Megan Klinnert – Klinnert Harvesting

We finished in Flagler, Colorado a week ago. Lots of hail there, too. I feel like a broken record with the hail line because everywhere we have cut has had it. The farm average was in the mid 20s.

We were loaded and ready to head to Montana to help cut some wheat there when we got a call that most of it wasn’t ready so we regrouped and moved combines to the San Luis Valley (Colorado) to cut barley. The kids and I drove home while the guys moved equipment to the Valley and then they headed home, too. Apparently the night we left Flagler, they had one heck of a storm blow through and had some big hail! I’m glad we missed that!

It’s been a nice break for us to catch up on some stuff at the farm. We brought some weather home with us, though. The third night we were home 70-90 mph winds came through. I honestly thought our house was going to blow away. We were lucky and had very minor damage – broken tree limbs and a tipped over feeder. A local farmer did have some of his roof ripped off his barn that he was storing some wheat in a couple of his trucks.

We were able to catch all of our calves and get them worked. We usually do this in the fall but it’s looking like our work in the Valley and milo harvest could run right into each other so we decided to do it now while we had the time. Randall’s dad had some bluestem bailed up so we took a day to move that home. Our grass it looking pretty terrible and I have a feeling we will have to start feeding hay early this year to keep our cows in good shape to calve this winter.

The kids have been soaking up time with grandparents, aunts and uncles. Wade could live outside with all the animals if we would let him. We got the call yesterday that they are starting to swath the barley so we will head back to Colorado this weekend to get our pickup headers ready and to get to work on barley.

I’m anxious to get to the mountains. It’s gorgeous and a nice break from this Oklahoma heat!