Yep, the 2014 harvest journey is officially over. Tomorrow morning will be the first trip headed in the direction of home. The Beast will be waiting for our return in a few days.
I’m gonna miss you, dear Cottage! “How in the world do you live in a trailer house all summer long”? I hear this quite often. And there are others, “Don’t you go crazy in that small area?”, “Don’t you ever miss your house?” To most of these questions, the answer is no – except for the first question. And to that I have all kinds of reasons why I love our 40 foot of space…mostly because of simplicity. The clutter is eliminated because you don’t have room for it. Living in the close quarters teaches you to get along with who you live with. It’s easier to clean. The best reason of all? It means we’re doing what we love to do. We’re on the road chasing the ripening wheat from south to north.
Tonight marks our 49th night in Jordan, MT. Where will we be tomorrow night? Only the road knows. Tomorrow night will also mean finality. The journey is over for another year. Time to jump back into the “real” world. If you’re a harvester, I know you understand what I’m trying to say. If you’re not, I’m certain you’re questioning my sanity right now.
As a review of the summer, let’s go back to a few of my older posts and relive the summer. Maybe this will help me work through these feelings of knowing the journey we look so forward to all winter long is over again for another year.
Jenna visited us for the July 4th holiday – distant fireworks – and the very next day, Taylor and Callie joined the crew – came as strangers, left as family
Something we’ve done a lot of this summer – waiting for the wheat to dry. Once we got to Colorado, this waiting game continued; only waiting it out with the family we helped cut was way more fun than when you’re by yourselves – let the games begin We also cut some phenomenal wheat in Colorado. WOW!
We were staying pretty busy with the wheat around Jordan, to the point that I was wishing for a rain day. And, then it happened and caused nothing but problems – kaput!
This brings us back to tonight. My final night of harvest 2014. Thank you for following our journey! I will continue blogging, of course, so check back once in a while and see what’s going on. The main event of the off-season will be welcoming our second grand baby in December. I’m certain of one thing…it’s a crazy, wonderful life we live but I wouldn’t change one thing about it!