John Deere
Today I am grateful for safe travels, a good run in my hometown yesterday morning, and an enjoyable family day on Friday.
We traveled to Waterloo, Iowa to take our son Sam on tours of two different John Deere plants there. Both facilities are expansive. One was over a million square feet, the other was over 2 million. We got to ride on a modified golf car at one and a cart pulled by a John Deere tractor at the other. Safety glasses were required, and we got headsets to hear the tour guide amidst the noise of a working plant with lots of heavy equipment.
Sam is interested in all things farming and is considering something agriculture-related as a career. My husband Darcy got the idea for these tours and looked into it weeks ago. You have to be at least 13 to go on the tours, so it became a fitting birthday present for Sam.
It was nice to have the family time together too, and to take a break from school and work for a new experience for all of us. I am grateful that we did it and the boys agree. It also meant we got to watch my nephew Brennan play basketball that evening. That's a rare opportunity and we are glad it worked out to see him and his family.
We appreciated the videos, the knowledge of the tour guides, all that we got to see, and of course the gift shops at each facility. Even though some of the information was over our heads, it was very interesting to first tour the Engine Works plant and then the Tractor Cab Assembly Operations plant.
The mechanization and robotics were fascinating to me. More on that tomorrow.
"Nothing runs like a Deere" and nothing works quite as well as gratefulness to help build a positive perception of self and surrounding world.
We traveled to Waterloo, Iowa to take our son Sam on tours of two different John Deere plants there. Both facilities are expansive. One was over a million square feet, the other was over 2 million. We got to ride on a modified golf car at one and a cart pulled by a John Deere tractor at the other. Safety glasses were required, and we got headsets to hear the tour guide amidst the noise of a working plant with lots of heavy equipment.
Sam is interested in all things farming and is considering something agriculture-related as a career. My husband Darcy got the idea for these tours and looked into it weeks ago. You have to be at least 13 to go on the tours, so it became a fitting birthday present for Sam.
It was nice to have the family time together too, and to take a break from school and work for a new experience for all of us. I am grateful that we did it and the boys agree. It also meant we got to watch my nephew Brennan play basketball that evening. That's a rare opportunity and we are glad it worked out to see him and his family.
We appreciated the videos, the knowledge of the tour guides, all that we got to see, and of course the gift shops at each facility. Even though some of the information was over our heads, it was very interesting to first tour the Engine Works plant and then the Tractor Cab Assembly Operations plant.
The mechanization and robotics were fascinating to me. More on that tomorrow.
"Nothing runs like a Deere" and nothing works quite as well as gratefulness to help build a positive perception of self and surrounding world.
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