The weatherman was right!

  A thirty-mile-an-hour wind blew in yesterday afternoon (you are looking at field trash flinging itself all over the road, on the fences and into the next field) bringing with it a very bitter cold front.

This onion farmer was rolling the last of the field trying to push the tiny seeds down far enough into the ground the wind would not blow the seed away.  Onion seeds are TINY.  And they are only planted 3/4 of an inch into the ground.  The roller packs and settles the soil on top of the seed protecting it.

The rain started around suppertime and stopped this morning.

  Farmers in the area kept going until it just got too muddy.

Then they were done. 

Some worked right up until they couldn’t drive their equipment off the field….every minute helps when you have way too much to do and way too little of a window to get it done in.

Terry and Misty didn’t work yesterday.  Having worked until dark the day before getting all the ground rolled.  Terry doesn’t like to ‘move soil’ when the wind is blowing.  (Our top soil then goes “who-knows-where”).   They will start leveling once everything dries out again.

On the bright side of this little storm we should start seeing green things popping up!

Now That is a wonderful thought!

Linda