Another 100+ degree day today, for some reason it didn’t feel as bad as before but I think it’s that we’re getting used to it. Lookin like the rains will miss us again but what the heck, don’t want to get rain and act all smart now, eh. The creek looks like [...]
The weekend is winding down although around here it never got to wound up with the heat and all. Boy, it’s really a rough bugger out there with 100+ degrees for most of the day. Around here that means just making sure the animals are well watered and all. Water’s the cheapest [...]
Another hot one today and the dust is becoming a way of life. More and more corn is frying up, but at the same time it’s amazing how well some fields are holding up under the incredible strain. Sometimes it gets depressing looking around at the different fields and pastures, over winter and [...]
Today we started and finished baling this years oats straw, now all that’s left with that is to haul it all home sometime. As always the rains are missing us and it just keeps getting dryer and dryer. Can’t do much about the pastures and fields but we’re trying to fight back out [...]
Sometimes small rural towns look like the aftermath of a war. By that I mean abandoned buildings and businesses, buildings falling down or about to, a sense that it’s over. And you know, there is a war being waged, a big one and rural America is taking a hit, a big hit. Any [...]
We just finished up combining this year’s oats and it wasn’t as bad as I had figured it would be. Must have done at least sixty bushels to an acre and it feels pretty heavy. Pays to plant that stuff the moment a person can get into the field in spring. Next week [...]
Grain harvest was moving along today with the start of combining here. Just got in and its almost dark out. After this job the rest of the summer should have very little harvest work unless there’s a drastic change here as far as rain is concerned. The hay fields are at [...]
We’re starting oats harvest around here now and today I finished swathing the oats. Tomorrow we’ll probably get the combine out and start getting that ready. That takes a day or two to go over everything, but it’s better taking care of it in the yard than fixing in the field, that’s for [...]
The big weekend is finally over and it was great! I hope to beg, borrow or steal some photos from PJ who took hundreds of pictures this weekend at the big doings. It was about the hottest day of the year around here Saturday with temps at 102 degrees. And the amazing thing [...]
Yesterday evening we received 7/10s of an inch of rain, a very welcome rain to say the least. Not enough to get the pastures going but enough to pick up the corn again and it sure did pick up today, yee haw!! Now them big shot weather thinkers were yammering yesterday morning that [...]