Quick Post

I have so many more pictures to post and things I've seen lately to talk about!  

Today is the start of combining for us!  This is record early - Bill says they've never started this early - and everyone is starting with corn which is also unusual.  Other guys have been going for a few days but we didn't have any ready until now.

Still no rain and we're in the group of NW Iowa counties in a Red Alert for fire due to the super dry and hot conditions.  It was close to 100 yesterday and very windy and to be in the mid 90's today with no rain in sight.

I'm watering trees this morning while Bill & Tim are getting started combining.  You can see how much the austrees have grown already even in this record dry and hot summer thanks to lots of watering!  You can see what they looked like in the pickup.  We had to plant them about 2' in the ground and then cut them off at waist height.  Now they're taller than me.  We will still have a few windy winters with the old grove being gone until all the new trees get bigger.

new austrees

2 rows of them on the north edge since they are fast growing trees

getting tall and wide