Sssshhhh!

Don't tell Mother Nature, but the corn field is dry enough to cut!!!!   She must be sleeping on the job because we have actually dried out a little.  The river is even down some.  Even though it snowed today, it didn't stick.

 We rode over Saturday morning to check things out and found plenty of Sandhills eating our crop.

 They don't stick around long when Boyd uses his bird deterring device.

Boyd serviced the disc hoping that someday soon he gets to put it to use.  It has been sitting in the hayfield all winter.

 The ground on the middle field looked like it just might be dry enough to handle a combine.

 So, later Saturday afternoon, they gave it a try.  They cut enough to fill a semi-truck and since that is the only truck available, they stopped.  Monday, they will haul it to Scoular's and if the corn is dry enough, we can go full steam ahead.  Hopefully, hiring more trucks and moving along fast.

 The cranes have stripped ear after ear, but the yield was still good.  Cross your fingers that the yield will stay strong, even though we know there are sections that are stripped to nothing.

 They leave one and eat the next.

 Then Boyd spooked this guy out of the field.

 And he ran.

 And ran.

 The inside of the drain ditch seems to have become a superhighway.

 These birds sing all the time, I love it.

 Found this guy in the hay field at home.