Farmwork in the summertime can be really hard sometimes.
Don’t get me wrong.
I really love to do farmwork. I just don’t like the fact that there is absolutely no access to any air conditioning at any time whenever I am at work. That can be really rough sometimes, that’s for sure. Around here, the temperatures can get really hot during the summer and the weather starts heating up more and more throughout the day. It’s rough to know that I have to go to work in the high temperatures every day and not be able to go and take breaks in the air conditioning whenever I feel like it. Once in a while I’m able to go and sit out in my truck in the parking lot out front, but it doesn’t really happen all that often, that’s for sure. I would rather be inside in the air conditioning more often throughout the day, but that’s just not how it is. The only place that there is air conditioning out on the farm is in the front of the barn where the little office room is. Even up there, there is only a little window unit air conditioning system installed in the front office. We are not allowed to go in there and hang out for very long, though. I know that we are going to have a long season this year, and I have actually been thinking about getting one of those little portable personal cooling devices to wear around my neck for when I’m working out in the fields on those long, hot summer days.