan, Wichita Falls TX, and back to Greenville TX for more fuel filters and other parts in the past 3 days. We have had some good going times and then all of a sudden there are holdups on several of the machines. But we are fortunate to have a really good crew. Something happened yesterday that we have never encountered before. There was 1 of the heads left at a field that had been finished. The rest of the combines and equipment were moved and had started another field. Our guys were driving the grain trucks past that finished field so they would see the head on the trailer when they drove by. Dan went by it and noticed that the combine head was lying upside down on the ground. He stopped and called Jon. The trailer had not been moved and there was no storm to "blow" it off. We are guessing it was vandalism and was literally pushed off the trailer. Our guys got it turned back over, and somehow there was no damage. On Saturday night some of the guys did a little wild hog hunting before coming back to the camper. Andy shot a boar but they did not bring it back with them. Andy had eaten wild boar before and said it tasted like urine. So hopefully they get a female or a younger pig and they can roast it up so we can try it. There are a lot of hogs down here, and the farmers say: go for it! These guys are loving it.