Just another weekend
Well, 4 days have gone my since my last entry. Guess I should have something to say by now, wouldn't you think?
(This is a picture of a typical Kansas wheat harvest. Andy doesn't drive one of this type of grain truck, though... lol)
Yesterday, Andy was helping his boss's harvest crew. There was a young kid running the combine, and he loaded Andy's truck just fine, but when the kid went to pull away he forgot the lift the auger. He hit Andy's stack on the passenger side with it and bent it forward at about a 30 degree angle. Now his truck looks a bit funny coming down the road, sort of like a dog with one ear bent ... LOL.
This is really close to what Andy's truck looks like (before the "stack" incident... LOL)
One of the other trucks got stuck in the field, fully loaded, and twisted the drive line on it. The combine wouldn't pull it out, so Andy and I left about 4 pm and went out where the crew was then harvesting to get the tractor and grain cart. We brought it back, and pulled the truck out. Andy and the boss's teenage son fixed the drive line earlier yesterday morning. I always have such a blast with him in the truck, and harvest time is one of my favorite times of the year. (Just a Kansas country girl at heart, I suppose...LOL) We stopped by Allan and Rhonda's house for a few minutes, and then we both went home, I got home around 12:30 am. I am glad that when he is working, he doesn't have time to stop. It would be hard to still say no if we had time alone in that sleeper... LOL
Got up at 5:30 am to get ready for work. He had today off from driving, but was going to go run a swather most of the day for his dad, and had his and his parent's yards to mow. Hoping he gets time to work on his truck, but doesn't look like he will until harvest is over.
It was pretty funny, they harvested my mom's wheat the day before yesterday, and Andy hauled her wheat to the elevator... LOL
I worked yesterday, and today, but have the next two days off. Going in for a little bit tomorrow to "brain storm" with the manager to decide what topics need to be discussed in Tuesday's store meeting. Other than that, unless a chance to go with Andy comes up, I am just going to hang around the house...
(This is a picture of a typical Kansas wheat harvest. Andy doesn't drive one of this type of grain truck, though... lol)
Yesterday, Andy was helping his boss's harvest crew. There was a young kid running the combine, and he loaded Andy's truck just fine, but when the kid went to pull away he forgot the lift the auger. He hit Andy's stack on the passenger side with it and bent it forward at about a 30 degree angle. Now his truck looks a bit funny coming down the road, sort of like a dog with one ear bent ... LOL.
This is really close to what Andy's truck looks like (before the "stack" incident... LOL)
One of the other trucks got stuck in the field, fully loaded, and twisted the drive line on it. The combine wouldn't pull it out, so Andy and I left about 4 pm and went out where the crew was then harvesting to get the tractor and grain cart. We brought it back, and pulled the truck out. Andy and the boss's teenage son fixed the drive line earlier yesterday morning. I always have such a blast with him in the truck, and harvest time is one of my favorite times of the year. (Just a Kansas country girl at heart, I suppose...LOL) We stopped by Allan and Rhonda's house for a few minutes, and then we both went home, I got home around 12:30 am. I am glad that when he is working, he doesn't have time to stop. It would be hard to still say no if we had time alone in that sleeper... LOL
Got up at 5:30 am to get ready for work. He had today off from driving, but was going to go run a swather most of the day for his dad, and had his and his parent's yards to mow. Hoping he gets time to work on his truck, but doesn't look like he will until harvest is over.
It was pretty funny, they harvested my mom's wheat the day before yesterday, and Andy hauled her wheat to the elevator... LOL
I worked yesterday, and today, but have the next two days off. Going in for a little bit tomorrow to "brain storm" with the manager to decide what topics need to be discussed in Tuesday's store meeting. Other than that, unless a chance to go with Andy comes up, I am just going to hang around the house...
2 Comments:
I so don't miss Western Kansas. The wind blows 24/7, summer and winter are enemies to be endured, if a bird wants a place to rest it has to carry its own tree. Driving by a feed lot is such a pleasure.
I do have to admit, fields full of ripe wheat are beautiful.
Feed lots don't smell that bad really... it's the processing plants that stink to high heaven...
I have never seen a place where the sky is so big... or the sunsets and sunrises so big and beautiful...
A waving field of wheat, or acres and acres of huge sunflowers following the sun... or the cotton blowing in the wind from a magestic cottonwood tree...Nothing more beautiful to me than that...
Those of us who are descendants of the pioneers enjoy the challenge of the weather here... Living somewhere where the weather never changes is for those "retirement community living" sort of people...
Nothing like a huge thunderstorm, or 10 ft. tall drifts of snow, or 104 degree weather with 30 mile an hour wind (like today)... Only the stong survive in this country. I may not always love it (especially in the winter) but I would never feel at home anywhere else...
I'll get off my soap box now... lol
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