Yesterday my dad was on KRCG news talking about cool weather and the corn harvest. It cracks me up to see him go into his “teacher” mode on TV, especially at the end of the clip, when he’s almost laughing as he answers a question that Mark Slavit surely expected to elicit a depressing response.
http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/video.aspx?id=330252
In fact, when we were children, my sisters and I thought our dad was very crotchety. (Sorry, Dad.) But adult to adult, when you pin him down to find out just how bad the weather, the machinery problems, the overall health of the crop in any given year are hitting him, he steadfastly refuses to give you anything but a hopeful answer. It is only in adulthood that I have discovered that my dad, the farmer, is a closet optimist. And oh, how I love him for it.
Kathleen M. Basi 