Wrestling the wind

Nathan is wrestling the wind right now in the peanut field. There is a technique called pitching out whereby you drive a particular implement through the field and it hills up dirt on either side of your rows. Those hills help protect the baby plants from being flung to the netherlands when the wind picks up. And the wind is mostly always picked up these days.

This first picture shows how the wind has already filled in the furrows with additional sand. That's why "wrestling the wind" is a present-tense verb. Just about the time he finishes pitching out the field, Nathan gets to start all over. He'll repeat this process until the peanut plants are strong enough to fend for themselves against the wind.

Grow peanuts grow.