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A "restful" Sunday
Sep. 29th, 2008 07:02 amWonderful weekend! Sunny, warm, bliss. I was about to go for a long walk in the forest when my husband intervened with his typical "Sunday Farm Alarm". He was preparing a machine for sowing the wheat and needed two pairs of hands. My son was away at work (extra work), my daughter was on her way from Prague, so it was my son-in-law and I. Ha!
There was a biiiig dray (found it in the dictionary!) full of huge sacs with special wheat for sowing only: you recognise it easily because it is coloured from treating (dissinfecting). I went up on the dray, Borek (my in-law) was passing me the buckets, I was filling them and passing them back, he then was emptying them into a container on the machine. Sounds easy. BUT!
First, the opening of the sac was very narrow and I had to wrestle the bucket inside, load it, draw it out and pass the full thing to Borek. Using a smaller bucket would have delayed us very much.
Second, the dissinfect, together with the dust went everywhere. I mean my face, my bare arms and neck. As I was sweating, it was really a joy!
We worked like this almost one hour. Well, normally they fill the container with a big spoon on a tractor but it was Sunday and the tractor was parked in a nearby village and it would have been "a delay" too to fetch it...ha,ha.
All right, it was done, my husband left to do the sowing and I ran home, jumped to the bath and had a proper shower. If something lived in the sewage piping, it must have been dead thanks to the contaminated water!
I survived all right but today my arms hurt. No walk then, I had to drive my mum to the town.
By the way: I have got big problems with the words like sow. sew, draught, drought etc. Always I have to check it in the dictionary!
There was a biiiig dray (found it in the dictionary!) full of huge sacs with special wheat for sowing only: you recognise it easily because it is coloured from treating (dissinfecting). I went up on the dray, Borek (my in-law) was passing me the buckets, I was filling them and passing them back, he then was emptying them into a container on the machine. Sounds easy. BUT!
First, the opening of the sac was very narrow and I had to wrestle the bucket inside, load it, draw it out and pass the full thing to Borek. Using a smaller bucket would have delayed us very much.
Second, the dissinfect, together with the dust went everywhere. I mean my face, my bare arms and neck. As I was sweating, it was really a joy!
We worked like this almost one hour. Well, normally they fill the container with a big spoon on a tractor but it was Sunday and the tractor was parked in a nearby village and it would have been "a delay" too to fetch it...ha,ha.
All right, it was done, my husband left to do the sowing and I ran home, jumped to the bath and had a proper shower. If something lived in the sewage piping, it must have been dead thanks to the contaminated water!
I survived all right but today my arms hurt. No walk then, I had to drive my mum to the town.
By the way: I have got big problems with the words like sow. sew, draught, drought etc. Always I have to check it in the dictionary!