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Visiting my mom in August. They had sold the motel and didn't have a house yet. We usually don't stay out where they work, but this time we had to.
My mom and her husband cut hay 6 months out of the year. They work from sun up to sun down almost every day. They get a few days off between cuttings so we went over to see them. For 6 months my mom and her husband stay in their camper out in the fields they cut. They get done cutting so late that it just isn't worth going home to sleep, and then get up early the next morning. They moved in April, and just two weeks ago they moved into their new house, so there was no house to go to when we were there. The fields they cut are probably 30 or so miles from Soap Lake. So what does a person do out in the hay fields all day? Jump off hay stacks, haul water (we also swim in the very shallow canal with mud and bugs) play in the dirt, watch the sun rise and set. You get the idea. We are good at roughing it, but we needed something to do. I like just hanging out, but I really needed something to do after a few days in the hay fields. Actually, after the first day I needed something to do. I would have cut hay all day if I could have. The one thing that is hard for me to go without is water for bathing. I don't care if I have to sleep in the dirt as long as I can get a few inches of it off every few days. That's where the canal came in handy. Well, I'm not sure if I was any cleaner after being in the canal. As soon as you get in it stirs up the mud from the bottom. Can you get clean in muddy water? I felt much better after a bath in the canal, so it must have helped a little. My mom really wants us to come over for Thanksgiving. We try to make it over, but some years we just can't.
The pictures: Christine showing me her collection of goat heads. You don't go bare foot outside. A few years ago I brought back a huge puncture weed for my neighbors. They had never seen or heard of them. The twin swathers that they drive in a big circle all day long.
Everyone have a good day and have a great Thanksgiving.
My mom and her husband cut hay 6 months out of the year. They work from sun up to sun down almost every day. They get a few days off between cuttings so we went over to see them. For 6 months my mom and her husband stay in their camper out in the fields they cut. They get done cutting so late that it just isn't worth going home to sleep, and then get up early the next morning. They moved in April, and just two weeks ago they moved into their new house, so there was no house to go to when we were there. The fields they cut are probably 30 or so miles from Soap Lake. So what does a person do out in the hay fields all day? Jump off hay stacks, haul water (we also swim in the very shallow canal with mud and bugs) play in the dirt, watch the sun rise and set. You get the idea. We are good at roughing it, but we needed something to do. I like just hanging out, but I really needed something to do after a few days in the hay fields. Actually, after the first day I needed something to do. I would have cut hay all day if I could have. The one thing that is hard for me to go without is water for bathing. I don't care if I have to sleep in the dirt as long as I can get a few inches of it off every few days. That's where the canal came in handy. Well, I'm not sure if I was any cleaner after being in the canal. As soon as you get in it stirs up the mud from the bottom. Can you get clean in muddy water? I felt much better after a bath in the canal, so it must have helped a little. My mom really wants us to come over for Thanksgiving. We try to make it over, but some years we just can't.
The pictures: Christine showing me her collection of goat heads. You don't go bare foot outside. A few years ago I brought back a huge puncture weed for my neighbors. They had never seen or heard of them. The twin swathers that they drive in a big circle all day long.
Everyone have a good day and have a great Thanksgiving.
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