Today we dug beets. After morning chores. Until evening chores. Roger made the comment that he could not drive the truck to Bay City load after load all day long, and he is grateful for the cows and the milking routine!
I get to drive the tandem in the field. It is one place where I really shine on the farm. Roger and the truck driver (usually me) have to be in perfect sync or the beets end up on the ground instead of in the truck! This fall when I got in the truck for the first time I was amazed to realize that my brain remembered the shifting pattern for the transmission. I did not have to look at the diagram to figure out how to go ahead or reverse or speed up and slow down. That is a good thing….I think. Or maybe it just means that Roger now will rely on my services all the time in the beet field.
I guess that is why I never try too hard to learn the whole milking routine!!!
Tags: Farming
