| Greetings! |
| This is the time of year when it seems Ray is changing the tractor implements every day - from the "bush hog" for mowing, to the tiller for breaking ground, to the bed shaper for preparing planting beds, to the scraper for scraping something, and back again. In the spring we are mowing pastures, tilling our fields as well as friends' gardens, tackling projects that we looked at all winter and back to mowing lush growth that has been encouraged by our wet spring.
For those of you not fortunate enough to own your very own tractor, a.k.a.meditation machine, (riding lawn mowers almost count) you may not know that changing tractor implements is a time consuming and patience testing activity. First you need two people with excellent communication skills. One person backs the tractor to line up three points (two lift arms and the power take off or PTO) and the second person directs them. Picture the person on an airport runway who directs planes to the loading gate, only without a snazzy orange vest, a Star Wars light sword and the obvious benefit of noise canceling headphones. "A little left. The other way! No, your left! Slow..ok just pull forward and try it again. Right there! Oh, you went too far. Yeah, yeah I love you too." This little exercise is certainly a better way of exploring your partnership skills than wallpapering a bathroom with your significant other and it does get better with practice. I'm just glad Chad was here to help at the farm this week. |
