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Picking Cotton and Loading Bales

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I think cotton is my favorite crop. As someone who doesn’t grow any crops, anyway. I love the way it grows tall and dark green (compared to soybeans anyway), the pretty pink and blue summer flowers, the way the bulbs form, and then slowly fill, until they start to burst at the seams… I’m not a big fan of the smell when the farmers start spraying the defoliation stuff. Or when the plants turn all brown and stick-like and the cotton hangs out like wisps of trash…But I find the … Continue Reading…

Cotton Convoy

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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. … Continue Reading…

Pickin’ Cotton!

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We got home from church last Sunday to discover that it was cotton pickin’ time in Longview!  Our cousins were picking cotton in the field right next to our house.  This is the kids’ favorite, so they changed into play clothes lickety-split and headed out to the action! We’re not the only ones that love the action and equipment.  Our cousins are lucky to have plenty of help, running several tractors at once.  So I’ve got pictures of it, but keep in mind that each of these steps is going … Continue Reading…

Cotton Days are Here

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The start of cotton pickin’ season is here.  The sprayers are out and the cotton buggies are on the roads.  We don’t grow cotton, but our cousins (and just about everyone else that farms around here) grow some. It’s one of our (me and the kids, anyway) favorite crops to see harvested.  The boys like it because there’s lots of big equipment involved.  The Ladybug and I like it because after they spray and the leaves fall off it looks like snow on the fields (and that’s not something you … Continue Reading…