Some more pictures around the farm

The Harvest Hosts folks here have been so nice to allow us to stay -- a total of more than a week! We have been able to take advantage of purchasing some pork sausage and beef to enjoy both while we're here and to take with us to enjoy after we leave.

When we got here, the grass was a bit deep -- I didn't realize that they planned to make hay from it!

One morning, a mower came through to cut the tall grass.

I had never seen a mower quite like this one.

I still thought it might just be mowing, but the farm wife let us know that they plan to bale hay off of that cutting.

Another morning, when there were no other campers around, Carl decided to get his drone out and practice flying it. He did several circles around the field, at a relatively low height (4-5'). He was surprised to discover that he had killed several flies and/or bees in the blades of the drone! What a mess to clean up all the bug guts out of the drone -- and one stinger managed to sting him even disconnected from its host!

We have been hearing such beautiful bird songs here -- this was outside our window -- one of the pieces of equipment that are stored around the field.

The bird perched upon it -- we think it is a black-billed magpie...

... on top of another item (a container) in the pasture. Note that we don't think this is the source of the pretty bird calls as the magpie is not a pretty singer. But he is a large beautiful bird!

We have also been entertained by Abby, the daughter of the farm family ---

... at 4 years old (!!!) she loves riding on the 4-wheeler!

This is looking toward the east one evening at sunset -- the colors in the western sky were unremarkable, but the eastern sky was gorgeous!

We were so grateful to this family for allowing us to have an extended stay on their farm! A week after our trip to the hospital, Carl was feeling 100% better. He got feeling better the next day after the trip to the hospital and starting the antibiotics, and although everything we heard indicated that the UTI should not have caused the pain, and the pain should not respond to the antibiotics, it was certainly coincidental that pain relief followed quickly after the start of the antibiotics. The professionals at the hospitals had also indicated that the pain may last as long as 14 days, but that it would go away on its own... so maybe it just happened to decide to go away about day 7. We are grateful to God that the pain is gone!