67 Years Ago

 67 years ago today an event occurred that would be pretty important over the passing of time. My dad bought that 52 Mercury sedan. The same one you see in the occasional youtube video I post. Obviously I had no clue back then just how long that car was going to be part of the family. In spite of nearly 35 years of neglect parked in a bush I was able to bring it back to road worthiness and enjoy miles of fun. I put this video together 7 years ago to mark the anniversary. Includes plenty of still photos of us with the car over the 1960s. Seems hard to believe that it was only our "daily driver" for ten years. Its been my project/play car for almost 12 years now. 

Harvest 26 Drags On

 I started harvest 17 days ago and it should not take that long to do just over 700 acres with this big combine. Obviously weather has been the holdup. Yet another damp morning with heavy overcast means a late start if we even get going. I have plenty of good help for when conditions are good to go. Have already harvested a lot of tough wheat. Just can't wait for it to be totally dry at this time of year. 

Yesterday's sample was 16% and warm so it went into one of the two aeration bins just to be safe. Days are short now and usually as soon as the sun sets the wheat straw gets tough enough to cause problems and I quit rather than break something. 130 acres still to do and that is more than 2 days of work right now. 

Maybe harvest some potatoes this morning while I am waiting on the weather to make up it's mind. 

Drone view of the yard early this morning. 

Late Harvest Gets Later

 Should be half done harvest at least by mid September but I'm stuck at 0% thanks to untimely rains. We could have used that rain back in July when it was too dry but now its just costing us time and money. Not that my crop was ready to harvest anyway due to late planting. Again weather related. Frost this past weekend should kill anything that was still green. Even the leaf colours are a little late coming on as the trees are still mostly green. I shot some video on the weekend down in the valley showing the scenery. Another inch+ yesterday so the wet fields and crops are wetter than ever now. Might as well enjoy the scenery. 

 This guy isn't me. But he could be. I've got a lot of "wild acres" like him that I'm leaving that way. 

Why this Saskatchewan farmer is letting his land grow wild 

Again With The Garden

 Been hot and dry but the garden is hanging in there surviving on moisture reserves from all the rainfall in June and early July. New potatoes are great and had the first new tomato today. Even got inspired to pick a pail of Saskatoons since they are the best crop in years. Mosquitoes are terrible though. 

A Thousand Words

 An old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words comes to mind. I guess a video might be worth even more so here is a July garden update from my yt channel in which I hopefully explain what is going on around here. As usual time is passing in fast forward as I attempt to keep up. 

Lazy Blog Post

 I've been too lazy (busy) to put much on the blog since spring planting finally got started here. Late start means late finish and it was the sixth of June before I did finish. Just with a day or two to spare before the rains made it too wet to get in the field. Now spraying to do and every day that passes is going to make that operation late too. A good inch and a half in the past 24 hours but at least no hail or flooding or tornadoes like some got. 

The vegetable garden is doing pretty good in spite of my neglect. Did some video updates and put a new one on the channel.