Monday, January 15, 2024
Yes, it’s cold out there! From a low temp of 0ºF last night, we zoomed up all the way to 7ºF this afternoon! Not quite a heat wave, huh? I guess we are supposed to have another zero night and single digit day coming tomorrow. After that, the daytime temps will get up in the 30s, and that will feel downright balmy. At least, the skies are sunny, and that is easier to tolerate rather than a typical gray and gloomy winter day.
Not much happening here at Carnahan & Sons this week. Brandon was aiming to deliver some corn to GPC today, and that wouldn’t be a bad thing to do… at least the roads are frozen and dry and clean. But GPC notified him that their scales were frozen and inoperable. So, he’s hoping to do some grain hauling tomorrow. There are also a few loads of wheat still to deliver to ADM in Evansville.
The planting prescriptions for the 2024 soybean crop have been all written. Now, my attention must turn to writing nitrogen prescriptions for the 2024 corn fields. That should be less cumbersome than the planting prescriptions, for only 1 ‘script per field will be needed.
John has been doing some cleaning on the new-to-us garage we acquired when the farm purchased my late brother’s adjacent property. He has it ready now for the new garage doors to be installed. Once that is done, we will store a pickup there, and other farm stuff. It will be quite useful to us.
The JD combine is still waiting at Miller Machine in Vincennes for them to get the wheel hub repaired that was damaged last fall when the tire service man sawed off one of the bolts in the hub. He had to work on it in the field the day when I encountered a deer antler (see the post for October 14, 2023) I’m eager to get that combine home so it can be cleaned up and stored away until we need it next summer. I hate to have our machines sitting out in the elements; it seems the sun fades the paint too much when you can’t bring any machine under roof.
Tomorrow night will be one of the biggest basketball games of the year when our Purdue Boilermakers play at Assembly Hall at IU. We dropped one slot this week down to #2. We lost to the Hoosiers twice last year. Before that, we had become accustomed to winning versus IU over the past 5-6 years. Now that Mike Woodson is coaching in Bloomington, the Hoosiers are getting better. The Boilermakers should be able to win, but you can take nothing for granted after the tip-off! This game is broadcast only on Peacock, and that is causing some complications in getting to watch it. My Apple TV is having trouble connecting to the wireless network in my house, and I may have to watch the game on an iPad. I’m hoping I can figure this all out before game time tomorrow. It’s not as simple as the days when IU and Purdue were broadcast here in Indiana on the Farm Bureau Network.
So, keep warm! Better days are a-comin’.
