The rain yesterday, last night and today took most of the leaves off the trees. About two inches here, it is making crops farmers edgy with the wait, but we all need to realize that this may be the rain we are not going to get next June and be glad for it. Here, we have a certain amount of crop harvest to do, but more importantly, we must finish a job started last summer to move the drinkers out of the gestating sow hoops thus improving winter inside conditions for them. The window is closing on outdoor concrete work.
Blackbirds flock up. Geese have been overhead for three weeks. Not so many pheasants this year, but the deer are starting to move. Cattle are rounding the north pasture for one last time before going back to the cropping fields for their annual gleaning chore. And the gestating sows are out in pasture every day, finding whatever they can. In perhaps six weeks everything will be on stored feeds and the expenses start to run. Work or no work, we should enjoy fall! It is the pause that refreshes.
Jim
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