Ever felt like you need to slow down and just don’t know how?

Might I suggest a quiet drive through the country on a Saturday afternoon in harvest season? {smile}

After a busy morning with Mimi visiting, and soccer games, and going out to lunch, and walking around our fun little Main Street town, we were headed home with a truckload of tired kiddos.

Not even 100 yards after turning off main street, we stopped for a cotton convoy pulling out of one field and heading down to the next.

It included at least 5 pieces of cotton equipment and that black truck right in front of us with flashers. I’m not sure, but they might have a lead truck in front as well since the equipment was taking up the full two lanes (and there’s no shoulder for most of that road.)

We just ambled along behind them, snapping pictures, checking out the progress of the soybeans on the way, and speculating on whether that big yellow piece of equipment is a cotton round-baler.

We’ve heard a couple local people have them, and I’ve seen one field of cotton round bales, but we haven’t seen one in action. The vast majority around here are rectangle cotton bales like I talked about on Friday. Mr. Fix-It is pretty sure it might be, especially since we also didn’t see any sign of a cotton module or buggies. (He’s terribly curious to find out. He loves wheels, motors, and machines of all kinds, but especially farm equipment!)

They turned into a field about a mile down the road, and the pickers went straight to work on the cotton as soon as they turned in and headed down the farm path. We might have stopped for a minute, but there was a whole trail of traffic behind us.

If you’re out and about taking a country drive, enjoy it! This is a great time of year for it!

But be sure to leave yourself plenty of time. Country roads have special…challenges. We don’t have traffic jams, we have tractor jams. We don’t have “no passing” zones, we have can’t pass zones. (Ok, that’s a little poetic. We actually have a lot of no passing zones too!)

We use the extra time to play a simple game with the kids–What’s made of cotton? Or soybeans, or peanuts. (Or wool?!)

Did you know crayons are made with soybeans? 

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