I had to chuckle

I had to chuckle at myself today while working. While I was driving the tractor today disking a field at the farm I past by my friend driving the other tractor (who is disking the same field), as I looked over in his direction I saw him giving me some hand signals. Hand signals are our way of communicating in the tractors. Somehow we figure out with the other person is trying to say while they flail their hands and push their face to the window and slowly mouth a sentence. I have to chuckle at myself, to the untrained eye, it may look like the two of us have a slight clue as to what we are doing. But if an experienced person were to watch, they would see that we, in fact, have no clue what we are doing. I’m just glad for the patience of my cousin and uncle.

My mind is wanderin...

These days my mind can’t help but wander, while I work I am always thinking of other things. The other day tempers were high at the farm. It’s been a pretty crappy summer for my uncle and cousin because of the rain and they are running out of harvest worthy sod. Piling was stressful that day, and while I was standing on the back of a tractor piling sod that was less then desirable my mind began to wander back to summer. I miss my summer experience; I miss the good times with friends. I miss the time spent with family. The last time the whole family had a day together was back in July when we spent the day in Wasagaming. I haven’t seen much of my family these days. I only see them when I come home late at night to shower and rest for another early morning. I don’t get to see much of friends anymore. Last time I hung out with friends was 2 weeks ago. My mind wanders most when I am mowing the fields, long hours alone in a tractor and my mind gets to dreaming. With all this time to think and all this time alone has brought me into a state of dissatisfaction… Damn…