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November 1, 2007

Farm girl

I’m married to a farmer, but that doesn’t mean I know anything about farming. I ask the same dumb questions every year. I don’t even know what I don’t know about farming.

But my husband loves it, and so I take my yearly trip in the combine with him, and I go for days in the fall and spring saying “Hello, good-bye” as he comes home from work and heads out to do what he really loves. He really doesn’t love his deskjob that much — he doesn’t feel like he accomplishes anything. But in the combine — he can look behind him and see what he’s done and feel like he’s made a difference.

That and the fact that he is OUTSIDE and he GETS DIRTY. What more could a guy ask for?

And so, I give you, Suzanne’s Combine Ride 2007

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I love watching the corn stalks as the shiver down through the choppers on the corn head.

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Just like PigPen, the combine leaves a cloud of dust and debris in its wake.

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Can you tell what he started to say?  That would be “Don’t take my picture”

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Amazing that it starts out at the front as cobs of corn attached to stalks and ends up coming out as individual kernels.

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Back to work he goes: “Good-bye honey, it was fun riding with you! ”

TTFN-

Suzanne

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When I'm not editing, I'm spending time with my family, cuddling with my pets, knitting, quilting, or reading. I'm also a part-time secretary for my local school district.

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  1. Vicki W says

    November 1, 2007 at 6:12 PM

    Cool! I want a ride!

  2. Deb Levy says

    November 1, 2007 at 6:55 PM

    It still amazes me! I am a city girl, but my Mother and her family grew up on a farm. When I was young (up until my teens) I used to spend time in the summer with the “farm” relatives….what a blast it was! To this day, I am a pushover for fresh picked veggies…nothing better in this world than fresh veggies. And I mean picked and cooked in the same day.

    Glad you enjoyed your ride!

  3. Terri P says

    November 2, 2007 at 6:41 PM

    That looks like fun!

  4. Tanya Brown says

    November 3, 2007 at 11:27 PM

    This is how dimwitted I am: I honestly had no idea that the combine stripped the kernels off the ears. I’d like a look at the machinery that does that.

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