Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Just the Harrow and Me

Today was a beautiful day.  While it started off a little cool, it warmed up nicely to just around 70 degrees.  It was mostly sunny and a light wind of 10-15 mph.  Our neighbor came back today to finish cleaning out the barn at home and to clean out one of the barns at my place.  Dad and I were in the field all day, he on the planter and me on the harrow.  It is easy work, though getting jostled around in a tractor cab for hours at a time does get old.  I have accelerated my speed to High 2, which is about as fast as dad goes, though I don't open the throttle all the way.  Nevertheless, I was making very good progress today and managed to get all the fields that I was assigned done before 6 p.m.  We are in desperate need of rain, though.  Everything is SO DRY.  There is so much dust flying when I harrow, I sometimes lose track of where I've been.  There is a chance of rain tomorrow, so hopefully it happens.

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