Taking Time to Smell the Roses (or Mums)

Nancy Eberts

6 years ago

It has been a busy mid-August through, what is soon to be, mid-September for us.

With wheat harvest ending, the farm activities and even a couple quick getaways, it has made for non-stop activity.

We finished up our own wheat and our customers here in Southwest North Dakota. While that was happening. things were already winding down in Kenmare so we were unable to make it there for harvest.

Seems as soon as our combines were parked, the choppers and single-axle trucks were pulled out to prepare for corn silage. Some of our grain corn was zeroed out by insurance due to lack of rain in July. Haying was completed and bales are being stacked.

We are moving forward with what needs to be done. Agriculture is more than filling a bin…well, in our yard anyway. It is a year-round business!

Myron and I left on a Saturday afternoon for the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag, Minnesota. We arrived just in time for the polka mass (which we both enjoy). We spent Sunday enjoying the parade, events, the tractor pull and were home by midnight! What seems like a quick trip truly was a getaway for US and the drive is always a way to get some business done. (To view memories of 2016 and 2017, click on the highlighted year.)

*There is always more than red equipment at Rollag- i just tend to like to photograph the red!*

Quick listen to some of the music at the mass.

*We did start the parade with a little rain.*

*Sidehill machines have been around a while!*

*I never tire of watching these big, beautiful machines!*

So many events and learning opportunities for families.

*This year, the feature for the show was “Home Built” tractors. Three-tractors-in-one here and simply walked away with the sled (to small for him) at the pull.*

*We both got pretty comfortable in the afternoon sun!*

*Fall is here -gotta love mums! These are from my friend’s front yard. I did a story on her and all her flowers earlier this spring.*

This last weekend, Myron and the crew loaded up some of Myron’s favorite things (Farmall tractors!) and headed to Taylor Days in Taylor, North Dakota. A tractor display, a car show, family farm activities, good conversation with like-minded folks plus a tractor pull always makes for an enjoyable Sunday – or “Sunday Funday”, as they say.

We’ve been lucky enough to participate in the Taylor event for several years and always appreciate this small-town event. In this great big, crazy, unsure world – learning a little of “how it was back when” is always good for the soul.