Tuesday, January 20, 2026
It is a cold morning in SWIN, 9ºF (-13C). Just a little colder than yesterday morning, but it feels better because today, there is no wind! I don’t mind these cold temps if the wind is not blowing, but when it’s this cold and windy, I turn pretty wimpy pretty fast. They are predicting a warmer day tomorrow (in the low 40s), but a return to single-digit nights for the weekend.
Old Glory flies proudly on yesterday’s clear and cold and windy day
The guys have the Tony truck (07 Peterbilt) out of the shop this morning, they got the few little lights working on it. Today, they’re working on the 8RF340 to find and fix a tiny fuel leak. They haven’t traced it down just yet, but I’m confident they will. They also are headed to Sloan’s in Vincennes to pick up this year’s supply of filters and the repair parts ordered for the soybean drill. (Sloan Implement was running a 20% off parts special) We will have to wait for much warmer days to work on the drill… our shop is too small to unfold it inside. But we will have all the parts on hand that were identified in the inspection.
Congratulations go out to the IU football team on the wildly successful, undefeated season… National Champions! One guy at church on Sunday said, “It must be the end-times!” For all I can see about their Heisman-award-winning QB, he must be an outstanding young man. He is bold to speak of his faith in Jesus, and I appreciate that about him. I wish him well. So, to all the IU fans out there, enjoy! What an amazing story of success!
I worked yesterday in the office (not a bad idea in this cold!). I was compiling all the year-end financial information for our banker. Our books are ‘cash basis’, and for the bank’s purposes, I have to deliver information that effectively converts it to ‘accrual’. It’s not hard, it just requires some attention to details and organizing the information in a different way.
I have some planting prescriptions to write yet… those for the double-crop soybeans (DCB). I have not received the report on the seed size for that variety that we will plant in DCB. When that arrives, I can crank those out pretty easily. It’s not fast, but also not difficult.
These are the tools for prescription-writing. variety seed sizes, a soil survey map, and Operations Center in your computer.
Keep warm out there!
You know, planting season is only 11-12 weeks away! We will be ready.
