Long Skirts and Short Shorts
From the age of 12, and until I graduated high school, I worked all my summers in wheat/oat/ barley fields for farmers in Northern Oklahoma and Southern Kansas. I began scooping grain in bins on the farm, which would be used for planting the next year’s crop. Wheat and barley was bad enough, but scooping oats was an itchy bitch. The husks were sharp and would break in your skin, causing constant irritation. Oat dust was worse on breathing, too. The second year, I graduated to driving an old dump truck, loaded with grain, to the elevator. I could barely touch the pedals, but once I got the hang of it, they turned me loose. Over those years, I believe that driving that old International was the highlight of all my farming years… except the …