Harvest

[Snowden]

After my father-in-law moved out of the city to the country, a local farmer took him under his wing and taught him the basics of his new rural life.
One day, as the winter wheat ripened, Dad went out to the field to check on his first crop.
He took a pair of scissors with him so he could remove the wheat from the stalk to examine it more closely.
A neighbour arrived just then and, seeing the scissors, quipped, "Harvesting already, I see.