The Old Farmer And His Wife

The old farmer looked out of his kitchen window he had been getting ready for this day all season long he plowed, he planted, he water and fertilized, and now he and his trusty old harvester was getting into the fields and starting out. His wife walked in the kitchen and saw him with a cup of coffee fully clothed and ready to go to work and he would too before he would get his breakfast, "Don't you dare old man your not going out in that field without a breakfast in your stomach today, it's going to be eggs, and hash browns, and biscuits with gravy, so sit down and drink your coffee this won't take long." The old farmer knew he wouldn't get out of the kitchen without eating that large breakfast his just explained but he had to try, "Listen I want to be done with the first hundred acres by noon so I don't have time to eat a big breakfast, I'm going to drink this cup down and get out there." The old woman had heard enough and she gave him the same look she had been giving him for the last forty six years, she stuck her nose in the air turned her head to the side and looked out of the corner of the eyes, "You look here old man we go through this every year now sit down and get ready to eat." The old farmer knew she wasn't going to stop until she was able to get to the stove and do her work so he just took a deep breath and sat down at the table. The old house wife got her apron on and started to work on the breakfast going as fast as she could knowing the old man was looking forward to the fields and sooner than she thought the breakfast was done but it seemed like a long time to him. "Well it took long enough are you satisfied the sun came up before you got done with that." The old woman knew he was just trying to get her to argue with him but she wasn't going to fall for it because if she did they would argue and he would walk out without eating a thing and she wasn't going to let that happen so she calmed her temper down and looked him right in the eyes. "Yes dear that was a long time but sooner you eat the sooner you can get in that field." The old farmer gruffed and ate his breakfast as soon as he was finished he got up and kissed his wife. "Thank you old woman for the breakfast going out now." The old woman slapped his arm kissed his cheek in return and she heard him walk out the back door, "Have a good day dear." The farmer got out to his harvester checked the oil and filled up the gas tank and fired it up, he got out in the fields and began working on the back front forty. The old woman got in her car and drove down to the highway on her way to town she pulled over and saw him inside the harvester a tear came to her eye as she watched him for a while, this was how she saw him for the first time over fifty years ago, she said out loud knowing no one else could hear her. "You're in your element now old man, I love my farmer." She got back in her car and drove on to town did her shopping like she had done for all the years she had been married to the farmer.