Thursday, March 2, 2023

There are some early flowers popping up these days.  The recent several days of warmer weather has most of the daffodils (mom called them ‘Easter flowers’) in full bloom.  I can see some tulips coming through the ground at home, and the faintest hint of the tips of the peonies, too.  Sure feels early to be seeing such things, but that’s what we’ve got going on here.

I’m not sure just what kind of flower this is, but it certainly looks nice for late winter.

The wheat crop is improving in its appearance.  We were able to put on the first pass of nitrogen fertilizer a few weeks ago, and it is responding well to that nutrition with a deep green and healthy color.

We are making an improvement to our water supply for the farm.  We are installing a dedicated line from the water company just for the farm’s use.  Soon, we won’t be sharing water service with two homes, for each will have a meter and supply of its own!  It’s a big project, because of the distance from the county road, but we look forward to a more consistent supply of water for the farm.  Another increment of farm improvement.

The trench is socked down there about 3.5 feet!

As the trench is dug, the crew from Atkinson Trenching fits the sections of the pipes together, along with a locator wire, and lowers them  down into the ground.

Will have to stay up a bit later tonight because the Purdue at Wisconsin basketball game starts at 9pm!   A win up there tonight would lock in an outright B1G championship, the first since 2017 (Pat and I were there that night!).   Go Boilermakers!