Last weekend Nana and Pa took a much deserved vacation to Ohio and Niagara Falls. (They went to a wedding in Cleveland and then traveled with Great-Aunt Rosalyn and Great-Uncle Bruce to NY to see Niagara Falls) Little did they know that it would STILL be harvest season in November! They made the decision (like three days before they were supposed to leave) to carry on with their trip and leave the farm in OUR hands. And by OURS I mean Aunt B and Uncle C, but we helped as much as we could!
Dad and Uncle C (which Austin learned how to say while we were farming) loading the planter (maybe it's a drill...plant corn, drill wheat? or is beans? Oh heck, I don't know...)with wheat.
Our trusted supervisor was always near by. I swear he was taking mental notes of things to report to Nana and Pa.
Dad getting ready to put the tractor and disk away...
...but first Austin must go for a ride. I'm sure our neighbors appreciated hearing the tractor horn over and over and over again. 
The worst part... getting him out of the tractor!
It was then time to load the beans into the trailer...
Money, money, mon-nAY!
Aunt B did an excellent job of unloading the beans. There's no doubt in my mind that I would have had them all over the ground. 
It was finally time to get some wheat in the ground!
Mom and Austin making sure everything is done right...
"You think it worked?"
We missed Nana and Pa, but we sure had a fun time farming!
We are so proud of all of you for holding down the fort. A lot of phones calls were made from Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York back to Illinois to make sure everything was getting done. Now that we know you all can do it...we will start planning our next vacation. Do any of you have a preference when we go...planting or harvest? lol Love you all.
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Very cute!! Good job supervising Austin!! You did Grreat!
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