Cutting Wheat

We were blessed to find and be able to bring home a combine to the farm this weekend. Farmer D has wanted one of these since he was a kid. His dad had one when he was growing up and he has some wonderful memories on it. He wanted to be sure to grant little miss E some of those same great memories for her childhood. For those of you like me, you may have no idea what a combine is. Well, this high tech tractor is used to cut wheat and many other things on a farm.

Definition from Wikipedia says...
The combine harvester, or simply combine, is a machine that harvests grain crops. The name derives from its combining three separate operations comprising harvesting—reaping, threshing, and winnowing—into a single process. Among the crops harvested with a combine are wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn (maize), soybeans and flax (linseed). The waste straw left behind on the field is the remaining dried stems and leaves of the crop with limited nutrients which is either chopped and spread on the field or baled for feed and bedding for livestock.

Seeing the excitement in Farmer D's eyes when he took little miss E for a ride was priceless.