This is the machinery that does the swathing. I thought we were all done swathing but the fields aren't ripening evenly this year. Some parts are dead, dry and ready to go but there are also green areas that have to be swathed so they can dry out. So....this is a tractor and pull type swather. There are also self propelled swathers and we have an ancient one that is used for opening up the fields but this is the outfit that does the bulk of the swathing.
The reel goes around to push the grain towards the sickle or cutter bar and there is a belt that moves the cut grain to the opening that you can see in the center back of the swather. If you click I think the pics will embiggen. And then the grain lays in such nice windrows in the field. My dad always told me when I was out in a swathed field, "Don't step on the swath." If you need to walk out into the field you need to step over the swathes so that if it rains the rain doesn't accumulate in the hole left by your footstep. Sometimes it's pretty hard to step over a swath....they can be very wide.
And now for the knitting. This is a sock, (well obviously! or maybe not so obviously....it could be a mitten), in Dream in Color Smooshy, colorway Pansy Golitely. And also in the picture are my new Harmony needles. I like them. They are very pointy and seem to be making the knitting go faster.
And this, of course, is a Noro scarf. I'm fascinated by the color changes and the soothing sameness of the K1P1 and am happy to say that I learned how to bring a 2nd color along the edge.
The colors aren't really me though and I don't think they are really anyone in the family either. Well, maybe 2nd DS. But I'm hoping that our church's Ladies' Aid group will need something for fund raising and I'll probably donate it to that. If it had been red and washable it could have gone to Norma's red scarf project!
