Winter, Harvest & Snowblowers

It's beginning to feel like winter. The prairie winds are blowing with gusto. They make the daytime high temperatures in the high forties feel like the high twenties. At night, the low thirties feel like the teens.


We enjoyed our church's harvest festival last night. In a church made up of farmers, this festival takes on new meaning. The collection amounted to $12,000 - pretty generous for a gathering of only 50 or so people.


The wheat, barley, flax and soy bean harvests were okay, but not as boutiful as last year. The corn harvest was good, but the sunflowers tanked this year due to the heavy rains and hail. I will help my friend, Nathan Lunde, move his cattle to their winter pasture next week.


My last few days have been consumed with assembling and attaching the snow-blower to the garden tractor. The blower comes in 75 different pieces. The instructions are comprised of some 50 steps. After removing the mower from the tractor and making a workable space in the shed, I have fininshed step 5.


Erleen has brough her herb garden into the washroom for the winter. She has two large tubs filled with rich soil crowded with her herb plants. We will continue to have tasty meals all winter.


Erleen and her sister-in-law, Lorraine spent yesterday in Fargo. They shopped, ate and visited.


There is a chance of snow flurries today, but so far it doesn't look likely.


We love our new life here on the northern prairies.