Harvest is....

• Family teamwork to the max
• Being teased on the CB's and not being able to defend oneself because "oneself's" CB isn't working :)
• Feeling close to your family
• Watching the sun go down nearly every night for weeks in a row

• Sitting 'round and doing nothing one second.... then being in an insane rush the next

• Racing certain family members across the field with tractor and combine ("winks" to gramps :)
• Playing hide-and-seek with little brother in the tall slough grass when we are parked beside it
• Listening to the sounds of the night
• Reading story after story to siblings
• Reading to myself for hours on end while waiting for the combines to fill up

• Rushing to get canning done in the morning so that you are free to combine in the afternoon
• No air conditioner
• Sweaty
• Dusty 
• Itchy
• No complaining even though every single person has lots that they could complain about
• Coming inside at midnight to find your sisters watching a movie, then sitting down to help them finish watching it... being too tired to sleep
• Being extra specially glad to see the F-350 coming into view around suppertime
• Chorusing our "very good's" on the CB to the girls at home whom ALWAYS made VERY GOOD meals

• Seeing the joy on toddlers' face as they ride in the combine with Grandpa/Daddy
• Hearing little brother say "when I grow up I want to be a grain cart driver"

And last but certainly not least

Harvest is.....

DONE!!!!