Black Walnut Is Planted

Well Dave worked all weekend and got Black Walnut planted with corn. He had to go around to plant the other side of the slough but it is finished. YES!!! The next step is to have it sprayed if it ever stops raining long enough to get that done. The ground needs to be dry enough to drive on and then no wind to carry the chemicals off and no rain to wash it off. Yes it gets a bit tricky. There are chemicals that will prevent it from drifting in a light breeze but it won't help if it's gusty or rains. And rain has been our problem this year. It rained again last night .1"-.2" according to my rain guage. I was suppose to move the tractor back to the Bethmann Farm if it didn't rain. I need to haul fuel in for the trip and if the ground is wet I will get stuck. I will wait to see what happens when Dave gets off from the PO job. We might go get it if the big storm hasn't moved in yet. Oh yeah, they are saying more rain this afternoon. At least he got one farm totally planted.

I met the Insurance agent at the Bethmann Farm on Friday. They took some pictures to turn in with the claim. Dave is planning on replanting it in soybeans if it dries up enough. He will still need to put in corn strips for the ducks. It is still to wet to work the ground there.

The rivers are going back up. I went down to Greens Bottom. There is still water sitting in the field in several places. We can't get in there yet or get it sprayed either. We will check it out again later but we can't do anything for now.

I went to the Bethmann Farm and mower the yard and levy tops. It started to rain so I went inside the house. I thought about empting some of the boxes but with the prediction of the river coming back up I opted to wait a bit longer.

See you soon.

Soggy-Soggy Spring!

Love,

Mickey