[AT] "The farmer is the biggest gambler in the world"

[HERBERT METZ]

I grew up on a farm in central KS; I can remember my Dad saying several times "A farmer is the biggest gambler in the world; he gambles on the weather".  Herb(GA)


> On July 6, 2019 at 12:59 PM Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     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.  :-)
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>     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 mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com
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