Harvest officially started yesterday.....for thirty minutes. Then we had an "everything froze up and the belts went flying" breakdown. Eight hours of labor later, and the combine is up and running again. It's been 20 minutes.
This will be our life for the next week:
**Lots of time at grandma's.
**No extra plans in the schedule in case help is needed switching fields, going for parts, or running food to the guys.
**Late nights.
**Sleepy kids.
**Combine rides.
**Swimming to pass a few hot afternoons.
**Tons of playtime with cousins.
**Helping plan and cook meals.
**Truck rides to the elevator for a lollipop.
**Playing in the wheat.
Our track record with harvest the past couple of years has not been that great. Here is what we are hoping to avoid:
**Trips to the ER.
**Breathing treatments.
**Steroids.
**Trips to the allergy doctor.
It will be tricky to make all this happen. One child will get to do all of the fun list. If the other child does all of the fun list, he will also be doing all of the 'things to avoid' list.
Twenty-four hours ago the above-mentioned allergy child was completely fine with staying at grandmas and not risking allergy-induced asthma attacks in the field.
Today he is crying because he misses seeing his daddy and he wants to be able to go spend time with him in the field.
Hmmmpph. This will be an interesting week.
1 comment:
I feel like I've missed out on a very important part of life by not every experiencing harvest. Need an extra hand?
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