By the middle of September, our beans and sunflowers were starting to get seriously dry. Daily prayers for rain became common in our house. Even the children caught the refrain.
Side by side in the field.
Being dry didn't keep them from forming big buds and blooming! It was so exciting to see the first blooms!
Coming when called. David loves doing the chores. And the girls know him well now.
"Hey girl!"
David likes to talk to them as they come in for feed. And of course, the children do too.
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Healthy calves, and mama cows.
Moving heifers to a greener pasture. It's nice when they're tame enough that we can just 'kind of rig up a fence' to move them, and it works just fine.
Some of us prefer to stay on top of the truck, where it's safer, just to be on the safe side.
David was the primary hoister/loader.
Melvin helped stack on the trailer. Josiah and I drove and supervised.
Benji and Katri managed to roll a few bales over to the trailer too!
It was fun riding up high on the stack while I drove (slowly) to the barn!
Sunflowers, now more than knee-high.
An assassin bug, who is thankful for organic farmers!
The sunflower buds are just starting to show!
Dewy soybean leaves.
Blossoms! Hooray!
The beans are just starting to 'canopy'. That means that the leaves are meeting across the rows, and shading out the weeds. They also conserve moisture better at this stage.
It's hard to beat an early morning walk together while the children are still snoozing!
Those soybeans really bush out fast!
The experimental plot of popcorn is looking nice! I think it may be enough to
Hmm, the amaranth is looking rather bug-eaten. We'll need to do some research on that before we plant several acres of it next year.
The sunflowers are really popping up nicely!
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