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<p>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.]<br>
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Mark J<br>
Columbia, MO<br>
Indiana farmboy now working at a Missouri university.
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sans-serif;">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)<br>
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<div>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. <br>
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<div>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. :-(</div>
<div>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. :-)</div>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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. <br>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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...</div>
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Central Indiana USA <br>
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