Well, I took a week off, loaded up the car and the girls, and made our annual trek east to work wheat harvest for my father-in-law.
Steve farms just north of Pendleton; the ranch has been in the family for three generations, and while the technology has changed the process has not. All total, he farms just under two thousand acres, and recently transitioned 600 of that into the Federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). That being said, Steve is farming about 600 acres a year, cutting his harvest time from almost 3 weeks to a long week and a half.
This is Elsa's second harvest, and she, of course, has a great time...
Elsa enjoying lunch in the field with the boss, my brother-in-law Matt, and mom...
Riding in the "yom-bine" with Papa...
I split my time working for Steve to assist Amy's Uncle with roofing his cabin on the Umatilla. Mark and Gail suffered a wicked fire last fall, completing burning their cabin to the ground. He just finished framing it in and is in the process of sealing it up before winter...
It wasn't all work, as Mark has 5 acres all along the river with excellent trout pools...to beat the 110 degree heat we did some snorkeling and found several spawning salmon in the deeper holes.
Elsa, of course, is a trout bum in training and was obsessed with petting the little redsides as we removed the #14 adams...
scott
Steve farms just north of Pendleton; the ranch has been in the family for three generations, and while the technology has changed the process has not. All total, he farms just under two thousand acres, and recently transitioned 600 of that into the Federal Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). That being said, Steve is farming about 600 acres a year, cutting his harvest time from almost 3 weeks to a long week and a half.
This is Elsa's second harvest, and she, of course, has a great time...
Elsa enjoying lunch in the field with the boss, my brother-in-law Matt, and mom...
Riding in the "yom-bine" with Papa...
I split my time working for Steve to assist Amy's Uncle with roofing his cabin on the Umatilla. Mark and Gail suffered a wicked fire last fall, completing burning their cabin to the ground. He just finished framing it in and is in the process of sealing it up before winter...
It wasn't all work, as Mark has 5 acres all along the river with excellent trout pools...to beat the 110 degree heat we did some snorkeling and found several spawning salmon in the deeper holes.
Elsa, of course, is a trout bum in training and was obsessed with petting the little redsides as we removed the #14 adams...
scott
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