After work tonight Daryl and I headed out to the fields to pick some rock. Now normally I don’t really like this job at all, but because I really need the exercise and I have literally no arm strength anymore – it’s probably something that I should be doing. So I found a bandanna to keep my crazy hair out of my face while we were out in the field and I put on a short sleeved shirt and some longer shorts . Oh yea, I also found some gloves and then out we went. We were only going to pick for about an hour, but because it was going pretty good and there were rocks to pick, we decided to keep going until the wagon was full. So as we’re picking the rocks out of the field I came across this little bird egg all by it’s self. 
We were picking by a waterway with trees in it, but it was pretty far away and I just couldn’t believe that this egg flew that far. But the only other option for it to be here is if a bird was flying over and out the egg came. Now even though this is a pretty funny just thinking about a bird doing that, I’m guessing that it’s probably not what happened and the egg went airborne from the trees. Either way I was shocked that it didn’t break! Another weird thing that we noticed tonight was that the rocks all seemed to be kind of rusty. Daryl thought that their must be a lot of iron in the ground in that one area.
Like I said things were going pretty good and then we heard a noise. With being out in the field and in the open, it’s pretty noticeable when something or someone is in the area. What we heard was the Coop spreading fertilizer in our field next to us. Now normally this isn’t such a big deal and it’s really a pretty good timing. It meant that Daryl could work the field up tomorrow to plant corn. But with us in the field that the Coop was heading to next – it meant that we had to kick it in gear and try to get as much rocks picked up and we only had maybe 10 minutes to do it. Well, it was time to make fast decisions on which rocks were getting picked and which ones wasn’t. Up until now we were trying to get most of what we saw in the field and now? Well, only the very obvious ones were making it onto the wagon this time! We got out of the field just in time before the huge Coop spreader pulled into the filed and we brought the wagon home to unload it in our other field’s fence line.
There is a water run that we want to get blocked with the rocks so it was a perfect spot to put them. Our load was mostly smaller rocks and they will hold the water and dirt in place. Now to get them unloaded by throwing them off the wagon by hand and with the wagon back into our yard, it was a good job done. But I’m afraid that it’s just the beginning of picking rocks for the year.
So my picture of the day comes from what Daryl was working on before we picked up rocks. He was using the tractor and pulling out scrub trees out of the fence line. 
There isn’t too many things that bother Daryl, but these scrub trees … yea he really hates them. The picture if one that was pulled out and I’m not really sure why the roots are such a gold color – but it looks kind of cool and almost fake. 