“Do you have a minute?” asks
The Farmer, on one of those glori
ous, warm, sun-splashed morn
ings we’ve been so blessed with
this October.
(“No” is not an acceptable
answere to this farmer-posed
question unless you really want to
mess up his already too-busy
schedule.)
“Sure,” I reply, peeking out
from behind a row of damp blue
jeans and summer-scuffed tee
shirts being hung on the washline
to dry.
“I need a shuttle,” he explains.
Shuttles are always an adven
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ture. And on such a spectacular
morning, doing anything outside
is preferable to anything inside,
especially tackling the stack of
mail and paperwork threatening to
avalanche off the kitchen table.
Enroute, we assess how harvest
is progressing among the fields
still scattered around our rapidly
urbanizing and industrializing
neighborhood. Most of the com
that wasn’t chopped earlier for sil
age has been combined, while
soybeans wait their turn. It’s satis
fying to note that a neighbor’s
late-planted beans are ripening to
maturity ahead of our first frost
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At this stage of October, every un
frosty morning is a bonus.
Trees along the way are begin
ning to wear a brownish-tint, a
hint that they may not color very
brilliantly this season. Too dry,
some experts have suggested, and
our local stands of hardwoods
appear to be reinforcing that
theory. Though swamp maples arc
showing some of their lovely Fall
reds, even those are softer, more
muted.
Our first stop is high on a hill
that overlooks The Farmer’s boy
hood home and haunts. Lovely
new homes dot the vista, inters
persed with strips of re-greened
stands of alfalfa and grass hay and
remaining small clusters of wood
lots. We drive to the far end of the
field, along a fencerow brightened
with briar patches sporting
maroon-colored leaves and fading
stalks of goldenrod. The dead,
bare “hawk tree” holds no hungry
redtail in its naked upper branches
on this stunning morning, luckily
for the rabbit that zips out aheadjof
the combine.
A brief conference between The
Fanner and The Fanner I, in the
combine’s cab, says we have trou-
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ble. The pickup, left in the field
overnight, refuses to start Specu
lating on a battery problem, The
Fanner hooks up jumper cables.
Nothing.
Fortunately, equipment opera
tor Bobby returns just then with
the empty grain truck, after his lat
est run to the mill. He backs the
larger truck toward the pickup and
they attach the two with a heavy
chain—kept handy for just such
expected emergencies.
“Do you think you can pull it
with that?” I tease Bob, as he man
euvers the grain truck into towing
position. His one gentle tug on the
chain stirs the pickup’s started
into action. One problem tempor
arily overcome.
With his “wheels” back in oper
ation, The Farmer departs the
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field—and me in hot pursuit.
Where did he say we were going
next? I hustle to keep him in sight,
and finally catch up as he parks at
the next harvest area. Shuttles run
more smoothly—trust me—when
you both end up at the same
destination.
Condensed again into one vehi
cle. we retrace our route back to
another field for a tractor and
loaded wagon. He departs in one
direction; I take the other. I beat
him back to the farm—but not by
much. Too much sightseeing.
The sun shines, the maple
leaves wave in the breeze, lliat
stack of paperwork beckons, like a
whip-wielding overseer. Sigh.
Shuttling equipment is more
fun.
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