[AT] List quiet!! Everyone OK, or just waterlogged??? - - Frustrating spring/summer so far...

[Indiana Robinson]

Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain...
Then a short spate of decent weather and now hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot,
hot, hot. Not just hot but with mega humuggity. Real 4 shirts a day hot and
humid kind of weather... Days where every time you come in you hang your
hat on the rack in front of the AC output so it will be dry for the next
time.
Getting anything done here (just south-east of Indy) has been a real
battle. The barn that is my farm shop is usually near impossible to heat
but not too awful hot in the summer. Not the case this summer. That and it
is so terribly full of stuff that I can barely move around in it. Not
usually a big problem since I tend to like working just outside of the shop
in the shade of a couple of trees. During all of that rain the trees leaked
badly.  :-)  What kind of trees you ask? Ash, of course... this will be
their last year thanks to the emerald ash borers.  :-(
I'm a little old to expect a tree I plant now to become a big shade tree
for me. I'm still planting trees of course, but now I plant them for others
that will follow. I may get one of those free-standing steel carports for
that spot at the shop door. They are not a cooling tree but they are fast
up and they don't leak as bad as a tree.  :-)

Crops (mostly corn, soybeans, wheat and hay) are generally looking decent
in our area. Wheat is at harvest here now and seems OK except where it has
been standing water. I have seen a fair amount of straw being baled.  Lots
of round bales of hay last week but sadly quite a few I've seen near here
are off of old factory lots and there was a lot of trash in those lots that
got rolled into them.
About Thursday we were down south-east of here near Cincinnati and we saw a
"lot" of fields that were fresh tilled and planted in the past few days.
They are usually a week or so ahead of us. Straight south of here we've
seen a lot of fields still standing water or at least 50% or better in
water. Here there has been a good bit of replanting being done.
Yesterday Diana came out to help me unload some light fence panels (she
worries about me in the heat) and she almost passed out. I pace myself when
conditions are bad, I learned that after my bypass. She on the other hand
always wants to work like she is killing snakes... I usually make her sit
down often in the heat but I hadn't been watching her close enough.
It's been really close and hot this  morning with the air dead still and I
have been working stop and start. 95 and humid with no breeze gets tough on
old people. I better get back out now since a decent breeze has come up and
it's clouding up a little...


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Francis Robinson
aka "farmer"
Central Indiana USA
robinson46176 at gmail.com
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