NOT!
There are some things I have learned to appreciate - the open space, the beautiful flowers,the deep ,emerald green carpets of grass on the hills... the smell of that freshly cut grass, and the wheat even. I am also surprised how much the growing of corn fascinates us. All summer we have gotten excited as those stalks have just gotten taller and bigger!
(Bryan thinks we have the smartest farmer in the world because our wheat and barley got harvested before the other farmers, and "our" corn is taller and growing faster than the ones out near Vilseck...)
BUT mostly? I can appreciate that we get to experience this, just for now, with the knowledge that it is temporary and we never have to do it again....
I hope. 'Cause then there's the downside to bountiful grains and emerald fields of grass - the fertilizer. Heavy, copious amounts of liquid chicken excrement that saturates the very air we breathe and everything around us...Not just once or twice a year like the rutabega farmers in Schweinfurt - oh no!
EVERYTIME they cut that grass, or plow that field, or it rains heavy, or the moon is pretty...whatever. All the time. Due to no air conditioning here - all windows must stay open all the time. Therefore, there is no escape. It makes everything reek! and causes our lungs to hurt, our noses to swell up and our eyes to water.
It also ruins perfectly good mornings...Nothing makes me happier and more refreshed than to end another sleepless night with the smell of cool, damp, fresh air coming in the window....Until it is shortly followed by the smell of wet manure and you start to gag...
Oh well! 2.5 yrs to go right?
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