Happy Birthday Jaylon!!!!

  Today is my sweet husbands 22nd Birthday!!  

He is working hard on his birthday swathing and baling oats :) He is such a hardworking farmer, wonderful husband, and is going to be a great daddy!!  

  I love you so much Jaylon and hope you have a great Birthday!!!

  HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAYLON!!!!!

Picking up the bales

 Now that the wheat hay has finished drying out from the rain we got, Jaylon finished baling it all and started to pick up all the bales out of the field.

  First he had to stack them in stacks of three, so they'd be eaiser to load unto the wagons.

They hooked the OLD john deere tractor to the wagons to pull the bales.  It didn't have any trouble pulling them though, thats a John Deere for ya  ;o)

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  Over on the other farm, Jaylon's boss has started planting the corn.  It dosent take him to long to plant a field with that giant planter :o)

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   I thought I'd add this picture on here, even though its not the greatest quality because I had to take it through a fence.  We were driving home from Sierra Vista last week and Jaylon stopped in Bisbee and showed me this old quarry mine that is a mile deep.

HANNAH
 

Baling the Wheat

  This past week another new toy arrived for Jaylon; the new Massey Ferguson baler.  It was nice and shiny red when it arrived, but now its brown covered in dust :)

                          Jaylon has been keeping busy baling all that Wheat that he had swathed

  I got to ride with him in the tractor for awhile, and that extra seat in the big tractor is Alot comfier than the one in the swather :o)

       They had to hook up an extra controller and screen in the tractor, to operate the baler. All the buttons and screens look confusing to me :o)

      Jaylon was working on starting to Swathe the Tritacali grass while waiting for the baler arrive.  The Triticali grass is SO thick and tall he was having to drive the Swather at like 2 1/2 to 3 mph!  It is going to make a ton of bales!
       But now they have had to stop baling and swathing because it rained yesterday so now they have to wait for all the Wheat and Triticali grass to dry out.

HANNAH

Swathing the Wheat

   The wheat field beside our house has been growing like crazy the past month.  Last week Jaylon noticed it was starting to head, which means its ready to be swathed.  The new swather arrived just in time last week.  Jaylon was pretty excited when it finally arrived, he's been looking forward to swathing wheat for awhile :)  Once he finishes the wheat field, he has to swathe quite a few fields of Oats and Triticali grass.  Then once the new baler arrives, they are going to bale it all.

                                       

I got to ride with him in the Swather for a few hours, it was alot of fun :)

We saw this coyote three different times while we were in the swather.  And then when it started to get dark we saw a herd of Mule deere.

I had to add this picture of Bandit.  He was having so much fun playing in the wheat. He was trying to catch a lizard

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  39    Right here, you plant a grain of wheat in the ground, it'll always be a grain of wheat. Cockleburs may be all around it and everything else, but it'll be a grain of wheat as long as it stands. Is that right? And if a man's really born of the Spirit of God, he isn't in and out, and back and forth, and here out yonder in the world and out here. No, sir. No, no. You're not a cocklebur one day and a grain of wheat the next day. God don't have that in the field. Yes, sir, if you're born of the Spirit of God, you're a Christian from that time until the--till you go away, and then you're--you're immortal with God. That's right, if you're in the church.

Weather Balloon + digging in the dirt

  Hello Everyone!!
  About two weeks ago Jaylon brought this giant mangled balloon looking thing, home from work with him.  It had landed in one of our fields.  I had no idea what it was lol, Jaylon said it was a NOAA weather balloon that had come clear from Los Angeles, CA.  I decided to google about weather balloons to learn more about it.  And what I found out was quite interesting....  I found out that the NOAA National Weather service launches weather balloons from 102 sites in the U.S everyday to help with the weather forecasting.

     This is the battery powered instrument that is suspended below the weather balloon while its floating through the air.  After they release the balloon it rises 20 miles in the sky, while its in flight the instrument obtains data for wind direction, speed, changes in the atomosphere, and helps them identify severe weather.  The data is sent to a ground receiver that sends all the information to the NOAA national weather service.  Once the balloon reaches 100,000 feet it eventually pops and falls to the ground.  And one of them so happened to fall into our field   :)

This picture off the Internet sort of gives you an idea of what the balloon looks like when its floating through the sky

  I though it was all pretty interesting, and I learned something I never knew before :)




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       Two weeks ago Jaylon had to dig up some of our back yard with the backhoe, to work on the sewer.

Me and Bandit were sitting outside watching, enjoying the warm sunshine :)

But then the sunshine got a little to warm for Bandit haha 

                   
         The other day it got Really windy and this Giant tumbleweed rolled to a stop beside the house.  It was almost as high as my shoulder.  (sorry the picture got a little fuzzy)

We finally got some rain here on Saturday, thank the Lord!  We havent had rain in almost 3 months, now the air smells fresher and its not so dusty :)

Have a blessed day!!

HANNAH

Update

  Hello Everyone!
  This post is just a little update on whats been going on the past month.
 Probably the most exciting event from this past month was that we found out we are having a boy :) We are so excited!!  We finished painting the nursery a few days ago, now we are waiting for the crib to come in the mail :)       Its all so exciting, and hard to believe that he will be here in just 17 weeks!!
 I will post some pictures of the nursery once I get it decorated.
    My Grandma and Grandpa from PA stopped by our house to visit a few weeks ago.  Unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures.  It was very special to have them here, we had a great time :)

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              Jaylon planted wheat as a cover crop in the field behind our house, it has started growing like crazy the past couple weeks.  Its so wonderful to see some green, everything is so brown and dry right now.  I love to walk past when the pivots running, it smells like rain :)

  A couple of days ago it was windy and cold, and the mountains got snow!  Unfortunately the snow didn't come down to the valley.  But at least I could see it in the distance :)

         The pecan trees are still pretty full of pecans.  Jaylon climbed up and shook some branches and we picked up a whole bunch.  The dog was excited when the pecans started falling from the trees, he was eating them as fast as he could lol

               The pecans sure do taste good, especially in a freshly baked pecan pie  :o)

                      Last month I went with Jaylon when he was starting pivots and changing pivot nozzles.  Of course he had to try and spray me with some water lol ;) he got me pretty good.

                     This happened back in December, but I thought I'd add these pictures on here :) My mom had just called and told me that there was a bald eagle in the tree behind her house.  And then about an hour later I look out the window and see one sitting on one of the pivots.  So I grabbed my camera and tried to get as close as I could to get a good picture, but he flew off before I could get very close.  I did get a few though, I had zoom them way in so they got a little fuzzy.

Well, as you can tell this wasn't a very busy month and I didn't take too many pictures.  There should be some exciting things to blog about in the month to come, though :)
Have a great weekend!

HANNAH