Where Nathan works (and two other posts from today...scroll down...)

For those of you who are interested in seeing what Nathan has been up to this month, I bring you "an hour in the life of Nathan." (captions below the pictures)

This is Nathan not looking at the road because he's either looking at his GPS or the paper on his lap...but it's ok if he goes off the road because he's in a truck.

This is the lady riding shotgun in Nathan's life these days...isn't she a 'beaut? (the big pole thing is a hydrolic sample-taker and the laptop is his GPS to tell him he's on the right field)

Nathan prefers to take the soil samples by hand, like a "real man." (it's faster)

As you can imagine, he feels like a "real man" when he hits a rock just below the surface while putting all his weight onto the sample-taker.

Once he's got his 18 inches of "sample" dirt, he puts the top 6 inches (topsoil) into the very technical Folgers coffee can. The bottom 12 inches (subsoil) goes into the white bucket. Once a field is done, he bags the two buckets separately, marks them, and throws them in a box. Each field requires 14 samples from different points in the field.

And this is what the end of Nathan's shift usually looks like...(and the beginning, for that matter) Alicia, feel free to take this picture for your photo wall...it's a genuine MB sunset taken from a genuine MB field.