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It wasn't too much, but it sure could have held off for another 5-6 hours.... Oh well. I just finished planting the 2nd field this morning after having to repair the marker arm (I swear the barn jumped out at me!!!) and it started to rain. Nothing that would normally bring me in yet, just a couple drops, but the next field on the agenda was up the road and away from home if it started to pour. When it started letting up and it hadn't done much, I was just to the shed and it opened up again and a little harder. I thought I was done for the day so i went to a cook out at my fiance's house and ate, and the sun was shinign. I figured i may as well chekc the fields, and sure enough they sucked up that rain and was dry enough to plant without sticking to the tires. I got one more field done, and a small sliver about 24 rows wide that another farmer rents from another guy can't get with his big machines too easily. It had already had fertilizer broadcast and everything too... I guess we'll settle up with him in the fall for whatever he put in it for fertilizer and rental. I don't think it can be any thing more than 1 acre for that tiny peice, but every little bit helps... I've only got 2 more small peices to plant, one will have pumpkins on either end, and sweet corn on the outside by the lane. That one will be a little more of a pain to plant because we'll have to dump out the seed and do the sweet corn first so we have enough area and the rows line up with everything else. Hopefully it doesn't rain so hard it has to be worked again and I can plant more on tuesday, but they're calling for severe t-storms tomorrow night. I guess I'll have to wait it out and see for now... I'd say we've got about 75-80% of our corn in, unless I find a hay field that doesn't look so hot. Then we'll still be planting some in the middle/end of June, but that stuff always works out pretty good too. Donovan from Wisconsin
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