View of the day-A windmill in wheat.
Well, the old rain gauge let us down again. This time we were rattled out of slumber with the crack of thunder and it continued right through the morning. We never even attempted to go out to the field...we knew it would be wet, so we don't know how much it rained at the field.
We checked out a few places around town, intending to hit the big fireworks store to stock up for the 4th, but time was short and we had a appointment to keep after lunch. We spent the better part of the after noon at the My Coffee cafe, getting caffeined up and discussing all things harvesting with Jason Holcomb, an Associate Professor of Geography from Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky and his girlfriend and reasearch assistant, Heather. Jason had gone on the harvest run for several seasons and is working on a project dealing with the change to international laborers on the harvest run. He is also going to be working on an oral history of custom harvesting. It was a fascinating afternoon and once he has his own blog up and running we will include a link so you can find out more about his work.
After we parted ways, we brought the laptop into the cafe and Al did a bit of catching up on the internet...all but killing the battery on the laptop. After a late supper, Al went back to the camper to recover and Marilyn got her exercise by doing a few laps around Wal-Mart...not to much heavy lifting and only double digits on the receipt...
Marilyn decided to try and get the blog update done before driving back to the camper, since the wireless hotspot is right next to the Wal-Mart lot. There wasn't enough juice left on the laptop, so she went back to the camper, finished it off, then went back on the road to upload.
The sun came out in the afternoon and it was really pleasant out...not too hot and a dry wind from the north.
It seems promising for tomorrow...
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