Page 2: The auction has come and gone. Good riddance! As luck would have it, we got an inch of rain the day of the household auction, but the sun was shining and the combines were running on the day of the farm machinery auction. So, neither of us had a good crowd. But, hey! Stuff is GONE!!! So, we didn't get as much money as we could have...all that extraneous crap has gone away! And now, hubby is spending his afternoons and evenings driving old, junky grain trucks for a local farmer. And coming home wanting sympathy for the hardships he has to endure. Boo hoo. Came to the wrong ex-farmwife for sympathy! LOL! I spent 30 years driving 2 ton trucks, with no power steering, no radio, no air conditioning, sometimes very little brakes, sometimes no lights...and mostly had to dump them myself!!! While he sat in his air conditioned (or heated) combine, with his radio blaring, getting impatient when I couldn't keep up. Shoe is on the other foot, now! I'm lovin' it! So is our son!
This is my first Fall in Illinois since we quit farming, and I am enjoying it! I've picked up persimmons and rubbed them through and frozen lots of pulp, I've been out raking and gathering walnuts and just generally doing what other people do in the Fall. :) Can't say that I miss spending my days and nites hauling grain from the field to the bin, unloading, racing back to the field--or babysitting the finicky grain dryer, or climbing a bin to put duct tape over a hole where grain was pouring out on the ground..... And then dragging home, dog tired and hungry--to fix a meal!!!!! Aaaah. Retirement is a wonderful thing. :)
