Boyd C. Reeder

E-mail #8

Another "How's your day going?" e-mail.

Well, let's see...

I didn't get my 4-wheeler stuck in the ditch.  I also wasn't the one who cleaned out the ditch and made its' sides steeper so that I couldn't get out like always had.
I also didn't get the whole side of my body covered in mud, have to walk back to the house only to be stopped by a neighbor wondering if I was okay and needed any help.
That neighbor also didn't warn me about "Safety First", to which the reply was, "but then I wouldn't have any good stories to share".
Nope, that wouldn't be me, but it might very well have actually happened to a certain farmer I know.

Just July

 iPhone dump

 Not much new...

 Same sky, different day

 Haylee helping out.

 Pretty at night.

 Super hot all day!

As Seen in Real Life

Yep, these are scenes of real life around here.

 I took a day off a while back to haul 1st crop.  It is almost time to cut 2nd crop.  Lucky for us, we should have all of the hay we can put up sold for the year.  Sold to someone who actually has money to pay us.  BONUS!!!

 In preparation for irrigating the alfalfa the first time, Boyd burned the ditch.  I ran the water truck (AKA 4-wheeler with spray tank full of water).   It was HOT, HOT, HOT!  Nothing that we didn't want to burn, was burned nor was the County Fire Dept. called out.  That is a successful endeavor!

 Boyd was lucky enough to have Jasmine and Maggie help him water.

 Speaking of water, we make an almost daily trip to our little bit of paradise.  Cools off bodies and minds.  Very calming!

 Plenty of moss in the ditch.  This makes for slower watering times and sore backs forking it out of the head gate.

 The corn is watered up for the first of many times to come this season. 

  It wasn't without a bit of an old wild west water fight.  Seems someone in the neighborhood thinks that it is okay to pull boards and take water when it isn't their turn.  Good thing we have extra eyes on the look out and friends willing to help us out.  It turned into a showdown at high noon, and at 6:00 p.m.and even lasted until Midnight.  Well, it really isn't a show down I suppose if the chicken liver pulling the boards skedaddles out of there when he sees Boyd sitting at the top of the road.  This guy has done this to more than one farmer on this ditch.  Time to get the law involved since the ditch rider and the Canal Company board member haven't convinced him to behave.  Wish us luck for the next go -rounds.

 Notice how perfectly sectioned off those dikes are?  Yeah, well I walked that ditch bank up and down and up and down counting rows of corn and marking the sections with stakes.  Boyd, well he just dug the siphon tube pits and made the dikes, that's all. 

 If you look close at the next picture you might find the farmer checking the water's progress.  Don't worry about the corn laying down at the top of the field.  Just a hazard of making the dikes.   Gotta sacrifice a few stalks for the benefit of the most. 

July Sky

Fully Feathered

I knew I had some pictures of my robins completely feathered out and I finally found them.  So, here you go.  I just knew you couldn't go on living without seeing them :)

Fireworks!!!