Life on the Farm

I always wondered what it would be like to be a farmer's wife... now I know :) Having a farm is extremely hard work. It often requires a lot more than a normal city 9-5 job. It is neat to see how it all works though. I have gained a greater respect for farmer's and their hard work since helping out on the farm. It certainly builds character. And muscles.

Date Night

We have had a fun and interesting night tonight. I planned to surprise Jonathan by going to see John Schmidt in concert for our date night this week. We were working on the farm today though and got held up so we didn't make it to the concert. Jonathan wanted to make it up to me by taking me to the Olive Garden for dinner. We usually get a "tour of Italy" to share - which has quite a bit of food and is a little bit more expensive but we just get one and it evens out to about $8 each. Well we ordered as we usually do and asked for two plates. When the waitress came she had two plates all right, but both plates were full of food. I think the looks on our faces were enough for the waitress to know something was up. We were so surprised and we didn't know what to say! All I could say was "uh huh" when she asked if I wanted cheese on it. We just looked at each other and back at her... we felt bad saying anything. when she walked off we just started laughing and adding up the cost of our meal. The whole time we were just laughing and saying how the cost of our meal was going to equal our food budget for the week. When she brought us our check we noticed we were only charged for one meal...so we asked her about it and she said they just separated it between the 2 plates (this was a meal that is hard to separate and it looked like there was a full amount on each plate). As we started to leave we noticed that the waitress station was right next to us...which meant she probably heard us saying all those things! It was so embarassing! It was really funny though. As we drove away we looked out the window and saw an old, white, "beer-bellied" man sitting on a bicycle in a speedo!just chillin on the side of the road... we had a good laugh about that one too. It turned out to be a fun date :)