It is raining today

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And I have done nothing! I can not remember the last time that I just said screw it. This year has taken a toll on me with all the heat and humidity. Getting the hay done right has been a real challenge. I bought a hay tedder three years ago, never really used it much until this year and it has been a god send this year. Fox tail this year and cuckle burrs are terrible even the conventional farmers with the spray are very weedy. It will be unusual to watch the chiefs play today instead of listening to the game from a tractor seat.
 
It's not supposed to rain here until tonight and tomorrow,but I'm still not doing any more than I have to. I chopped 62 loads of corn and put them in the bunker silo alone this week. Not done yet,but I'm so tired and fatigued,I don't know if I'd work even if I hadn't taken a vow not to work on Sunday anymore.
I sharpened the knives on the chopper,greased it,flushed the cooling system on the 2-135 and ground two loads of feed today,but I sure took my own sweet time doing it and took a lot of breaks along the way. Good thing I don't consider that "work".
 
Down here at the Lake of the Ozarks the weather guessers said rain after 1PM yesterday and then today they said rain after 3PM. I had to go to town and left at 12:30 and it was raining. But only rained long enough for me to get wet getting to the car and had stopped before I even got close to town. I still have the south field to cut and bale and if all goes as planned will cut it tomorrow and probably bale it Wednesday
 
Randy, I hear ya, I just hate working on Sundays, I guess I am a religious man in my own way but I like to take Sundays to reflect back on the previous week and spend some family time. The wife and I went to town for dinner last night, It has been two years since we have done that. This year has been out of bed at 5 a.m. and back to bed at 8p.m. dog tired. It has been raining mostly through the week and you have to get caught up on the week ends. This hot damp weather has my joints so sore that it is hard to do things. Who in the world called these the golden years? He sure did not know the difference between gold and rust.
 
I'll tell you,for me it's not so much physical as mental. I just needed to slow down the rush and clear my head. I felt like I was loosing it. By the end of the day today,I was able to start thinking some thoughts other than the things that were stuck there all week.
Got me to thinking though,not saying this is a plan,but I have the OPTION of only having to plant five more crops if I wanted to. I'll be 67 in less than 6 years. About the time that year's crop would be in the ground. I could take my full Social Security then,sell the cows and the equipment and rent the ground. Like I said,not even planning it,but it's a comfort knowing I could do it that soon if I wanted to.
 
The last 7 inches of rain the past few weeks really wore me down. Baled a couple wet round bales last week right before the inch of rain, right before the 3.3 inches of rain. Had an inch yesterday.

Harvest is gonna be rough. Lot of disappointment at the coffee shops, low prices and this weather, everyone is kinda peaked.

Lots of grass grew this year. Couldn't bale a dry bale tho, rain all summer every 56 hours. Nuts.

Folks hardly got silage 2/3 done between it all, corn is dry now. Everyone has manure piles and lagoons to empty, but water ponds sitting in the fields. Going to be a long fall.

We had the weed deal last year. Tall water hemp. Aweful. Folks adjusted some, better this year. We all learned tho, the herbicides that do better on tall water hemp do worse on giant rag weed...... Ah well.

Feel for the folks just south of me to Iowa. Can't imagine double the rain I got.

Paul
 
I figured 62 and let a young one take over that way I can enjoy watching them still make the mistakes I did and still be able to help them fix it.
Also I never traveled and I can name a lot of people that retired and never had the time to enjoy it to many people I know retired into a cemetery .
 
My son wants it,but not until he burns out in the engine building business. We've traveled enough to know we like it,but to know too that we don't want to live on the road. As long as I can get away for a week every year and an occasional weekend,I'm good.
 

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