Memoir Monday {No. 42} ⋆ A Delightful Glow

To start the week off last week~

Here comes my farmer wearing the hat of hired hand and helping cut corn on some of the irrigated circles where he checks the systems through the summer!

There goes my son! Glimpse him through my dirty windshield! Running to go ride beside my husband and his dad.

They’re pulling one of those mega grain carts I mentioned in last Monday’s post! 🙂

Landscape. Open and wide! Elevator in the distance. I’ve seen this view many times in the last seventeen years and I don’t tire of it. I know many people think Kansas is flat and boring, but it has a beauty all its own to me.

It’s off to the field. We would love to get some rain, but it’s time to get some wheat drilled.

Cultivating and trying out a packer of our neighbor’s ~

Checking out the wheat that has been drilled. Dust kicking up!

A drill and a bag!

Gotta love bags to help get lunch delivered!

I don’t have to do the work, but I love wheat drilling. It’s such a pretty time of year. It can be cold, but usually we have at least a few days that are what I call perfect wheat drilling weather. They are perfect fall weather days, too.

Clear blue sky, but with a crispness that is different than the feel in springtime.

Sunshine.

Beautiful, mellow dirt in the field.

And I love the way a freshly drilled field looks.

Our dump truck. It makes me smile. I like the color scheme.

THIS tractor.

I rode in this tractor with my boyfriend. A buncha years ago.

This tractor is part of the family. {I’m funny like that.}

I rode in it again this past weekend, while my farmer drilled wheat. We’d thought we would attend an “I Still Do” simulcast event if it rained, but it didn’t, and that meant work in the field because, wheat drilling, and that’s kinda, sorta important since that’s how we make our living and all. 🙂

We watched some friends’ volleyball game.

My cell phone front cover piece broke. I super glued it. Hoping it stays together.

We picked apples at our neighbors who so kindly shared with us.

Tucker set a box trap at my husband’s brother, to help Dad out. When Matthew parked his seed wheat truck in bro’s shed, a racoon disappeared up under the roof. We don’t really want our truck’s tarp cover chewed through. Hopefully the trap will lure Mr. Racoon before the wheat in the truck does.

Impromptu get together ~We spent a couple of hours over at our friends’ house, relaxing and watching a movie.

We hosted a birthday party. It was fun to prepare for.

We played with our baby niece, who isn’t really such a baby anymore. She chatters and giggles and repeats much of what we say. And in just a couple of months she will be a big sister, so then we really can’t say she is a baby.

We had gorgeous, gorgeous fall weather on Sunday and made last minute plans to go to the Wildlife Park with brother&sister-in-law and baby niece, who’s-not-such-a-baby. It was a lovely day and we got some great laughs out of Miss A. as she drank pop. Big eyes as she sucked on the straw, then funny face or shake her head and exhale and then a funny “ffffffff” noise!

There was a little girl, about three or four years old at the zoo. She was a cute little girl and she was wearing a dress like one that Renae has right now. Just in a smaller size. {Obviously.} She had her teddy bear with her. It was sitting in the stroller and we noticed her go over and get him and take him over to the bunny she was petting. She squatted down and helped her teddy bear pet the bunny; then she returned him to his spot in the stroller. It was so funny and cute. It reminded me of the many times Renae’s doll, Amanda, ventured along on outings with us.