Could you put that into laymans (farm people) terms please?
Hey, I live on a farm too.
It's low in the south. I've you've got really good eyes and you live away from the city, you might see it as a fuzzy patch to the south about midnight, if you let your eyes get used to the darkness for a half hour. If you have any kind of binoculars or a spotting scope, it should show up pretty clear. It'll be getting brighter and higher in the sky for the next month; I'd estimate it'll be easily visible to the naked eye by early January.