Ed Shantz

Very peaceful on the French River this morning.

Easy combining and lots of dust when corn is at 20%

Weather doesn’t get much better than the last few days. Unusual to need the a/c working to the max at this time of year. A bit hard to see for a while at sunset- should have stopped and cleaned the windows.

I guess I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

Good day for lunch in Goderich. A bit overcast so not too busy. No freighters loading at P&H today.

Back at it. Snow is mostly gone. Nice day at the moment (and moisture has dropped about 4 points) A bit surprising given how wet it has been

My 8 year old grandson said those wagons look like they’re filled with yellow gold- maybe a bigger Christmas present. I said the price of that gold not too good this year and not much of it and gave him the old cash crop saying. Maybe next year.

Fiery sunset earlier

Soybeans are done, warm enough to eat outside, it’s all good

It gets a bit boring with Brant usually the lowest yield area in SW Ont in the dry years. On a good note I ran into ⁦@MoeChauvin⁩ and ⁦@CathyChauvin⁩ at the Outdoor Farm Show. Have followed them on X for awhile. Had a nice chat- we had the same MF combine for a while

Done a lot of oil changes in my 70+ years. You would think by now I could figure out how to do one without getting some oil on the floor- very irritating. Maybe time to invest in a bigger flat oil drain tank (or get someone else to do it).

The way they move straw on the Mekong River. No Horst bale wagons anywhere.

Whole different world in Hanoi. Need to hold your beer tight when the train goes by. Around 8 million people (and around the same # of scooters)- bit of a crap show crossing a street.

The lull before the family Christmas storm.

Kind of think a 40’ header might be a bit much for my old MF 8780

Seems like every other year parts of Brant is dry at some point. Screenshot is Agricorp rain data on a farm we have north of Paris. 34mm in Aug (little rain here since mid-July) is about 4th lowest in all of Agricorp’s 350ish sites. Soybeans looked great earlier- not so good now

A pretty good day. Good deals at Millbank Hardware. Then a bit of low- cal stuff at Anna Mae’s

70th anniversary of CKCO Kitchener (have watched the 6 pm news for about 60 years). I miss the @jdavidimrie farm reports. Seems a bit uncertain how much longer Bell Media will keep local news from Kitchener given the recent cuts.

Tapping trees with the family today. I hope we haven’t missed the best part of the sap run. Long term forecast doesn’t look that promising for a good run.

How does that saying go? Something like many hands make small work.