Northern Farmer

Kind of a different day around here this Monday, misted and drizzled a little bit here and there. Only received 15/100ths of an inch of rain on parched ground, or should I say parched and well done land. It’s getting drier and drier every moment, but today at least the land smelled different cause the dust got cut back a little bit. In fact it smelled pretty good! That fresh smell we very seldom ever experience anymore. In fact I have to try and remember what year it was when we had moister last during the growing season. But such is life out here, eh!

Couldn’t cut hay today because of the drizzle and then decided to haul bales from fields about a mile and a half south of here. But again the drizzle stopped me. It mixed with the dirt on the windows of the tractor cab and I couldn’t even see out of them. I suppose I could of washed them but it can get hard on the eyes trying to look through that glass when it’s drizzling. And the way folks drive around here nowadays it sure isn’t safe to go on the roads half blind. But plans are to cut hay tomorrow and maybe for a good chunk of the day on the 4th and after that have a Fourth of July farm barbeque here! I can taste it all now! Good food, friends and good times! Yup, it doesn’t get much better than that! We don’t have any sweet corn yet, in fact its a few weeks away, but I can’t take it any longer and the wife will have to pick some up in town tomorrow. That should satisfy that “need”! What can I say, when you don’t got, “get”! I figure food is never a waste of money, besides, gotta keep some farmer a few hundred miles south in a living way too!

This past Saturday the buzz saw got it’s first true work out! Knocked off ten or eleven cord with that old JD 50 barking, saw zinging, (loud), and saw dust flying. A great success! The new modified and safer version worked wonderful. Kinda like a huge table saw and a person really doesn’t have to get all that close to the 32″ blade as it rapidly cuts the eight foot cord wood down to size! It’s just great to see inventions work out, plus no arms or limbs from people were lost, not even close!

So other then never ending dry things are going pretty darn good. One more week of broilers around here, one more week of bulls hanging around the farm yard, (I can’t wait till them chow hounds are on pasture). It always seems when a person is a bit short on critter food they eat twice as much as normal! That’s a farming rule you won’t find in big ag rags, but it’s a fact never the less. Just another bit of wisdom for free and that’s about all its worth too.

Other than dirt farming, dry dirt farming, church is keeping us all busy with daughter Rachel heading for Oklahoma City this Sunday evening. I wish I could a got around a little bit at that age but it just wasn’t so. She’s going with a couple of girls from church on a church sponsored thing down there at some college, Christian college, and will be having a week of activities down there with them. Maybe its greener there, I don’t know, but she can give me an Oklahoma cattle report when she gets back. Us cattle guys are always interested in cattle doings every where. Bet there’s a lot more Brahma blood down that way, in fact here there’s basically none, they’d freeze out. Gotta have the thick skinned, fat carrying cows here to survive the long winters.

Well, that’s about it for this evening, got a million things to do tonight yet so I’d better go and get at it.

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