Her Name Is Sandy...

Her name is Sandy...

In case you haven't heard...she's in the Atlantic, heading our way.  I'd really rather not meet her, but it looks like we'll be seeing  a lot of her the beginning of next week.  Hurricane Sandy is expected to wreak havoc in the Mid Atlantic.  As of now, she is expected to hit land in southern to mid New Jersey sometime on Monday.  That puts us right in her path, and we are expected to have a substantial amount of rain, and potentially damaging winds.

I tend to worry...yes, I know I shouldn't, but it's something I struggle with.  And yes...I'm worried about this one.  Not so much the rain, but the wind.  We're as ready as we can be...the generator is ready to go...we have plenty of diesel fuel...so now we get to wait and see what happens.

We are so very, very thankful that all the harvest is now finished...as of yesterday!  The combine was here on Wednesday and did the corn and beans, and Jim finished baling hay (6th cutting) last night.

Here the combine is full, sitting in the field waiting for the grain cart to come back from emptying it's load into the grain truck...

Just starting to fill up the grain truck for what I think was the last time...

After they finished with our corn, they put on the bean header and combined our soybeans as well.  Are we ever glad that's finished!  Any corn and beans that are still standing will look a little different after next week's storm.

I don't have all the final numbers, but we're happy with the harvest.  We had corn on three different farms, and the corn here at home yielded the best...an average of 190 bushels per acre.  We don't have bpa on the beans, but Jim was very pleased.

So for now, we'll batten down the hatches and hang onto our hats!