Winter is the time you do all the projects your wife has been wanting you to do. Or your father. Bush hog the fields. Work on equipment. Fill up the freezer. Some grow a winter crop. Tonight my kids worked overtime bush hogging all the fields for winter.
Farming combines long hours, economic risk, constant repair, and seasonal urgency.
Dinner is usually whenever you can work it in. Farming is a 24/7 job.
Why does anybody work so hard? In the end, it's the willingness to look up from our plodding feet, figurative or otherwise.
I wouldn't trade it for anything though.
