Hot out today, no rain in site says the thinkers, although I see on radar there’s some action in the Dakotas. Come on you clouds, head east! I hate to write about our severe lack of rain, but it dominates a persons thinking. Watching the crops and pastures fry up wears on [...]
Well, at least we’re not being flooded out, so there’s always a bright side to life, eh. The last couple of days have been a welcome cool down around here with temps in the seventies. But the thinkers are saying nineties coming up and no chance of rain for at least a week [...]
Cuttin meadow hay today and all went well for once, didn’t plug up the haybine even once which is a first down there in that wiregrass. That wiregrass is some tough stuff and makes the tractor grunt a bit when you hit a stretch of that stuff. But for some reason the cows [...]
A beautiful day here in the North Country and that’s another Fourth of July under the belt. Although it was about the same as any other day here, fixed fence and a bunch of other odd jobs. In the seventies with a gentle NW breeze, perfection! I just wished it would rain [...]
Tomorrow is camera day out in the corn fields. The OP corn is doing great even in this dry spell, in fact it looks a bit better than the neighbor’s hybrid corns as far as drought stress. Most of it is about chest high and starting to shade out the rows so [...]
As the week is winding down around here things are still holding together pretty good, even with the dry conditions. We had a sprinkle last night, I have no idea when, I was sleeping like a log. But everything is back to dust again by this evening. Over the last year I’ve tried [...]