November musings.

November 2013.

The days are getting longer, the countryside is turning from green to golden. The crops are ripening and the men are very busy getting machinery ready for harvest. This is our life. Long days and hard work but with lots of rewards. Working together as a team, sharing the ups and the downs. This year is the best cropping season that we have had for 10 or more years. It is filling us with nervous anticipation and quite a bit of cautious optimism. We know that with our old machinery, it will be nerve wracking, with the hope that it will hold together, and not cause any fires. There will be delays in getting the grain delivered because of sheer volume of a good season and the speed at which it can be delivered to the bins, and there will be weather delays. Too hot and windy some days so harvest bans, and wet and stormy on others so wet grain, but we will get there.

This life is a gamblers life-gambling on the weather, the prices,machinery, health and team work. It really doesn’t get much better when you look back on a successful harvest. I hope that is where we will be by Christmas.

Fingers crossed.