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Yeah, weather's a little backwards this summer, ain't it? Dude, untimely more than anything. Oh well. How's it over there?! (it is almost Sept, feathers....) Rainy! They just started cutting that big field accross from the hospital yesterday and bam, rain shut 'em down.. Other section just up tye street still has some green in it, but they planted that late.
I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
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The smoke is probably from Washington or Oregon. Last week the loggers got a call for their clipper to Ellensburg, so while they were doing the paper, I cleaned it up. Fastest ever for me, only about four hours, but the current operator tries to keep it clean.
Passed inspection lickety split and off to E burg they went for a week, sat on the lowboy the whole time as the weather gods dithered. Got rained on on the way home.
The timing is sure off this year, tho. Glad to see the wet, but not now as everything is ripe and as grown as it will get. Get it in the barn, I don't care what happens after that.
Up hills slow,
Down hills fast
Tonnage first and
Safety last.
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Ben, great pics, lookin' good over there!
Everything looks healthy, the forest is thicker than hell.
We had a bunch of Russian olive die for an unknown reason. Really odd, those 'trees' hardly ever die.
Dude, I just looked and the green blob is headed this way.
It won't amount to much, just enough to screw things up....
That was a pretty good farmer whine.....grin
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The timing is sure off this year, tho. Glad to see the wet, but not now as everything is ripe and as grown as it will get. Get it in the barn, I don't care what happens after that.
Amen....
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The timing is sure off this year, tho. Glad to see the wet, but not now as everything is ripe and as grown as it will get. Get it in the barn, I don't care what happens after that.
Amen.... Ditto. Just had the neighbor swath a small field for me that I always put up in idiot cubes. Of course, now that it's down, it rained lightly over night and have more coming through the next few days. It will still feed, but I won't be able to sell any of it to the local horse people.
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My tomatoes are kicking ass.
Travis
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Hope it rains
I know what it is like to be that dry...
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It is not good
Snake
That which does not kill us makes us stronger
Friedrich Nietzsche
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My tomatoes are kicking ass.
Travis No one likes a braggart.
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From this evening. Dumped jungle style for an hour. (more rain than we got all Summer) ![[Linked Image]](http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e78/montanasam/Summer2014008-2.jpg)
Last edited by SamOlson; 08/21/14.
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My tomatoes are kicking ass.
Travis BLT's!
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Lawn is lookin' pretty green!
I replace valve cover gaskets every 50K, if they don't need them sooner...
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Just got 3/4"-1" in the last half hour here.
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From this evening. Dumped jungle style for an hour. (more rain than we got all Summer) UBER shot glass....fuc} ounces, drink in inches......
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I know it's a life of hard work.
but damn I miss farming
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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was just asking someone about those rain gauges the other day Sammo, they didn't have a clue what I was talking about
we used to monitor those things on the farm like our lives depended upon them.
and of course they did
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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I don't have a clue(or a rain gauge)either. I just look at how much water is in the feed tubs in the horse pen....
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I check mine all the time. Especially because most years we're an inch or two away from being too wet.
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Best August weather here since I moved up in 2010. Damn, we're having summer! If'n my outboard hadn't gone bust... You bastids can climb on a horse and go anywhere. Our moose ain't broke to saddle... But freeze-up is coming! Perspective is all. 
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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sorry Sam, musta followed me to Montana from Washington and South Australia
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
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Rancho, the 'lawn' aka weed patch is a little green but not for long. Douched it in Banvel and Roundup last Sunday. Hopefully it's yellow in a week!
Ben, we are scheduled to get another 1-2" over the weekend. North Dakota could get 2-4". Bet the farmers are getting nervous!
Bubba, that is an UBER idea!!!
Randy, big equipment makes life easier most of the time but there is still work involved.
One of our pump sites started to wash out after last week's downpour so we had to haul in dirt and redo some spots. Couldn't get the dirt around the pump with the loader so I hand shoveled and wheel barrowed it in. Took a couple hours, good exercise!
Gonna drive down this morning on the 4 wheeler and see how bad things are. Hopefully nothing washed.
Don, feed buckets/tubs work great until a critter drinks out of it before you check it. My parents have a little 'gauge' in their yard. The heeler knows where it's at and I caught him slurping the other day.
Some old timers won't have a rain gauge on the place....
Bad luck.
Las, horse might be a good way to get to the river this morning, gonna be muddier than hell!
Rattler, you back in WP?
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