Still baling straw

The combine finished the wheat last week, but the straw baling will continue until sometime later this week. On Monday they didn't have to unload all the straw they baled as they started delivering to the people who get goods instead of cash. The wagon just dumps it in front of their house, if they have one share they get a small wagonload, if they have more they get a big wagon full.

 They were still unloading some of the wagons, Garry was feeling a little sorry because he accidently knocked Vika over with a bale of straw when he was unloading a wagon Monday afternoon. She stepped back just as he threw it down off the wagon. Leila and Vika are both helping stack bales now.  The students get bonus pay for extra work like baling. She had a sore neck when we went over to Scott and Shannon's for the hotdog roast at five. Since they are back for a couple weeks, I asked if they'd like to host this student supper. Scott talked about teams and running a good race to the end.

The weather had cooled off again, nice for baling, but some of the students had jackets on, as the wind made it chilly outside. Everyone enjoyed the food, especially the big cookies Shannon had made to go with watermelon for dessert.

About nine pm Garry came to bed and there was a thunderstorm brewing, so he was hoping for rain. As you can see in the photos I took on Sunday the sunflowers (they don't get irrigation) were very dry, the bottom leaves have dried up even as they are blooming.

We decided to watch Jaws on the television, we saw it in theatre on one of our first dates (Star Wars was the first date, this was the second or third date after going to the shore in NJ). Just as the shark was about to get someone early in the movie there was a tremendous bang and everything went dark. In the whole village, I believe. 

 The power wasn't back on until about 9:30 this morning. I saw Scott outside around six so I knew which gas stove we could heat up some water for making formula when Valentina ran out of bottles in the fridge before seven am.

Scott said there was only three tenths in the rain gauge, but everything looked pretty wet this morning. Garry was hoping for more rain, but there was only a sprinkle today. It was too wet to bale straw, though. They had the irrigation water going on the alfalfa all day.  The corn is growing really tall, Julia and Dima did the fertilizer in the water last week while the other students were baling. Garry said a couple days everyone was working that wasn't taking care of a baby.

Here's the cornfield on Sunday afternoon.