Potato Harvest happens the 2nd & 3rd week in September. The kids get both weeks off of school and the farmers are extra busy! This year was a unique harvest, we got to witness the lords hand in the harvest, and experience an extended 3 week harvest (yes, that means the kids were out of school for a whole 3 weeks). Towards the end of the second week of harvest it stormed here for almost 4 days, when it rains that much the harvest gets halted because the fields get too muddy to continue gathering potatoes. Since SO many (like 3/4) of the high school students work for the farmers during harvest, that meant that sending kids back to school would put the farmers in a bind & keeping kids out of school would affect the amount of money our schools would get from the state (because their budgets depend on attendance). So, the superintendent made the decision to take a 3rd full week off of school. It was amazing to see the weather clear during that week for just long enough for the farmers to finish the harvest, such a blessing for this community.
The first week of harvest the kids and I had fun enjoying our free fries and getting our potatoes. We watched loads and loads of potatoes being hauled!
The second week of harvest Laex and Loa went and spent the week in vernal with Grammie and Papa - of course they had a blast!
During the final week of harvest it was just becoming too much time off school :) I put the kids to work helping clean up the Garden! Laex was pulling up plants and loading in the 'gator', and Loa was the designated driver to the weeds to unload the plants (if you make work fun, they don't realize it's work :)
--I had to get creative to keep them busy! It was hard being out of school this long, it was like starting school all over! We also got to go to Laexins school for the fall carnival!
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