Sunday, November 2, 2008

RAIN

There have been bumper wheat crops up here this year. We can see some of the silos from the van and the trucks are emptying out day and night. Long, long trains have been picking up the wheat from the silos for the last 10 days. The park is housing many of the workers.


Now suddenly tonight, it has begun to rain heavily, in bursts. So far, we have had an inch and it's still going. What is this going to do to the wheat??????

There's a vacant lot opposite to the entrance of the caravan park and the wheat trucks park there when they are not in use. It's crowded at present. If we see them leave in the morning, we will know that some outlying farms have been spared the rain.
I can't begin to think how heartbreaking it would be to rejoice in a bumper crop, only to have it ruined by the rain ----- the rain that was responsible for growing it so well. Mother Nature is so fickle.

Why isn't this rain falling at home? Farmers there didn't have a great hay growing season and would probably welcome this deluge.

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