To My Anonymous Friend

When things tickle, so you write them down, intending to turn them into a post…. And then you somehow just don’t…. Because it doesn’t MEAN anything, you know….

Yeah, my posts are just full of stuff like that😆

Like this, see?

This…. Is a sample of the Emi-est type of thing I write, this is the for fun, because-words-tickle kind of thing….

A bit aged, but still (: 

From this spring. 

It’s a beautiful spring day here, amid seeding season…. The Saskatoons have begun blooming, and the road to camp (the farmland is mostly scattered farther from home) is bordered by blossom-laced bushes, wild and cultivated both…. Scattered with delightful irregularity, and just about every roadside edged with them…. Ahhh, spring, how lovely it is🤗🤗 The wild strawberries are blooming in their little nook tucked up against the house, and all the world around us is falling into the easy rhythms of early summer.

Now, I started this on the road over here…. 

(“Here” being Camp, and “Camp” being Operations Central for the land we farm.) Having left home with the full intent to deliver lunches to the hardworking folks who have been at it since breakfast…. A couple of my sisters and I were at home taking care of Meal Making and Laundry Doing, stuck at home for awhile due to Much Mud. This is something that happens in the country on occasion. Anyways, so we just came out here this morning.

And we had arrived at our destination, and were now heading straight for the nearest hungry people by the route that looked to be Quite Possibly The Way To Go.

Only, it turned, the right way did, and we, blithely sailing on our errand of mercy, did not notice this, and kept right in going. Straight out.

And so it was that we neglected to realize that the field we were driving on to get to them was mossy😬 Quite mossy. Mossy in an extreme-ish sort of way. 

This was an oversight that landed us deep in the aforementioned…. Which lovely stuff is of the variety out of which one cannot drive, but must be otherwise extracted…. 

So here I am, catching up on scribbling, and waiting to be rescued😂  (Note that at the time I post this, it will decidedly NOT be Yesterday anymore. Also you will prooobably have noticed me being oddly random capitalizing—This is for emphasis, and because it rather pleased me to write it that way😜)

The twin clouds of dust off in the distance bear testimony that the fields are being entrusted with the seed grain that will, come autumn, be (hopefully) tall and wavingly golden…. (And some of it, tall and clambering and tendriley,  because we’re sowing oats AND peas. No beans, though.) 

And as yet looks nothing like it! Speeding along each at their task, the first several laps ahead of the other busily getting the field ready for the second, and the one behind keeping up, steadily sowing the grain and a wee snack for each seed that is tucked in the soil. This is what you call Innoculant. 

They’re big beasties, these tractors, yet off in the distance, they don’t look much bigger than the toy box-sized version…. And as the little boys who occasionally ride along on the Big Ones will tell you, this kind of MUCH more intriguing!

Lo, the sidebyside cometh!  Hopefully laden with wisdom in the ways of Unstucking Trucks.

The driver thereof declares the truck to be throughly un-drive-outable with apparently great amusement, if the wideness of her grin and the laugh that cannot but up and out are any indication. The middle-sized sis seated up front, by method of further elaboration, states that we are Sunk. This does not come unaccompanied by a laugh, albeit a slightly despairing one. (The fact that it is despairing does not make it tickle less)

Aha!! Rescue cometh! It comes, as it turns out, in the form of one large red tractor, disc still hitched up, and one Resourceful Person behind the wheel. One tow rope, two drivers, and some encouragement by way of the tractor, and we’re outta that place like we were never up to the hubcaps in soil.

Very glad to be out. Determined to stay out, and not about to forget the Lesson Of The Moss anytime soon!