I finally got the video to work. Now keep in mind this isn't the best play the girls made that day. Kara is number 5 and does a great job of setting it up for the spiker. I bet you can't guess what gym they are in, huh? Enjoy

This first picture is of Kara at a volleyball game. She looks pretty good for just finishing a game! I tried to load a video but doesn't seem to want to work, I will keep trying.
The next picture is Jerry & Kara sitting on the front porch right before it's getting ready to storm, Kara thought it would be neat to sit and watch it until she started getting wet. Spike was enjoying the fun as well.
While I was outside, i took a picture of the front side of the house. My flowers have done well this summer, so thought you would enjoy them as well. (except the green stuff on the dormer that was supposed to be cleaned off a while back and hasn't been done yet)

End of the Summer Out West

Well I am finally putting up the last of the pictures from the summer. Sorry it took so long but I got kind of busy with school starting. These pictures are from the last stop for Harvest Support in Minot, North Dakota and the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

We had to take a trip down into South Dakota to see a customer who had a huge job there. He has eight machines and had all of them working in this area. The first picture is of a combine unloading into a grain cart and the cart unloading into a semi. The second is of all the machines running in one field with two grain carts and two of the many semi's that were moving in and out of the field continuously. The last picture is of all the machines but one stopped for lunch. The one missing stopped early for lunch so he was already back out cutting.




This is what is called a North Dakota dinosaur. There is all kinds of old machines parked in pastures just sitting there. Farmers park them on top of hills along the roads for people to see I guess. It was pretty cool to see these antiques just sitting out in the open all alone where they used to run.


A few of the farmers and the dealership in Minot say that the New Holland combines look like bees so a few of them put stickers on the side of a bee like this one. They told me there is another combine that has the same type of bee with a Deer being stung on it. I didn't get to see it though.


These are a few pictures of the New Holland lot at the Farm Progress Show. The first one is the 9080 which is the largest combine in North America with 523 HP. It is only the largest in North America because New Holland has one in Europe, the 9090, which is the largest in the world with 620 HP. During the show I stood next to the 9080 and talked to people about the combine and the stuff I did over the summer. It was a lot of fun to meet all the people. They usually would talk to me more too since I was not really working for New Holland full time and had an honest opinion about the combines with experience to back it up.








Post by Kyle

August

Sorry this has taken me so long to post anything. Anyway, the first picture is the "birthday cookies" we made for Jerry. We made 49 no bake cookies, as you can see made them in the shape of a 49 along with 49 candles. It took him a couple of blows to put the fire out!





This is Kara's first day of school, showing off her new back pack.


As you can probably tell, Jerry just hopped off a water ride at King's Island (like the white "T-shirt and pants"). The next picture actually shows the ride, it is called the Awesome Aussie Twister. You have to lay flat with your hands behind you head. Once was enough for Karen. It was really fun to go down, but was the only water ride that was really fun.