This week Aunt Jeanette writes:

Some time ago Melissa wrote a story about pivot stops. We have quite a few of these structures and they are wonderful for keeping pivots out of trees, ditches, roads, or the neighbor’s fields. We also found out they are good places for a bird to set up housekeeping – or should I say ‘nestkeeping’!

During irrigating season, farmers have to find little things to keep them happy. Although we are fortunate to be able to irrigate our crops, being out in a cornfield when the temperature is 98 degrees, the heat index is 105 degrees, the humidity is 90 percent, and there is not a breath of air, just isn’t their idea of a good time.

My husband, Dan, saw this robin’s nest on one of his pivot stops. He didn’t think the nest would survive, but he was able to watch the whole progression of a family of robins from three eggs to three baby robins. The robins have left the nest now, but the empty nest still sits on the pivot stop.

I think it gave him a little something to look forward to when he was irrigating on those miserably hot days.

And I know he smiled every time he saw it. He is just like that.

Until we walk again …