Grain Bins or Lawn Ornaments?

All of this rain is starting to get old. Knut can’t get in the fields because of the wet crop, so we’ll just wait and pray for some dryness and a good dose of wind. They had about one day, or most of a day of harvest before the rain began. Knut’s been using the extra time to go out with the chainsaw and cut some wood for the winter. That gets pretty old in the rain too, though.

It’s the latest harvest in my short memory. As the guys get antsy, seeing their profits just sit in the field, and unable to get it, the wives try to keep them busy, and look for as many chores to do as possible. Poor guys.

But, you know, we don’t actually live on a farm. At least, not according to Silje and David. I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned this on the blog before, but if you ask either of them, we live in the country, but not on a farm. Farms have animals, they both justify. We just have Lena. If we lived on a real farm, we’d have chickens and cows and pigs. Darn you Old McDonald, and your silly song!

Silje’s class at school is going on a field trip to a farm today. Silje is so excited that she’s going to a real farm. Just in conversation with her teacher, Silje’s beliefs on this subject came up. Her teacher promised to talk about all kinds of farms, to help Silje understand better.

David, however, has no secondary source to confirm Mom and Dad’s story like Silje does. In an argument he had with Knut over this recently, he told Knut that we have lots of circle things in our yard. Farms only have one circle thing. Before you think crop circles, this is what he was talking about:

Apparently we simply have too many to be a farm. Tell me the logic in that. No matter how many tractor or combine rides they get, or no matter how many times they help Knut weight different samples of corn, and no matter how many semi trucks they watch drive by our house in the driveway throughout the year, they are not convinced. I’ll tell you what, if they’re right, I have the biggest lawn ornaments of all time.