[AT] Test: now Gambler

[Mark Johnson]

For 4 years of high school, when I filled in the annual enrollment forms 
in the fall, I listed my father's occupation as "Gambler (Professional)"

Nobody noticed until the guidance counselor pulled my file to write a 
recommendation for my admission to Purdue. He said he nearly fell out of 
his chair laughing...and he must have written a good rec; I got in!

[Guidance counselor was a small time farmer himself and knew exactly 
what I meant!]

Mark J
Purdue Ag, 1978



On 12/30/2019 7:27 AM, HERBERT METZ wrote:
> 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
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