Harvest Time

 

 We're surrounded by harvest. 

You can see far from our front porch (as I hear often, we're on the highest spot in Ralls County). 

It's really not fair to all the city people that we get to live here. 

Our front yard marigolds.

Harrison reading next to me in bed.

Friends generously set up their apple press, and we made delicious apple cider. Patty Agee at the library at CCCB used to make hot spiced cider for Halloween or one of those Fall days and would have it available in the library. The library was quiet ~ a great place to study. Mr. Reese would have some conversation with whoever walked in. Patty was very kind and helpful. And she made cider.

Anyway, hot spiced cider: Put apple cider in the crockpot with brown sugar, orange and lemon slices, and whole cinnamon sticks and cloves; simmer for as long as you'd like.

The burning of the boxes and branches. 

The sunset was beautiful, and I wanted Phoebe to show us the smocking she had just completed. It took her hours, but she did the whole tedious hand-stitched process that makes that pretty diamond pattern on linen. She'll be making some kind of garment with it. 

I know phone photos of the moon are pitiful, but I took one anyway. The moon has been especially beautiful the last few nights. This was the Harvest Moon of 2021.

And I never knew the sound of the dry corn rustling in the wind. 

It would probably be a little creepy at night. But it is beautiful in the daylight.

The soybean field near us. I imagine it's ready for harvest any day now.

Misty morning fields.

They're shelling corn down the way. 

Harrison was watching through his binoculars in his bedroom this morning. It's a little like Tetris. The combine is going down the rows. The grain hopper (?) truck goes up to it and drives alongside receiving the grain from the combine. It then goes to dump its grain into the semi tractor-trailer. Then he goes back to the combine. The grain trucks would eventually go to the grain bin to empty. There were probably 4 or 5 pieces of equipment moving all around at the same time. Quite the operation.