A farmer works in acres not hours.
With a day of vacation and the July 4th holiday we got a lot done. Bush hogged the area between the ditch and the peanuts. The new muffler installed by Gordon McClinton was nice change from no muffler. Hopefully killed a lot of Chinese Tallow and Yupon with the herbicide Clear Pasture in the area […]
Continue ReadingThis was an abnormal Thanksgiving as Mary and I spent Thanksgiving day in Houston with Kelley, Rocky and Rocky Sr. Jeff joined us later in the day. A nice day but not the same as this day has been for the past 38+ years: i.e. I have always been in Mobile But, this year we […]
Continue Reading“We have 3 inches in rain gauge for the last 7 days!!!!! It has rained for 2 days–slow easy rain. Nice! I see trees dying everywhere [from Tom spraying Remedy last trip]. Noticed those in midfield in low area dying. Grass is growing.” It has been over four months since the farm had such a […]
Continue ReadingWhen we were here last month the figs were just forming and the blueberries were light green hard balls. By the time we left on July 4th we had about 15 or so figs, after eating some, and a quart of blue berries.
Continue ReadingPeggy sent photos and reported that lighting struck and fence posts are on fire along the west fence line and the field is on fire. The VFD showed up as someone must have called them that saw the fire before Peg and Frank saw it.
Continue ReadingThe area is very drying and grass is dying along the roads in many places. Everyone is praying for rain except for the construction contractors. Today we had several showers and a lot of thunder all around
Continue ReadingAfter being planted what seems like a long time ago and only had one shower we finally were blessed with 3/4″ of rain last night. The peanuts seem happier but that little rain will not last long when the earth is so dry.
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