Ups and DOWNS of harvesting...

Oh, the ups and downs of harvest. And in this post, I'm talking more about the downs... read on. Today while Dale and Shaun were cutting soybeans near Buhler they accidentally took down a power line... oops! Here's the short story... Dale was unloading beans into the cart and when he was putting the auger out/down (not sure which one), it got caught in the power lines and it pulled the lines down, snapping the power pole. Thank goodness no one got hurt! God's protection amazes us. Dale calmly got out of the combine, hoping that he would not get electricuted. It left black marks on the auger and bent the auger up, taking one combine out of action for the day. See below. By this evening, they had gotten a new auger, but it was too short, so it wasn't much help. So much for finishing that field today. At least they can fix these things on their own and not have to take the combine to a shop to be fixed.

Shaun cutting beans

The black marks from the electricity

The downed power line/pole
Shaun, Dale & Dorel putting in the new auger



The bent auger, oops!

On another note, I started working on a class blog today. We are supposed to develop a class web page by January and I found the school website way too complicated. So I decided to go for the blog instead. We'll see if I can keep up with 2 blogs! Come check it out... http://mrsortmans1stgradeblog.blogspot.com/. The only thing I'm not happy with is the limitations on font. Anyone have any suggestions to get cute fonts? Can you mess with the HTML? You'll notice I did figure out the slideshow. Maybe I'll put one on here sometime.