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Across the Fence:  PNW Washington Harvest begins!  |
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
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 Posted - Aug 21 2009 : 7:10:59 PM
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Well, I'm just beat. Too many parts runs, a new split rail fence that I created by slamming a header into it, too many beverage runs, and lots of broken down equipment. And, I am a little sick of my neighbors interrupting my crew attempting to get a hold of me about serious issues with their banter about the upcoming football season! And they say we women can talk. YEEK! I tell ya! It must be mid-harvest for my mood is turing as red as a harvest moon...
I look forward to Sunday. A real dinner in the field...
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
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Posted - Aug 22 2009 : 10:40:40 AM
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Amy, just know in your heart that if all of us MJF girls lived next door,,,we would be right over to help you out, but since we don't live next door, we are helping you in our minds & hearts, and after all is done we'd throw out a blanket under a shade tree & sip down some ice cold sweet tea. Oh & gab of cource! lol!
hugz
>^..^< Happiness is being a katmom.
"I've never met a sewing machine I didn't like!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Aug 23 2009 : 5:27:27 PM
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Alee and Grace~
Thank you so much. As for the gabbing, nut4fabric and I would have made you proud today! Kathy (nut4fabric) and her husband Jon came over from Moses Lake today to assist with my first Sunday dinner in the field - and it was even better than I had imagined. MJ's farm girls (and their husbands) are the best!!!! I made fried chicken, potato salad, green salad, canned pickled beets, fresh rolls, zucchini bread, and iced tea. I forgot the dessert! So, in true farm girl fashion Kathy brought brownies and saved the day! We all rode out to the field together and while Kathy and I set up the table and chairs and placed the meal on the tailgate of the truck (thanks Kathy for that suggestion) Jon went out into the field with the farmers and photographed the event. Jon, by the way, is a professional photographer. He is amazing!!! You should all check out his work. They came out to photograph farming in action. As for the gabbing, while Jon worked with the farmers after dinner, Kathy and I stayed at the table in the field under the warm sun, cooled by a slight afternoon breeze and chatted about our lives and families for almost an hour. It was a fantastic day and the meal was a great success all together. When the farmers went back to work, they were all smiling - something I have not seen all week. If this is what Mj's farm has done -bring farm guys and gals together in order to get the job done with a smile and a full belly, then I want to holler out a big thanks to MJ herself!
Until the next day...
Amy
For information on SUMMER SNOW please visit www.amywarwick.com
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ~Aristotle
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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nut4fabric
True Blue Farmgirl
885 Posts
Kathy
Morgan Hill
CA
USA
885 Posts |
Posted - Aug 24 2009 : 09:34:51 AM
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Let me tell you You have not lived until you have eaten Amys fried chicken and potato salad in the middle of a just harvested wheat field under a god given blue sky!!!!!! Thank you Amy and Wave for a most fantastic day, we enjoyed every minute of it and wish we could be there every Sunday to help with dinner in the field, seriously we would drive out every Sunday to be part of this. Not enough credit is given in this country to the farmers and their wives!!!!!
Huge hugs, Kathy (and Jon) |
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 07:19:35 AM
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Thank you Kathy! I made a comment to Kathy about having t a word with the farm wife up the road making 10 lunches a day and trying to show me up, well, guess what? Wave came home that night and said he was so impressed because he had never seen anyone do anything like what we had done. Keep in mind that my husband asked me to "set up an old-fashioned dinner in the field just like he had when he was little." Well, I recalled my grandmothers stories of setting up a table and chairs in the field and having a hot dinner. Apparently I was wrong. That was back in the days when they actually cooked dinner in the field - like the old cookies! Wave said he didn't understand what I meant when I said, "you guys ride around while Kathy and I set up." He was like "Set up what?" He told me that night that when "he was little" the women just brought out box of sandwiches and chips and canned pop and threw those at the guys while they sat on a combine wheel or crouched in the stubble and gobbled those done before getting back on the combine.
10 lunches a day! HA! Look what Kathy and I did.
Kathy, would Jon be willing to put a picture up on this site of our day in the field?
Many thanks!
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nut4fabric
True Blue Farmgirl
885 Posts
Kathy
Morgan Hill
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 12:07:48 PM
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Here are a few of the field lunch - the last image is Amy and her husband Wave.
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nut4fabric
True Blue Farmgirl
885 Posts
Kathy
Morgan Hill
CA
USA
885 Posts |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 12:09:57 PM
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Amy as much as I would like to take credit for the lunch we served you made it all, I only helped set it up. Sure was fun!! Hope you like these shots, Jon has sent you a link to the full bunch.
