Rain and wind has moved into our otherwise perfect little world of weather and we need it desperately - rain that is! Always gives a feel of fall in just the way it smells. Time to slow down: my goal was to rise early and be half-way done with my errands and back home again before the college kids even thought about getting out of bed! Slept right through the alarm and didn't come out of my coma until 8:30 a.m.! Oh, dang! When the kids come back to school, every intersection is jammed, traffic is backed up BUT, today is Saturday . . . so only the stores will be a nightmare! That's the only hangup living in a college town.
We drive by the potato fields everyday and saw the farmers rolling the potato vines which is the next step 'after' they spray them just to be sure they don't grow any bigger. Now, we wait a week or two and then they dig em' up!
The picture below is just an interesting but quite pretty weed adorning the roadside - just in front of the dead potato vines . . .
Bob will be working again for a local farmer and we call this 'potato harvest'. Schools let out for two weeks and people go to work in the 'P-tatoes'! I can't wait for the fresh potatoes right out of the field. Cameron usually brings Leah up for the experience of riding in Grandpa's potato truck and picking them right out of the field. It's a lot of fun but mostly delicious!
Here are some pictures of the field now - what they look like. There are no more straight, beautiful rows but a field of tangled dead vines with no distinguishable rows of any kind. You'll have to double click the picture to get a closer view - but it's not very pretty!
We're off to an early afternoon show (before the crowds get there) today and some lunch. We'll talk later.
4 comments:
Oh man. I loved potato harvest growing up. Some of my best friends have come from hours and hours of working together in front of conveyor belts picking rotten potatoes, broken parts, dead animals, rocks, and clods out. Ahh... I love the smell of SE Idaho in October.
Thanks for your comments Berta! And thanks for the digital scrapbooking tip. And one more thing-- school lets out 2 weeks every year for potato harvest??? You are kidding?! Does everyone go harvest? Does work get out too? What if you don't know anyone with a potato field, do you hire out or sleep for 2 weeks?
I'll have to remember his every time I savor a potato! Can't live without them and love them everyway there is to make them! Thanks for the lessons!
i can almost smell the crisp air and dirt of this photo. its a nostalgic one. well done me friend.
luv w
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