Monday, July 28, 2025

We got more rain yesterday evening, a little spotty, but in some places, a significant rain!  Here at the farm office, .2″ (5mm), but according to Climate.com, some fields got as much as another inch!  This was on top of a pretty soggy early week.  Late in the week, John was able to put in some extended days of spraying, and he covered many acres of soybeans with herbicide and/or fungicide.  Some acres saw both at the same time applied, others saw one or the other individually.  He is very accurate in his applications.

Crop dusters (I think they prefer to be called ‘aerial applicators’ these days) have been very busy around Knox County applying fungicides to corn fields.

Seems crazy, they often fly under the powerlines!

We had a special sunset yesterday.

This sunset caught my eye yesterday

…

Today, Pat and I celebrate our 47th wedding anniversary.  It was very hot on that Friday evening in our little non-air-conditioned church.  It was shortly after that event, WCC installed central air in the building!  We had a lovely 2-weeks in Hawaii for our honeymoon, and it was a great start!  We’ve had our ups and downs over the years, but we still have our devotion to each other.  Some of the knocks have been hard ones, and there have been moments of sheer delight.  I think we make a pretty good team, and I’m looking forward to as many years as the Lord continues to give us together.   I’m hoping a nice dinner at a lovely place in Evansville will make our day even more special.

Oh, the long hair and the big glasses, but what a pretty lady on my right hand!

Here we are 47 years later… last Saturday evening, we attended a wedding for a young couple from church.

The hot days and nights continue, but relief is predicted beginning Thursday, with days in the 80s and nights in the low 60s.  That’ll feel much better, and I think the corn and soybeans will prefer it, too.

Have a great week.