Thursday, June 26, 2014

Got rain?

I am currently listening to thunder and watching another storm roll into our area.  We had rain Tuesday evening and it looks like we may get some more within the next hour or so.  Today is one of the days that we pull double duty in the milk barn so I am really hoping it rains like right now before I have to head back to the farm. 

 
This is the view from my back porch right now.  Got rain?
 
 
This morning instead of gearing up to head out to the fields we brought all of the combines, tractors, and trucks back to the farm and packed them in.  The wheat harvest and planting is at a standstill yet again.  We've had a few summers like this in my lifetime, but this is the wettest June we've had since I was in high school. 
 
My dad is an extremely funny man with a great sense of humor.  The one thing that makes him the most anxious is the weather.  I've said before that we live and die by the weather.  He will never complain about rain because we would rather be too wet versus too dry, but at this moment I know he is willing it to be dry for at least a week straight.  Being in the fields is my dad's favorite thing to do and right now he is anxious because he knows he is getting even farther behind.  Plus doing the whole start and stop thing gets old very quickly. 
 
Even with all the rain we haven't had to cancel any of our tennis classes so far.  Our last class of the summer is tomorrow and hopefully the rain will stay away for at least one more morning.  And then my July will hopefully be less hectic with one less thing going on. 
 
Now the big question of my evening is:  Will I be getting soaked at the farm?


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