Planting potatoes......

Planting started this week, the rain finally let up enough to hit the fields. This picture was taken in front of our house. After all the rain we had, its hard to imagine that the dust would be flying this soon. Here you see Pete in the Case IH working up the fields.
This next two picture were taken at Wilson's. It is about 80 acres and these potatoes are going to enjoy the view of the ocean. At least for a little while.

And here is Klaas, planting away in this big field, trying to get to the other side. He did well, and planted about 45 acres today. At that rate we will be done in no time.
The next few pictures show how the sets go into the planter. It takes a lot of equipment to get the job done.The pipe on the far left is part of the fertilizer auger. It fills the planter with fertilizer.

Reggie, with a big smile on his face, fills the planter up with sets. It takes a crew of good people to get the job done right. And we are very blessed to have such a crew.

After today we are almost 1/3 done, so all is well in potato land. Will try and keep you up to date.

Coming soon.....spring

We are hopefully going to start planting tomorrow. And if possible, I want to take pictures and post some here. It has been fairly wet here this spring. After a winter with lots of snow and very little frost in the ground, we thought that we were in for an early spring. But that was not to be.

Trees are getting their leaves now and the service berry tree by our house is almost blooming.

Not sure if that is late or not. But I'm sure that in most parts of the country, they are already done blooming.

Last week we had a lot of rain and specially the fields that were plowed in the spring are going to need some extra time to dry out. And the grass is so green, we can hardly keep up mowing it between showers.

You can see there are not too many leaves on the sugar maple in front of the house.

Last picture is for all you older kids that think that Caleb and Damaris don't do chores.

Here is the proof that they can work really well together in the kitchen and work well together.

Hope you have a great long weekend.