Gearing up for harvest

This is the cutter bar sickle on the combine soybean head.  Don't worry, I don't know what any of that means, either.  Basically, Tom replaced all those little snippers which open and shut to cut the soybean plants.

This is a corn crib I came across on one of my bike rides.

And this is 2.1 miles from our house along the slab.

Tom's sisters and brother-in-law came by to pick apples, sit a spell on the porch, and have some dinner!

Tom is using his big boy toy, a dirt mover, to prepare the ground for his new farm driveway and shed addition. Dan and I highly disapproved of him taking out all the grass but we were overruled. The shed will be built this fall.

This bag of FORB is really wildflower seeds from the federal government. Apparently the government doesn't want it to be known that they are in the business of doling out wildflowers seeds as cover crop, so they call it FORB.  This is an experimental sample Tom will plant in the tall grass around the house.