A "restful" Sunday

[vera_j]

Wonderful 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!

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

That was a very 'restful' Sunday morning, it makes my morning wrestling with 3 very excited young dogs and a cup of coffee in bed seem like a nothing at all. And don't worry about 'so sow and sew' and the othe weird English spellings I have known some native English speakers, well educated ones at that, that can't get that right.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Ick! What a awful job. I admit, if it was me, I'd try to think of another way to do it (but probably only AFTER it was all done and I was showering).

I wonder if you could suck up the wheat in a vacuum cleaner and then reverse-blow it into the bucket... or punch a hole in the side of the sack (if they aren't meant for reuse) and fill buckets as it pours out. Or just have a smaller bucket to go into the sack to fill up the larger buckets to be passed on...I'd probably go with the last option.

Actually, if it was me, I probably wouldn't dare that much exposure to wheat. Some people with my problem get sick just from touching wheat.