Work usually doesn't fool around with morning chit chat. As I walked out to the fields at eight-thirty, I quickly noticed that Lois and Doug had already dawned the tractor and the weeder and were cleaning up rows of sunflowers. Doug spotted me and gestured with his arms in a sort of downward swooping motion. To my mind it registered as "to hill". Wha? I have to hill the sunflowers? Never heard of doing such a thing! That was a root crop kind of process. Well, I guess sunflowers are pretty big plants, needing an ample amount of dirt around their roots. I walked to the barn and picked my weapon of choice, and then confidently walked backing out. I must keep these tricks of the trade in my mind in case I too decided to take over the world one day. The two pulled up shortly as I was speedily "hilling" the soon to be monstrous plants. "No weed around them," I stood corrected... and thus my day began.
Weeding...
oops...
Still in the process of drying, but I'm excited that burlap has worked so well! It does have to be bleached though, with a tighter knit then the generic kind.
Reminds me of what I used to make in college. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
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