Zeorian Harvesting finished the last acre of the 2012 wheat harvest last night. After a high-five and a “good job”, Jim and I looked at each other and smiled. Another year complete!
The past 110 days have revolved completely around wheat and being on the road. Today, the harvest letdown will creep in and continue to eat at me until everything is back home and real life begins again. It’ll be SO GOOD to be reunited with the kids but I’m not looking forward to being home. Home, right now, means routine, schedule, alarm clocks and the work of getting back to normal. The work of stepping back into the real world will involve chasing spiders and bugs from our house, unloading the cottage, deep cleaning the cottage (inside & out), and pulling a horrible amount of weeds. Ugh! Plus being thrown right back into the needs of school, church and any outside pulls.
The next several days for us will involve taking time to clean equipment and getting it road ready for its 1100 mile drive home.
I was asked by the gals at the Faces of Agriculture blog to tell our story. I am honored to be able to put the custom harvesting industry in the spotlight! Thank you , Faces of Agriculture, for helping tell the story of American agriculture and where our food comes from!
Pictures of our last day of 2012 wheat harvest:
Dumping the very last load of the summer.
Be safe on your travel home. I feel a bit “let down” for you as well to see harvest come to an end. Will be looking forward to your posts when you return home!
Thanks, Karen! You’ve been a great, loyal follower of the wheat harvest. If you ever make it to the Omaha Cabela’s, let us know. And…FYI…my brother, Matt, moved to Sidney and is now working for Cabela’s.
Thanks for sharing your work season with us and have a safe, peaceful trip home! I looked north when we were on I-94 in Montana last week and thought of you and how far from home you were! As a seasonal worker myself (greenhouse, holidays) I understand the let-down, but then there is always “next year we’ll do this……..” to look forward to!
🙂 I’ve already figured its eight months away from loading the cottage again. I’ll be counting down the events before we head south once again. Thank you for the well wishes and for following our summer journey!! I hope you’ll continue looking for a new posting.
I had to go through the let down when our wheat harvest was over too. I didn’t want it to end but knew that eventually it would. And now summer is over too and it’s school time again. But now I have fall harvest to look forward to. We’ll hopefully get started later this week. Hope ya’ll have a safe trip back home!
Ethan, what will you be harvesting for fall crop? Corn? Thank you for the well wishes in getting back home. I know once I get there, everything will fall back into place. It’s just overwhelming and depressing – all at the same time. Good luck with your harvest! Did you start back to school? High School or college?
Yes, corn is our big fall crop. We usually have quite a bit of milo (also know as grain sorghum), but with the drought, most of it isn’t going to make. So I guess we’ll see if there is any to cut. And thank you for the well wishes too. I started my sophomore year of high school last Thursday.
I’m afraid what we’re going home to won’t be making very much either. But, I guess it’s more than nothing at all! Hopefully, with the higher prices, it will all even out. Best of luck with your sophomore year! You’ll be a senior before you know it, so enjoy your days!