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 Then he looked around. No cars were coming down the county road.
No one at the house could see him. So he smiled, sat on a rock and
leaned back against the ditchbank.
A farmer’s recliner, he thought, wiggling slightly to avoid kidney
puncture by a twig. He was smiling that dignified farmer’s smile on
the outside but laughing on the inside. So nice to just rest here
for a minute in the sun. Oh, he wouldn’t have done it if he’d left
the engine running. Waste of gas. But the engine was off, all the
seeds were in for this year, and all he was doing was plowing summer
fallow now. No rush. Do it any time.
So Harley locked his hands behind his head, lay back against the
ditch grass, and just looked around.
Marshmallow clouds today against a dark blue sky. Crows flying in to
Harley’s fields from Roger’s. He paused a moment from pure
observation to lean a bit on philosophy. He considered that fences
and land deeds and farming contracts meant nothing to these birds.
There is more than a bit of envy there, but just for a minute.
Harley stood, stretched his back and drank from the canteen on the
tractor.
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Crows didn’t worry about deeds, he thought, but hey, they didn’t get
to watch football in the fall, either.
All in all, on a nice summer’s day like this, there’s nothing wrong
with being a farmer.
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Slim Randles]
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