Audra Zimmerman – Zimmerman Harvesting
Well, our wheat harvest is over for 2017. It actually ended on July 5th when we finished our last job in McDonald, Kansas.
Since we are ones for thinking “outside the box” we decided not to follow the rest of the harvest crowd north. We just felt there would be one too many harvesters looking for work in the drought-stricken states of North and South Dakota and Eastern Montana. So, we packed up and moved south. Yep you read that right, south.
It took a good deal of looking for work and lots of prayers, but we found our first job shelling corn in Central Texas this week. The above average rainfall earlier this year has blessed the farmers with a record corn crop in this area of Texas.
So these “wheaties” are now onto finding fall work. We have decided that we will not be going back to Northwestern Ohio this fall. We have actually had flooding at home and too much rain is making a bad fall crop this year.
1. Be ready to go at the drop of a hat...sometimes without a lunchbox.
2. Has removed the word impossible from her vocabulary!
3. Can hold a baby, take care of a toddler and drive a tractor or combine all at the same time.
4. Must be able to cook for a crew - large or small.
5. Must be able to read minds.
6. Must be able to banter with a parts man until he realizes you DO know what you're talking about.
7. Must be the entertainment director for those rainy days.
8. Be a wife, mom, friend, helper, cook, problem solver, taxi driver or extra crew hand at all times.
9. Can handle the call that makes you react, "You need what? When?" Dropping everything you're doing to make it happen.
10. At the end of the day say, "I really do love this life".
