Country Fun – City Boy in the Country

Last year we moved to the country and it was exhausting. Finally, we are somewhat settled and I am adjusting to the surroundings. Not really.

I have begun to be very observant. You have seen the signs along the road, next to the fields of whatever it is that is growing out there. Well, I have a very curious mind and of course I wanted to know what those signs are. I asked one of the farmers and he told me that it is use to describe the seed type used in that field.

Well, they all know I am from LA, (I think they put it in the local newspaper), so everybody in the county knows. I bought the explanation hook, line, and sinker. What do I know? They could tell me anything and I would think it was legit.

But then I got to thinking, these farmers are pretty competitive. If they have a really good crop they don’t want the guy down the way knowing how he did it, right? And if it is a really bad crop they wouldn’t want everybody to know that they were not so smart a farmer, right? So I figured that there is more to this than meets the eye. So a bit of thought had to go into this.

So I thought and I thought and I even did a little whittling. Thought and whittle, whittle and thought. Then I saw something that made me stop in my tracks.

So what is this? Well I went back to the same farmer and asked and he said that this was a test field and they were trying different seeds to see which one is best. OK LA boy. I’m a bit skeptical. You see I fell for that first explanation and so I wasn’t going to fall for this. So I got out and I looked and I look at all of the different rows of whatever that is out there growing.

There really was no difference...I mean they all had these little pod things on them (for you non- farmer types these are beans) not pork and beans, but soy beans. Anyway, they didn’t have apples or pears on them. And I didn’t see a single pineapple. I think that they are playing a little joke on me. I needed to do a bit more study. Of course I thought it might be a little bit of pay back for a little joke I pulled on one of them.