I have always been interested in American social history and the photos of the mid west pirarie. Last week the field behind our house has been harvested for a pea crop. Ok they did start at 1am one night with loads of big machines and lights but mostly it was a slow sedate process as they had to wait for processing to catch up with the harvest of each strip (30 feet wide by about a mile long). Two days later the harrowing started.
It's not rained much since March. It's been plus 26c for a week. We have fine silt soil. Up and down he went dragging the harrow in a brown mist. Two full days later everything in and out of the house has a fine brown layer. The table has to wiped down before use, no dishes can be left out, my book needed to be wiped before I could turn the page. I could not photo it to do it justice. I am hoping if it rains that it rains very hard to wash it away as any drop of water outside just leaves a muddy stain.
Even my blackberries growing at that end of the field are now brown berries!
My sympathy is with dust bowl women!
tractors have gone today. But wait? That's a nice strong agricultural smell instead.
I know exactly what you mean. I leave the mowing of my lawn for over 2 weeks because the dust it chucks up is intolerable. I only water my plants not the lawn so it looks awful. Like you no rain for many weeks and then not enough to write home about.i got up at 5 this morning expecting (Thurs) to see everything wet from the forecast storms.....not a drop. Back up in the 30s again now.
ReplyDeleteI can sometimes see the dust blowing down the valley. We got rain last night, not much, but at least it settled the dust.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
My mother often spoke of the first rain after a long time of dryness. Having been orphaned, her older brother took care of her and her 3 sisters. She recalled him just standing out in the rain with tears and rain mingling as they poured down his face. It was a HARD time!
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