Saturday May 16, 2009

The weather was much better this morning. After breakfast we went with Nolan and Sheri and got a HUGE lesson in farming. We "helped" them finish the 10 acres of soybeans that needed to be planted. It was incredible to see all of the technology that goes into farming. Using GPS on the planter to know what had already been planted. To the point of shutting off some rows and still dropping seeds in others. It was very cool to experience. With us "greenhorns" helping it took at least twice as long to finish the planting. Once done, we brought the tracter and planter back to the farm. Then we hooked up the pontoon trailer and took it down to the cabin. We put that in for the year and had hot dogs on the grill at the cabin. Being so far off the road, the cabin has only solar power and a little water (500 gallon tank) for washing dishes. However, a mouse got into the line, so the water wasn't so well. We spent some time trying to "fix" this problem. After this, we went back to the farm and got a couple of their toys out. We spent an hour or so playing with their 4-wheelers around the farm. We took them up to their son Todd's pig containment buildings. Todd has 4800 hogs in 2 containment buildings. One of the buildings, or half his stock, will be going out on Tuesday morning. Then in about 2 weeks he gets a new lot. Saturday evening we went to Remsen, for a 30th anniversary of a friend of Nolan and Sheri. Dinner and dancing. Lots of fun.

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