[AT] Test: trying to solve my problem

[Cecil Bearden]

OKlahoma was about the same.  The winter and spring that would never 
end, then in July the hottest most humid heat I ever experienced.  I 
waited for September to get some outside work done, and then it started 
raining and when that quit, it turned cold.  I have to get the shop 
cleaned out to get something done. I have worked outside on everything 
for years, and the weather just will not cooperate.
Cecil

On 12/30/2019 7:12 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Hi Greg:
> Year from hell is about right for the weather here in Central Indiana 
> too. At least we have only had a tiny amount of snow so far. There 
> were thousands of acres unplanted here and south of here. Then it 
> stayed really hot and dry most of the summer. Pastures did poorly 
> early and in mid summer both. Hay is running quite short around here 
> and quality is poor. About "everything" was difficult this year.
> Diana and I have both been ill since the weekend after Thanksgiving 
> with what the medical folks said is bronchitis caused by a viral 
> infection. It is very prevalent around here and they say it has been 
> really hard to get rid of it. We keep thinking we are going to get 
> over it and then it comes back. I "think" that I have a handle on mine 
> now but I'm not sure about Diana yet.
> Everyday stuff like horse fence work and wood cutting and splitting 
> has been tough along with any brain work.  :-)    I got a major 
> reprieve on part of that this past week. Our youngest daughter came 
> home for Christmas from Vermont along with her daughter and 
> son-in-law. She announced that she was giving us 8 ricks of seasoned 
> and split firewood from a local vendor as a Christmas present. Also 
> last week our son dropped 2 tri-axle loads of big wood he acquired 
> from a tree trimmer that we can cut and split. Lots of stuff in it is 
> short logs about 5' to 6' or so long and about 12" to 28" in diameter. 
> Most of it is pretty straight stuff unlike a lot of tree trimmer wood. 
> Then later he dropped off a shiny new 25 ton wood splitter that he 
> said he decided that the farm just needed. It is a trailer type that 
> will pivot to vertical or horizontal as wanted. I've always split all 
> of my firewood by hand with mauls and wedges (since 1965).
> We have good kids... I understand that there had been some behind the 
> scene discussions about these things
> *****
> BTW, Happy Birthday Spencer...
>
>
> .
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> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 12:27 PM Greg Hass <ghass at m3isp.com 
> <mailto: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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