The things I do for my hubby & his brother...

Part of being a farmer's wife is being "on-call". Kinda like a doctor. Only obv not as important. You never know when they will call & say "Bring me this, Come get me & take me here...". I do not like this part of the job.

Yesterday I rented the movie Twilight on pay-per-view & before Brad left I told him, "Don't call me, don't text me - I'm not coming to the barn & I'm not takin' ya anything while the movie is on!" (The movie is excellent, btw...) So, I guess I had it coming. That's what I get for being mean! :-(

He calls about 5:00 & says he forgot to get the GPS for the sprayer. Oh yeah, we're fancy farmers! It really is a good investment because it tells them exactly where they need to drive so they don't "double spray" or "double plant" where they've already been. In the past, you just kinda have to use your eye balls & look @ the marks in the field. This helps save us money in chemicals & seed. It costs quite a bit up front, but we have def earned our money back.

So he says I need you to bring me the gps so Brian can use it to spray. I pouted & pushed out my bottom lip & stomped around the house & then I said ok. I'm thinking, "ok, it won't be TOO bad, they're probably right down the road..." So I ask what field they're in... Georgetown. That's right, I said Georgetown. It's the field the farthest away from us. It's like 1/2 hour one way when the others are like 10-15 minutes away. I got up & got dressed & grabbed the gps & was on my way.

Another charming thing about this field is that it's hella far off the road. It's basically a driveway that was added into a forest of trees & a creek.

I had to drive my car through the water. I wasn't real happy about it, but what else was I gonna do? Plus, it really wasn't THAT deep!

Brad was rinsing out jugs of chemicals & Brian came over & got the gps. Then he told me that he didn't care what he'd said about me in the past... I was "ok" & thanks for bringing it to him. So like any good sis-in-law, I flipped him off & told him you're welcome!

Then Brad decided that maybe I should wait because he wasn't sure if Brian would need his help anymore & that maybe I should take him back to the barn so he could spread fertiziler.

So, I waited...

And then Brad thought maybe we should drive over to where Brian was to see if he was ok because we hadn't seen him for a few minutes. THIS is the creek we would've had to drive my car over.

I put my foot down & said NO WAY! (He called him on his cell phone...)

P.S. Remember how I told ya stuff would break & drama would ensue?! Well, it's happened already! A guy we have help us changed the oil & filters in our Case tractor (the one in the pic on the top of the blog...). He didn't use the right wrench thingie or somethin' & he broke a stud inside the tractor. Now, I don't know what all that means, but Brad was pretty upset about it because he thought they were gonna have to tear the tractor apart to fix it. But we found out which parts they were & it's not gonna be TOO bad to fix. Now all that's left is to stop what they were doing & then fix it. (See how sometimes it seems nothing gets done?!)