Emily's Escapades » South Dakota

Something you don’t see in China….

emily — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:00:31 +0000

This house is being moved. They just pick it up, put it on a truck, and take it to the new location. The highways are usually empty so there isn’t much of a problem with blocking the road.

Back home

emily — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:00:27 +0000

Jon and I are back home. Here we are after the rehearsal dinner before Pete and Sara’s wedding.

Holler…

emily — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:26 +0000

I love the friendliness and quietness of South Dakota! We were getting some new vinyl for Grandma’s Creta’s bathroom which is being remodeled, when I noticed this sign.

The hardware store is big, like many other places. We were the only customers in there the whole time. Just give a little shout and the friendly men will help you with whatever you need to find.

Lots and lots of home-building/remodeling materials. It makes me excited to build a house when we get back to the US.

On the other side of the world

emily — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:02:51 +0000

Last night, Jon and I were driving his dad’s big pickup truck down the empty highway underneath a sky full of stars, listening to country music.

I couldn’t help but think of what we might have been doing in Shanghai. We’d be squished in the back of a taxi, veering around hundreds of other taxis underneath the city lights and skyscrapers, listening to the blaring of horns and some loud Chinese yabbering on the radio.

I’m pretty sure that not many people have “homes” both in a city of 22 million and outside of a town of 200. Each of our homes has upsides and downsides.

More photos from flying

emily — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:38:45 +0000

Some of my blog’s features weren’t working properly, but an upgrade fixed that.

Here are the rest of the photos I took when flying all around Howard in Jenny’s “Stinson Flying Station Wagon.”

Flying over the farm

emily — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:32:32 +0000

When I was home, mom’s friend Jenny took me up in her airplane (and even let me fly!) Here are a couple of photos from the flight. More to come tomorrow!

The farm, seen from the East.

Jason and Emily’s farm, from the South.

Ultrasounding cattle

emily — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:15:00 +0000

This is probably my last post from South Dakota photos for a while! (Until October, anyway.)

When I was home, Jason and dad spent a couple days ultrasounding cattle. Not to check if they were pregnant, but to determine their back fat and marbling and the date they would be ready to sell.

favorite photos

emily — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:12:00 +0000

Flowers Dad and I got mom for Mother’s Day and dad’s boot. Dirty, cracked leather… I like it!

Auto-steering tractor

emily — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:08:00 +0000

Everytime I go home we have some fancy new-fangled thing.

This new tractor has auto-steering. It has a computer and GPS in it. Dad needed to turn the tractor at the end of the row, get it about where he was supposed to start planting the next row, and the auto-steer took over. It drove the tractor in a straight line until Dad took over to turn around.

This computer/GPS also keeps track of things like what variety of corn was planted, what time, which field it is, etc. At harvest time, the computer is put in the combine, where it records moisture, bushels per acre of yield, etc. Dad and Jason can now keep incredibily detailed track of everything about a field.

Planting Corn

emily — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:58:00 +0000

Dad planting “Round-up Ready” corn.