The month of July was not the typical harvest month for Zeorian Harvesting.
The first day of July was also the last day we cut wheat for our farmer north of Chase, Kansas. This left us with a HUGE hole in what was next.
Our next job should have been Garden City. However, the crops in Chase and Garden basically ripened at the same time. The farmer we help in Garden has his own combine and had less acres this year than in past years. Tim was cutting wheat while we were cutting wheat. By the time we finished in Chase, he was nearly done with his crop and wouldn’t need the help of a second combine.
We had no direction to head except home, home.
Frank (our Freightliner truck) needed some work done on it. This was realized after we left home, of course. So, Jim decided this was the time we would take it and the trailer house back home and hang out until it was time to head for Jordan (Montana).
It was 103 degrees on the 2nd of July. This, of course, was clean-up day. Always.
On July 4th, we left The Beast sitting in the farmer’s yard and we headed home, home with the trailer house and Frank. We wanted to surprise the kids as they were gathering together at Jamie and Curt’s house to celebrate the holiday. When we pulled into the driveway later that day, they were surprised. But, not really. They sort of had an idea that maybe this is what we were going to do.
We haven’t celebrated the 4thof July with ALL of the girls since the summer of 2004.
We hung out at home until July 14.
The night before we left, Jim decided tomorrow was the day to head back to Kansas and catch-up with the rest of harvest again.
The morning we were preparing to leave, we received a telephone call from a fellow harvester wondering if we would want to help his crew near Hardin, Montana.
Absolutely!
Yay! We had a plan. Having a plan feels way better than not having a plan.
We made it back to Lyons the evening of the 14th and on the morning of the 15th, we headed north with our first trip. We returned to Lyons on the 18th and left again on the 19th with load #2. It was exactly one week from the point we left home that we arrived at our destination with all of our equipment. A very long week, indeed.
I have never seen so much wheat in one place! The farm was well over 10,000 acres – but not all wheat. You really should check out the YouTube channel just to see the sites on this farm!
We were still cutting wheat in Hardin on July 31.
Click here to view the YouTube daily videos. For July, you’ll want to watch Day 27 through Day 57.
To view the June videos, click here.
