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Rain

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The weekend Farm Report comes to us from Ben.

We’ve had about 2 inches of rain between Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a nice easy rain and much needed. The first of the corn that I planted is up, Oats is filling in nicely, other than one field that looks terrible. I’m not sure what’s going on there. Other than it was corn last year and the other fields were soybeans last year. So, they worked up different, or I don’t know what. But I think I’m gonna replant part of this one. It’s just a terrible looking stand and it’s right along the road so it embarres me to think the neighbors will judge me.

 The rows that end up in the track of the tractor tire never come up quite as fast as the other rows. I think because the soil gets packed down by the tire, and I’ve always thought I need some kind of tiny digger teeth behind the tractor to refresh that dirt. Mounting something is the easy part, trying to figure out how to make it raise and lower is harder, But I really need to figure out something.

I did finish planting corn last Saturday. Had a couple minor repairs I was able to fix in the field. One loose bolt, and one broken chain link. Good thing I had a spare chain link. There was a pheasant pair running around in this field.

I spent Monday riding in a big truck, being the navigator as a company applied calcium chloride as dust control on our Township gravel roads. It’s a thing we do annually. We finished that about 3:00 PM and I went to Plainview John Deere and picked up a new rear wiper arm for a tractor. Would you believe 120 bucks for that! And then to Meyer seed’s and picked up soybean seed.

Tuesday and Wednesday were meetings at the college.

Thursday was the visitation for mom, and Friday was her memorial service.

Saturday I have a set up meeting at one theater, an event at the college, and the ‘cousins Reunion’ at my sisters house. The kids are the cousins, Kelly and I are the fun, cool Aunt and Uncle. Even a couple Grand Neices we’re excited to see again – or for the first time.

It’s been fun to have all the nieces and nephews in town. They’re all pretty cool people.

Back in April I ordered a ton of egg layer ration from the co-op. Forty, fifty-pound bags on a pallet. They put it in the truck with a fork lift, I use the loader and forks to take it out of the truck and put it in the feed room. Works great.

Got the first bag out the other day, and it’s meal, rather than pellets.  Hmm, not sure about that. Turns out the chickens are not fans… I didn’t know I needed to specify pellets; it’s just always been pellets.

I called the co-op to see about exchanging this. Due to bio-security, they don’t usually return feeds. Plus they’re going to stop making pellets. Hmm. But she was going to check into this. Haven’t heard back yet. Plan B will be to buy bags of pellets from Fleet Farm and mix into it I guess. A ton of layer rations last me 11 months. This could take a while…

GOT LONG TERM PLANS?

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  4. I’m thinking of what I want to get done this summer, while on break from most of the UU tasks. That’s about as long term as I can get.

    Hope to do more meetings at “half-way towns” (half-way from Mpls.) with family and friends. And house cleaning projects, like the windows. Thinking…

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  8. Good afternoon, Baboons,

    I can tell we are now an older crew–long term seems unwise. My “long term” plans are the summer, at this time, and everything is about finishing the medical interventions I started during the spring. I have to continue my hip recovery, which at least is going fairly rapidly. Yesterday was a big day. I was able to negotiate the stairs which allows me to do the laundry. WooHoo! Next I must work with my ophthalmologist to get a pair of glasses that work better than the readers I have now. This is really inconvenient and my sight close up is needing some tweaking. All that should take me into mid-summer. A friend will be coming over tomorrow or Monday with plants to help me plant some planters. Today I was able to get to my cold frame where I discovered thriving plants that need transplanting. That should take me to the Autumn.

    For now that is about it. If my rehab goes really well, then my longest term plan is to start actively taking part in protest marches.

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  10. I see the corn is up in the field next to me. But the fields around me here in the middle of Mankato are now being taken over by construction crews.

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  11. I’ve mapped out which days I will be going to the State Fair. I’m about half way through my Solstice cards and other holiday projects. Longer term… I have designed (in my head) next year’s card and have purchased the main component for making it. And I continue with my “get rid of stuff” project in the hopes that if I get to a downsizing point, the packing and moving will be more manageable and won’t do me in.

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  12. One of the summer projects is updating our will, and getting that kind of details in order. As always, I want to do some clearing out in the basement. Our friend Walken’s memorial will be June 14, so that is the first project.

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    1. That’s a fertilizer applicator in the header photo. Uses air pressure to apply granular fertilizer.

      It’s been a busy few days, but yeah, it was a nice service, it was nice to visit with friends and relatives, we only had a little left over food, and by the end of the second day, the chickens got some goodies.
      My sister read something at the service, I read the post I had here a few weeks ago about mom’s moves, and my niece read something she had written. Pastor Anjanette knew mom and dad so her sermon was appropriately moving.

      The cousins had a great visit, and it was nice to have all of them together.
      A long, but really good few days.

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  14. A few years ago when Sandra’s mind was still clear, we set up and paid for our funeral plans, simple ones. For one thing the money is then protected. Right after that I checked with an attorney to be sure I was right about this: since all our limited assets are liquid, we own no real estate, we own nothing of value, this means it is best not for us to have a will. My daughter has no sentiment about things. My son does and already has most of the things he wants. I am about to package up and mail him my carved chess set and the one pastel he wants.

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    1. My daughter’s f-i-l died recently and the problem is how to get rid of all the stuff. It will take days to clear out the house to prep it for sale. People are already knocking at the door and calling. Several things have good value and will have to be marketed. None of the kids live within an hour. It makes me clear out even more of the stuff I have.

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