Once again it’s Veteran’s day. Okay… so it was about a week
and a half ago. I’ve been busy! I could do the whole ‘sorry, not sorry’ hashtag
thingy… but I really don’t care (and this a blog, not Twitter, Facebook, Insta,
etc.). Anywho. This year I could
actually take part in the veteran’s day festivities aka free/or discounted
food, discounted services, free breakfast (and I missed the breakfast!) and so
on. Normally, I don’t really care about these things because I don’t consider
myself to be a special snowflake and expect a parade thrown in honor of my
service. Maybe it’s also due to I’m usually in the field, combining corn like
it’s my job. It really is, though.
This year we were done before veteran’s day! Gasp, shock,
amazement! Fine, yes, it was THE day before but still, it was before veteran’s
day. The only other time I can remember being done that early was due to
drought and/or hail and there wasn’t much to harvest. We tried something
totally different and only planted soybeans this year.
Yeah, so it started to look pretty dicey there when out of
the whole MONTH of October we only got eight half days of combining. Yup, only
half days of actual, real, nitty gritty, dirty combining. The start of the season
got off to an excellent start end of September but then the rain came, and the
fog, and heavy dewy, no wind and no sun, days.
So when I say I’m excited about being done before veteran’s
day now you can celebrate with me because now you understand. There was serious
combining being done in November. Bonus, it’s not even Thanksgiving yet! Okay,
yes, we’re staring down the barrel at Thanksgiving but this year I am not a
farmer working away at corn harvest on Thanksgiving. I will give plenty of
thanks for that, believe me.
Talking about thanks… thank you to all the men and women who
are serving, and a thank to those who have served. It was honor to serve
with you and for those have gone before
us, thank you for your oath to defend our great nation.
And a thank you to farmers for feeding the world, one
harvest at a time.
