When the Farmer is away…Kelli will play!

A post from Kelli–

Jason has been gone lately…like gone a lot.  This harvest season has been very long.  It seems like just as soon as thing are up and running, something else breaks, it’s a holiday, or there is some thing else that needs immediate attention.  Normally, Jason works from like 6 in the morning until 9 or 10 at night.  Lately, he’s been working til midnight or later more nights than he isn’t.  This makes for having any semblance of a relationship quite difficult.  Add in my schedule between my two jobs which covers days, nights, and every shift in between and it’s not uncommon to go a week or so without seeing each other awake for more than 10 minutes.  A couple days ago, Jason called to see if I wanted to ride in the combine for a bit and of course, I said yes!  After a bit, I even got to get in on moving some machinery around and this was what I got to do–Drive the combine!

While we were in the combine, we got to talking about getting a Christmas tree.  It’s a debate that we have every year.  I always want a real one….Jason thinks it’s a bad idea.  His response is usually that the real trees make a mess.  I then continually remind him that he doesn’t clean up any messes and so if he doesn’t clean up the messes, he doesn’t get a say.  We go back and forth for a bit and really never come to a conclusion.

So on Saturday I was in town for a Small Business Satuday shopping event and this tree just so happened to jump into my car!

It didn’t completely fit into the backseat and since I had to go to work before I was able to get home, I couldn’t pop it in the trunk and leave the trunk open because it would run by battery down.

I had picked up shifts all weekend at the nursing home, so I didn’t have time to get it set up, but that was first on my list for Monday morning.  Mom reminded me that I needed to cut a few inches off of the bottom of the tree to make sure it could “drink” some water.  I mentioned this to Jason and asked him to help me cut it.  As expected, he wasn’t too thrilled and on the way to a dentist appointment so he mentioned a Saws-all and I asked about a “circle saw” which he quickly informed me was a circular saw.  He was pretty much running out the door, but didn’t really have any further instructions on where either thing might be at.  I figured that I’d walk out to the shop and try to find it myself.  Boy was I wrong….

Checked the heated part of the shop–No dice!

After another walk through, I did end up finding the circular saw.

I tried plugging it in, but couldn’t find how to turn it on.  I figured I’d look it up online, but they wanted to tell me about safety type things and I wasn’t really interested in that…although I sure should have been!  I just called Buck for a quick little lesson, however his lesson was that I needed to put it away immediately.  Apparently he had a bad experience once and refused to tell me how to turn it on, so that option was out.  I called Jason quick who was on his home by this time and he said he would bring me home a hand saw.

By the time I got home from running Ruby to the vet, Jason had dropped the saw off and I set to work.  Needless to say, I would make a horrible pioneer!  Between not being able to shower every day and having to saw down trees, I would probably be dead after a week!

After much whining, complaining, and sawing attempts though, I got it figured out!

So for now, it’s up!  No decorated as I needed to grab a few things at Walmart to get my ornaments up.  I’m hoping to work on getting it decorated this afternoon or night.  I’m going with a gold, red, and burlap theme…mostly cause those are the decorations I already have and I’m trying to watch my spending a bit more.

As for Jason’s thoughts, I had it up for three days and he didn’t even notice.  Last night when I finally pointed it out to him, he just informed me that it wasn’t quite straight…But he did drive my point home–Having a real tree doesn’t really impact him much at all!  I’ll call that a win!