[AT] "The farmer is the biggest gambler in the world"
Mark Johnson
markjohnson100 at centurylink.net
Sun Jul 7 05:32:47 PDT 2019
All through high school, when we filled out the enrollment forms in the
fall, I listed my father's occupation as "Gambler (Professional)."
Nobody noticed until senior year, when my guidance counselor pulled up
my file while writing a college letter of recommendation. He laughed for
hours...knew *exactly* what I meant! [Fortunately for me, Mr. Stone was
a good friend, in and out of school, and had a really great sense of humor.]
Mark J
Columbia, MO
Indiana farmboy now working at a Missouri university.
On 7/6/2019 8:59 PM, HERBERT METZ wrote:
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> 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)
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>> 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. :-)
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Francis Robinson
>> aka "farmer"
>> Central Indiana USA
>> robinson46176 at gmail.com <mailto:robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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