Since I’ve been home.

May
Well ever since I got home I have been starting to do work on the farm, as it is now spring here, and with spring comes spring seeding. Of course with spring seeding comes breakdowns and the odd but very tense near disaster, but lets not get ahead of myself. First I must set everything up. The day I landed in Edmonton a massive windstorm rolled though, not a whole lot of damage was done, but I will claim full credit for such an event. When I woke up the next day it started raining, and it kept raining. It rained 3 inches (7.5cm) over the next day and a half, of which I spent most of my time re-adjusting to Canadian time. On the third day at home I started working in the fields, putting in the crop, working the earth. On the fourth day I did the morning maintenance on the air seeder and tractor as well as changing a chain on the air tank. I started the tractor to move it from the fuel tanks to the grain bins so that I could fill it with fertilizer when I noticed a little smoke come off the engine beside the muffler. “Oh well” I thought “Probably a little water or stuff got on the muffler and it was burning it off, something to be expected”. Well I poked my head out of the cab to get a good look just in case. That is when I saw the flames coming out of the engine. I killed the tractor yelled fire to my dad who was working near by. I ran to the combine where I knew there was a fire extinguisher, (my mind suddenly wondered why we didn’t have one in the tractor). I came back running hard towards the tractor that was now smoking ominously like an old pipe smoker standing in a pool of gasoline. I passed dad who was carrying a container that had trapped some rainwater from the earlier downpour we had, I yanked the pin on the extinguisher jumped up onto the tire and fired. The flames went out instantly and I breathed out in relief as we had a combine burn down on us only a couple of years ago. Then I saw sparks, the flames erupted again and I fell off the tire trying to avoid inhaling in any unwanted fumes. I told dad it was an electrical fire and he attacked the batteries until he had removed the battery cables, and that was when the fire finally was extinguished. After close examination we discovered that the only damage to the tractor were 2 battery cables that had short circuited. It could have been a lot worse, as if it had gotten to the fuel line, the whole tractor would have been a write off. Near disaster. Just after we repaired the cables and got the tractor running again it snowed, yes in May. So to recap within a week of coming home I brought fire, water, wind, ice, and I worked the earth. That is pretty much all the elements, and I think I will soon be elevated to "God status" as soon as my application has been processed. Well we are now done seeding and it feels good, until I looked at my list of things I need to do this summer and wonder how the heck I am going to get them all done, especially when I start work in June. Of course one big advantage of my new job is that I will be working from home instead of up in the city, a very big advantage. It feels weird to be starting work after so long, but this was going to happen eventually. I still can't believe that it has been over a month since I got home, and in that time I haven't stopped moving, I have been like a bouncy ball, and only spent a little time with my friends considering, but I am hoping June will be a better month for free time. I was able to take off for the long weekend in May and hang around with some of them, and I had a wonderful time with them, even though it was cold and snowed, but I still had a good time. Of course I should have known mother nature would be cross about me missing Winter and would extract retribution on me by having it snow, not once but 3 times since I got home, which wouldn't be worth mentioning except it is May and the flowers are out. I will let everyone know how work back at my old blog, though it should be noted that I won't be working for the same company. Here is hoping all goes well.

P.S. I will be putting up my last blog soon, and it is by far the most important, so everyone keep your eyes pealed.

Adam