outside looking for more corn cobs | Farming is a way of life, not just a job.
It's getting up before the sun to beat the rain, it's sitting on the tractor in the barn because you're too tired to get off, it's sitting there enjoying the barn creaking and crickets chirping now that the engine is off.
It's neighbors stopping in the road to chat in their trucks, it's knowing who's trucks those are by the dents, scratches, or lack thereof.
It's family understanding that important events must be planned around planting and harvest, and being understanding when you forget their name at the event because you got in a 5am from planting.
It's having your farm referred to as 'the old Martin place' even though you've owned it for over 10 years, it's using the same description to tell people where you're at when asking the coop to spray, it's them knowing exactly where you mean.
It's an old retired farmer driving 25mph no matter what road or state highway he's on, it's having the same retired farmer stop and lend a hand with the tractor broke down in the field, it's finding out that he farmed the same field and had to repair his own tractor in that same spot 35 years ago.
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Finish this statement "Farming is......"
