Posted on 05/05/2007 5:31:37 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
A nice day, here...few bugs, not too hot, just right.
Hi everyone!
prairie, glad you're about to see your daughter!
Bee, love to read about Colorado..it occupies a place in my heart...so many places do...Guess I'm a "place" person...
It's a little cool out there, but the sun is shining..
Yes, D., we had a good run down to Columbus yesterday...did some things, and had lunch at....a French restaurant. How 'bout that?? LOL! An old favorite we hadn't visited in a few years as we're not traveling thru Columbus area as much as we used to.
How’s your back, M.?? Better, I hope...
Hi, Molly. I’m multi tasking. Watching b’ball, hand sewing and playing with the ‘puter.
hand sewing = sewing by hand, not sewing my hand or anyone elses, either. ;-)
So Clemons...???!!
Rats! I missed that interview on YES network.
Egos can sure take over...
Yes, they can.
Games over. I’m going to take my sewing outside by the pond. BBL.
Your day trip sounds like fun. Have you ever tasted escargots before? I still remember that scene on I Love Lucy where she was in a French cafe ordering the escargots.
It still cracks me up everytime I see it.
Yes, great news about the Sarkozy win in France!
Woo hoo. He’s interviewing now.
The other players were the ones calling/emailing him to come back.
And Hughes will gladly watch/listen and learn under one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history.
Piffle on the nay-sayers.
It’ll be fun watching him and Andy Pettitte back together again.
I am excited.
(I’m also going to thursday’s game against the Rangers ;-) )
Clemons what? What am I missing? Yanks?/
Yes. Things were soggy and muddy here. BEFORE today's rain. Now it's a swamp.
Some of the fields haven’t even been worked,
Or perhaps they were no-tilled. The increased cost of fuel is driving that trend
many not planted.
those farmers were picking their dry spots to plant.
Some appeared to have just been planted but then received a gully-washer which caused the furrows to fill in and might cause soil crusting.
The pounding rain we had today will most likely cause crusting. We rotary hoed everything that was already planted last week when the seed was trying to bust thru the crust without success.
I have NEVER seen it rain as hard as it did today. The outlet terraces ran over and had holes blown out of them from the water pressure. There were big ponds in the middle of the flatland and wide swaths of water rushing thru the low spots in the hills.
Some people we talk with say May 5, others say May 15, but most settle on May 10 as the deadline for planting before significant yield loss potential occurs.
May 10 is a reasonable guess. Of course a lot is determined by the CSR, too. And many of the midseason varieties have exceptional yeild potential. It will be a roll of the dice. Some will take the risk and plant full season corn thru the end of May.
I have to wonder, if we had several wet years in a row.....would America chose to feed the livestock or feed theirs cars?
May I answer that? Those who grow their corn to feed their own livestock will have no problems. Those who grow corn as a cash crop will sell to the highest bidder.
The Rocket is coming back to the Yanks.
I see that I need to go back to the HTML sandbox.
I’d correct it, but it’s not likely that anyone but pb is actually interested.
She knows what she wrote, and can pick out MY responses within all that italics
So very sorry, pb
The “youths” have already been alerted as to their task in France. Hopefully nobody will be killed, too bad the french population aren’t allowed to defend themselves and their property.
It will be a HUGE test of the new French leader to see if he can rise to the challenge, motivate his country and fight through their bureaucracy to the levels needed to bring about any meaningful change.
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