Wheat Harvest
Claude Enos worked on the wheat farm
where they used six or eight horses hitched side by side with single trees,
double trees, and whatever else was needed to pull the implements. When Claude
Alvin went to work on the farm in 1955 in Gruver Texas, he was put on a
two-tractor hook-up. I remember the first evening when the full moon came from
the horizon and I did not know how to stop the rig. Well, Claude Enos had a
young, green, broke horse in the bunch. When he began to hitch him in his place,
the horse went crazy. The nearest teammates began to jump and shy away as horses
will do. By the time Cevus calmed the team, some of the harness was damaged to a
fare thee well. By the time Claude Enos found the straps, leads, and rivets to
make repairs, it was at least dinnertime. Claude Alvin had some shenanigans on
the farm too. One time I was driving a combine when my straw hat blew off and
went through the combine. Well, during wheat harvest, the women cook up the
biggest meals you ever saw. So when I passed by the window unit to get to my
place at the table, that wheat chaff and straw dust blew all across the table of
beautiful food. It was a bench against the wall and I was pinned in with nowhere
to go. Daddy always told us about the time he would milk twenty cows every
morning and again at night, with a full days work in between, for one dollar a
day.