Becoming a farmer!

Being a city girl isn't such a bad thing when I'm home in the city. Its when I get out to the farm that my husbands family loves to pick on me for being a city girl. :) I'm only kidding, they lovingly show me how to do things on the farm and laugh the entire time while I'm messing up. Oh well. About two months ago Daryl and I went to visit his family on their farm in Vermillion, Kansas. I've always loved going to their farm from the first time I went there. You get to do a lot of things that you can't do in the city. Like blowing up old ovens, but thats a whole other blog.
Anywyas, from the above picture you can see that we are standing on a Combine. (Not a tractor for all you city folk. I used to call everything a tractor, again another blog.) Anyways, Daryl's dad needed to get some harvesting done, so of course we offered to help. Well Daryl offered to help, I just tagged along, because thats what I like to do. I'm sure they think I'm funny when I find it exciting to do things that they do everyday. So when Daryl decided to go out and harvest some wheat, I HAD to tag along. Heaven help us!
I sat next to Daryl as he went back and forth through the field just fascinated by the workings of the combine. Wierd I know, but I had question after questiong for Daryl and I'm sure by the end he was completely and utterly annoyed by me. But hey, I can't help it. When I'm doing something new, I have to know EVERYTHING!! Then he does the craziest thing. He turns to me and says, "Honey, would you like to drive?"
My first thought was, ARE YOU CRAZY!!! Have you seen me drive my car??? (kidding, I'm an okay driver most of the time.) Then my second thought was, this is how his parents make their living, if I ruin this I'm in tonz of trouble. So of course I said yes, how could I not? He showed me what I needed to do, we quckly switched spots and went on our merry way.
Now everyone has seen how good farmers are at making beautiful rows while harvesting in their fields. NOT ME! Oh no, I had zigzags, I didn't know the meaning of straight. All the while I'm thinking, THIS IS AWESOME!! I' M FARMIN'!!!! I was able to do a few rows, then I turned it over to Daryl again. Of course he had to go back and fix my mess ups, but it was a blast. We even scared a turkey out of the field and I thought that was pretty cool. We later found out from his parents, that the turkey happened to be sitting on a nest of eggs and we didn't break any of them. Well, we know I wasn't driving when we went over the eggs. :)
Anyways, like I said, I love going to the farm and experiencing all these fun things for me. I think I talked about combining for a few hours and I'm sure the family was rolling thier eyes by the end. But it was great. I even got to drive a tractor, yes a tractor not a combine, later on in the day. I almost put that one in a pond, but again thats another story. :) (remember I'm a city girl, I don't know what I'm doing on a farm.)
So there is my fun farming story for today. I have plenty more where that came from. If I find more pictures, I'll add them on here. I'll also post a picture of a sunset I took on the farm while were there. Right before we lit off fireworks that shook the entire county!!! YEE HAW!!!!
See ya on the next blog!!!!!