Stephanie Osowski – Olson Farms
When I first starting blogging back in 2012, I never thought it would be something I would enjoy. I also never thought it was something I would be good at, let alone that someone would pay me to do it (thanks a mil, HPJ, and see you again in August). Spoiler alert!
Better just throw that out there now — I’ll be appearing in the All Aboard Wheat Harvest blog once again when harvest rolls around up home. Excited?! That’s an understatement. It’s become such a part of my summer that it wouldn’t seem right without it.
Anyway, back to the whole “when I first started blogging” bit. After a couple of summers of blogging, my brain turned into one giant, constant narration of my own life. As in the commentary in my head for even going to the grocery store could have been jotted down and thrown on the blog. “Cruising around the corner with such determination like I’ve really got somewhere to be, which I do; the frozen food section. God knows that stuff’s not gonna melt before I get there but you’d never know by my pace.” That sorta thing, 86.7% of the time. And the summer is my jam when it comes to the blog so it comes even more naturally now than any other time of year.
Our schedule has been the following; spraying, filling, rinsing, repeat. Not a whole lot more to report on the farm front other than that. I’m just ready for the combines to come out.
I’m going to go ahead and share this next bit even though it throws me under the bus. The other day, I took a photo of a head of wheat in one of the fields we were spraying. It looked ripe, so I put it on my SnapChat with what I thought was a punny caption, “we have an early bloomer”. God bless America, one of my agronomist friends, Karmen, saw it before too many other people did and corrected me and told me it was actually a bleached head or scab, which can be caused by not spreading fungicide soon enough after flowering. We were spraying that day so it’s fine. Look forward to more Agronomy Tips from our very own Karmen in the future, so then we can all learn something.
1. Be ready to go at the drop of a hat...sometimes without a lunchbox.
2. Has removed the word impossible from her vocabulary!
3. Can hold a baby, take care of a toddler and drive a tractor or combine all at the same time.
4. Must be able to cook for a crew - large or small.
5. Must be able to read minds.
6. Must be able to banter with a parts man until he realizes you DO know what you're talking about.
7. Must be the entertainment director for those rainy days.
8. Be a wife, mom, friend, helper, cook, problem solver, taxi driver or extra crew hand at all times.
9. Can handle the call that makes you react, "You need what? When?" Dropping everything you're doing to make it happen.
10. At the end of the day say, "I really do love this life".