Hugs, Kathy |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Aug 25 2009 : 1:43:14 PM
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Kathy - thanks! And Jon - WOW! I think I will have to have the one of me and Wave. Thanks for posting them.
For information on SUMMER SNOW please visit www.amywarwick.com
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ~Aristotle
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 08:30:05 AM
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I can tell we are midway into harvest. I am exhausted and I no longer have that, "let's get up and get this done" attitude. It is 8:30 and I am still sitting here with my coffee watching the news about Edward Kennedy and nary a lunch has been made for the crew. I keep thinking about our upcoming annual vacation to the beach after harvest and roasting sausages over an open fire on the beach. I even went so far as to make homemade clam chowder just to be able to inhale the smell of North Shores. Ahhh, we shall see how today goes. Tomorrow is our daughter's birthday and Wave will not be here. She will be nine and is making her own strawberry cake. Grandma is coming over in the morning to surprise her while I run to town to get her birthday present that I have not had a chance to get and then we shall have a small party. Maybe I should make the guys shut the combines down for an hour and we should have cake in the field. Hmmm, candles in the field. Maybe not a good idea....
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Aug 26 2009 : 8:55:14 PM
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Well girls, I managed to finally screw up harvest! I was doing fine while the five kids were away, but once they got back I have been making mistakes like you would not believe. I sold peas I was not supposed to. I forgot the oil to change the oil in the combines. I even forgot to bring the crew their cold drinks today. I guess even us farm wives can get overloaded.
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simplyflowers
True Blue Farmgirl
489 Posts
Jamie
Locust Grove
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Aug 27 2009 : 06:28:37 AM
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Has harvest ended Amy?? Your pictures are great! Hope you're having a farmfabulous day! :)
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Aug 29 2009 : 08:28:32 AM
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No, we are certain that harvest will never end, but what memories we have had this year! Summer's birthday in the field went well. No candles though. Grandma put a stop to that one before I could even ponder it. I guess she has seen a few field fires in her life. After that, we had to get back to work and move combines to the next field. Dad slowed that one down by stabbing the tire of the header cart with a spike in the pea header. He was so mad we had to slow him down as he was attempting to ram the header onto the cart. Ahhh, mid-harvest. I don't think we are all as patient as we were a few weeks ago.
Today it is raining again. We commented over the radio while dodging cars and farm trucks that are no longer driving casually as we moved along the highway about the weird weather. No rain in Seattle this summer and 104 degrees. Here, in the drylands, we have rain, rain, rain. It is okay today though - at least for me. We bought concert tickets about 10 months ago with friends with no idea that we would still be in harvest. Wave has been crazy with worry about having to leave the field for a concert. That is just not what we do. Harvest comes first and foremost. With the rain Wave would not be in the field anyway, so maybe - just maybe- he will be able to relax enough to be with us in mind, body and spirit. We shall see...
The grandparents are stepping in to take all of the kids. My mom will take "the twins" to a POW WOW, Wave's mom will take the older two somewhere, and Wave's step-father and sister will take "the it" Jack. Everyone gets to enjoy some special time together. They are too excited - I guess we better get excited as well with all of these people putting their time aside to help us. After that, I will be getting them ready to go back to school while multi-tasking with farming and prepping for upcoming book signings in September. The pace never slows, but today that seems okay. So much to look forward to with school starting....
Have a great week-end...
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Amy Warwick
True Blue Farmgirl
102 Posts
Amy
Oakesdale
WA
USA
102 Posts |
Posted - Sep 02 2009 : 10:04:17 AM
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Well, we are almost done. Barring any breakdowns, we will be going camping at Dworshack this week-end, but I am not holding my breath. The kids are back in school. I am feeling mommy/author mode kicking in. Once harvest is done, the tables will turn and Wave will be the one supporting me by taking kids and making lunches. In the end I would summarize it all as one of the worst "production" harvests we have had, but one of the best "family" harvests. I am going to end this blog on the forum now in favor or getting back to my new book, but I hope that the enteries - limited as they were - allowed all of you a little peak into Pacific Northwest harvests. Thank you for all of your support and BIG THANKS to Kathy and Jon for being a part of the experience with us.
Until fall work...
Amy
For information on SUMMER SNOW please visit www.amywarwick.com
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ~Aristotle
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
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Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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Across the Fence: PNW Washington Harvest begins! |
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PNW Washington Harvest begins!
