- Garlic boxes waiting to be filled.
Garlic and wind towers
garlic!
Vegas
My dogs are traitors. Usually they are outside my door, waiting for me. But whenever there is a tractor to chase, Pepper is gone for sure. Vegas is too smart to get that tired or that hot. Or at least that is what I thought.
Eddie says Vegas catches bunnies. 
He better not catch my baby bunny!!
- Vegas, pooped out but still looking for rabbits.
- Two tractors and lots of sorters.
They run two tractors and it takes almost twenty people to harvest!
The wind towers allowed us to irrigate 120 acres behind our house. The well that was used during construction is now ours. Half of “the circle” was in wheat and the other half is garlic.
- Slow, repetitive, hot work – but everyone is laughing and talking. They throw dirt clods at Colt when he starts to fall asleep!
- Yum! Boxes of garlic! Eddie says I can take as much as I want, and to peel it and freeze it to use whenever over the winter!
- Break time! 15 minutes.
Our irrigated wheat went 105 bushels to the acre, a disappointment for Kevin who was expecting Palouse wheat: 130 bushels, every year! The guys are always glad when harvest is over, though, and the crop really was exceptional for us this year. It was, on the average, ⅓ better than usual.
- Great looking wheat…
The other 60 irrigated acres are in garlic, and our friends leased that land. Unfortunately the garlic doesn’t look as good as they had hoped. They almost didn’t harvest it.
- Dick spraying the garlic.
Nematodes or something kept it from being top quality. But ⅔ of it is passable, so guess what Colton is doing? Harvesting again!
- Uh oh. Colt has crossed over to the dark side and “gone green.”
Colt in his new John Deere
Colt has harvested garlic for six or seven years. It pays well, but is slow and painful. He drives the tractor at 1 mile per hour for days, while the workers sort and pick through it.
- Looking towards our house and shops.
He comes in at night, beat. Now he knows what long-haul flying feels like! And so do my dogs.
- Chasing grasshoppers…
They are exhausted, tongues hanging out, chasing rabbits and running in circle all day. Traitors.
- Eddie picking up palettes.
Normal problems...
At least you can stretch your legs!
Garlic. Lucky me! Next year I'll go out and dig some early, to eat like bunches of onions! Maybe I can make some Japanese gyoza: dumplings filled with garlic and pork!
