Wednesday July 2nd - Left for Burlington CO in the morning, about a 130 miles. Set up the house trailers and then Chad and I headed back to Leoti for the grain cart and tractor.

Thursday July 3rd - Had some free time in the morning and then worked on the equipment in the afternoon. Set the combines in town with the for hire sign in the window. We are out of work till our next job is ready in Holyoke CO.

Friday July 4th - We are staying about a half mile from my brother in laws brothers (Kraig and Janette Weaver) place here in Burlington. Kraig had went on harvest with Eric back in the 90s. Kraig took us prairie dog hunting in the morning. A ton of fun, shot two boxes of shells through the .243 cal rifle. We were shooting at them up to 300 yds away. If we go again I will try and get an video. Went swimming in the afternoon with the Slagell guys. Had a cookout at the Weavers place and then watched fire works in town. Went back to Kraigs place and threw a flaming toilet roll around. Soak a roll of toilet paper in gas and then light and throw around in the dark. It looks really neat and doesn’t hurt if you don’t hang onto it for very long.

Saturday July 5th - Found some work. Cut about 350 acres for a local farmer. Took all day because we had to unload everything and we didn’t get an earily start.

Sunday July 6th - Went to the Weavers church in town. Went swimming and prairie dog hunting the rest of the day till we got rained out.


Tuesday July 8th - Got to cutting by noon and cut to about 8 when we ran out of ripe wheat to cut. We cut a field that averaged 54 bu an acre with test weight of about 62.5 which is pretty good for dry land wheat out here. There are some decent sized elevators out here. Nothing like Hutch but better then most.

Monday July 7th - Loaded everything up and decided to leave for Holyoke Colorado. Was a 90 mile trip so we got everything unloaded by supper.

Wednesday July 9th - Looked at some wheat in the morning and then tried to cut some in the afternoon but was still to wet. It would be nice to be able to have some stuff to cut at all day but what can you do when it doesn’t dry down very fast. We are staying at the fair grounds in Holyoke so there is about 8 different crews here and none of them are working yet. A lot of machinery sitting around this town. Went praire dog hunting in the evening. Were shooting at some dogs at 400 yds.