If you’ve been reading my little website or if you know me, then you may recall that as a teenager I had the best job on the planet…
Someone paid me to ride around backroads all day long unsupervised, eat a Hostess Apple Pie, drink leaded Mountain Dew and listen to my cassette tapes.
Occasionally I took breaks from this back-breaking task to do things like walk fields and take soil samples on farms.
I’d put my 4-wheeler in reverse, back it out of my truck and ride at top-speed for four seconds, stop, insert a long metal hollow rod into the ground, put dirt in a bag and then it was pedal-to-the-metal for four more seconds… wash, rinse, repeat.
Saturday, I relived my youth.
Except this time I was in a truck that doesn’t even HAVE a cassette player.
And I wasn’t driving. I was holding a baby and keeping a toddler out of trouble.
And someone was keeping much more thorough records of the areas sampled.
And no one was paying me.
And if I so much as LOOKED at any kind of apple pie I would gain approximately 1,000 pounds instantly.
Still, not a bad day’s (okay, two hours) work.
It’s a necessary task to make sure our soil has all the nutrients it needs.
That’s my “good” bucket, by the way.
This is Shelby’s Easter bucket.
It says “Pretty Cool Chick” on the other side.
I can’t imagine why he doesn’t have it turned around.
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Doing soil samples together is one of my favorite farmer’s wife kind of moments, being sent out on the 4wheeler in the cold by myself….not so much! Cute pics! Love the Easter bucket.
Anna, I think my memory is a bit rosy. I am sure I would FREEZE now. And then there was the time I was driving the 4-wheeler back up into the truck, didn’t lay the wooden beams just right once it was loaded and broke the window out of the back. NOT fun!
Feed your soil a steady diet of Flintstones vitamins and Wonder Bread — it strengthens 12 ways! (Or something like that.)
LOVE it! We are doing soil samples now too
I love the dusty dashboard and the kiddo in the front seat, the workin-man hands, and the Easter Bucket… it looks all to familiar to me!
C’mon Keith, turn the bucket around! I guarantee it will not take any macho away from the farm boy image. tee hee
You and I are the same. I love hanging with the Captain as he does the chores and helping when I can.
I always help Don. If he drives I ride with my door open and take the samples! BUT we had a new addtion to the farm – a golf cart. Soil samples might be an adventure this year…of course he will try to throw me off!
Ha ha! I can’t imagine why either. I like it when husbands have to go through stuff like that. It’s good for them, builds character. Like the other day when Brian had to go get me tampons because I couldn’t drive yet. Ha!
I want pictures, Cindi!
Thanks for letting me know that, I guess I have to be reminded of that. I think I tried to do that flicker thing once but get gun shy about stuff like that. Either way, hopefully pw doesn’t ban me from her site cause I made three comments out of 11…but it was the first 11(or whatever) Probably by the time I pushed send it was 18.
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I think it’s too funny when my husband ends up using the kids stuff as part of his every day chores. It keeps him humble
-Amy
Tessa loved that task this summer!! Me …I just had to mail them. Mail shouldnt be a problem but in Small Town WY where there is not a “guaranteed arrival time” for mail it is an issue!!
Water samples that are time sensitive? Even more fun!! Daryl mailed them in a neighboring town in NE and that went thru in record time. Dont ask me why we can not figure it out.