[AT] Test: now Gambler

[HERBERT METZ]

Reference Greg's bad weather this past year; my Father (a lifetime Farmer/Rancher) occasionally commented that a farmer was the biggest gambler in the world as they gambled on the weather.  Herb(GA) 
 
> On December 30, 2019 at 12:39 AM Greg Hass <ghass at m3isp.com> wrote: 
> 
> Although I have not solved my problem, I did get Ralph's reply and his 
> weather report. Our weather here in Michigan's thumb is different.  We 
> have had the year from He$$.  Spring was late and cold and wet. We 
> started planting when we should have been done planting.  Then it quit 
> raining and we had only about an inch for the whole summer and that came 
> in about 5 small rains of only a tenth or two. Then we went from summer 
> straight to winter with over a foot of snow the first part of November 
> just as corn harvest started along with temperatures of as low  as 7 
> degrees F.  We broke all kinds of records the first half of November.  
> Harvesting losses on corn were quite high as I had to keep the header 
> above the snow.  One time I guess I wasn't high as the sieves in the 
> combine plugged with snow and I lost about 75 bushels before I caught 
> it. Also with all the snow and mud, and there were many like me, each 
> bin load in the combine had to be taken to the road and unloaded there, 
> further slowing things down. The seasons have reversed because as I 
> write this after 11 P.M. it is 40 degrees out and raining with around 2 
> inches expected. The weatherman on the TV station for our area said in 
> the next 2 days mother nature is going to throw us everything but the 
> kitchen sink; rain, snow, sleet,cold and high winds. Our normal temps 
> for this date are 30 daytime and 15 night time.
>                     Greg Hass