Shana Gregory – 4G Harvesting & Trucking
Hello fellow HarvestHER‘s! I hope your season has started off on a good note!
We are on our 4th stop of the season so far (counting our own at home) and haven’t had any major setbacks, other than a couple of rainy days here and there and typical minor breakdowns. Other than that, it’s been fairly smooth cutting (2700 acres with one combine so far).
This morning, I get up and start cooking breakfast and making lunches for my guys. I was told before they left that I would be needed to help move later on in the day. I usually just go ahead and get ready for that very often phone call of, “I need you, like right now!” I hurried to the on-site laundry room to get our clothes washed before I got that phone call. Got it done! Then, decided to even run to the grocery store to get a couple of things I needed for supper. Got it done! Got the camper cleaned up (dishes washed and laundry put away). I even got supper in the crock pot. I was so proud of my accomplishments that I even decided to pop in a movie for a bit while I waited. That’s when I got the phone call. “I need you to go to Case and pick up a belt…like right now! Then just go ahead and come to the field to help us move.”
Hadley and I head off to the next town to get the belt and then head out to the field. After getting everything moved, I had barely enough time to make the 30 mile drive back to the camper to gather what I needed for supper to bring back out to the field. As I was leaving, I snapped a picture of water standing close to a wind farm and thought to myself, “that looks so cool”!
I hurried to get everything ready – attempting to beat sundown – so we could see what we were eating, but just missed it. Our daughter turns on the light bar on the bed of the pickup so we would have lights and it was solid mosquitos! Then I think back to the swamp water not far from us. Maybe it was just prettier in a picture.
Sometimes harvest life looks much better in a picture. But the truth is, the things I like most about this crazy life we live are the things that can’t be captured. It’s the love and hard work put into every single crop, along with togetherness, work ethics, and just having FAITH!
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