I’m
pretty sure that I’m redneck married right now. If the gun left at my house was
a betrothal of some sort we are definitely there.
Captain
America and I bought a tractor together. It is a brand spanking new New Holland
T105 with a passenger seat! He wanted it so he could pull a disc mower and a
big baler for his custom haying operation. I wanted it because, well, it has a
passenger seat! And air conditioning! And a sun roof! They called it a “high visibility
panel,” but it has a sun roof! Long story short, it is a tractor with a cab where
I won’t have to plaster myself pathetically to the outside of the door like a
squashed bug. Which pretty much sucks except in the spring. I mean why wouldn’t
I love clinging to the door with my fingertips as I watch my dad inside the heated,
air conditioned, and dry cab. With this beast I can actually sit in the cab and not get jabbed in
the butt by the PTO button or a lever that I have to contort myself around so
that my beloved can actually turn on the equipment. Not gonna lie, it’s pretty
sweet.
Captain
was pretty nervous about it. It is a lot of money up front, but it should be
the tractor that we can use for the rest of our lives. Tractors don’t
depreciate the way that cars do. Even though it made sense to spend the money now
rather than later he was nervous about it. That is until he used the disc
mower. I’m pretty sure I have never seen him so happy in all the months we have
been together. We messed around mowing his pasture in the five minutes of daylight
that we had left when we got back to his place. In those five-ten minutes we
mowed almost a quarter of the pasture, which had previously taken him maybe
half an hour or forty minutes to mow with his other mower. I hopped out to open
the gate and when I turned around he had his arms full of freshly mown clover
and weeds and I guess it could have been a trick of the fading light, but I
think there were tears of joy in his eyes. He was probably saying something
about “Look how great it mows!” but in my head he was spinning and dancing
through the meadow with this big armful of clover singing in joy. The clouds
parted. He ran towards the tractor, there was a dramatic moment where the
refrain of “Loving you is easy because you’re beautiful” was playing. There may
have been skipping, but I’m not sure because I was being shown clover at that
point and my head and heart were bubbly seeing him so happy.
By
the way, my head routinely makes real life into some sort of Disney cartoon. I sincerely doubt that it is a diagnosable condition, but I blame Beauty and The Beast.
So yeah, I’m redneck married. You can send all wedding gifts as checks made out directly to Davis Farm Supply. ;)
I guess all that is left to do is figure out which anniversary is the farm equipment anniversary. Captain America says year one, but I don’t believe him. I feel like he may just be angling for a new baler...
Take me for a ride in your big blue tractor. We can go slow, or go a little faster. |