For those of you who think I should be posting more.....here goes! See that picture above? That is our screen door to the front porch from the dining room - after Jack tried to come through it in a thunderstorm last week. To his credit, it was a bad storm, and we weren't home to rescue him in his hour of need. We were heading back from returning the sawdust wagon to CIC in Plover when the storm hit - it hailed pretty bad where we were - lots of damage to standing corn. The worst damage we saw, though, was north of us by Peterson Mills on Co. Rd. V - the soybean fields looked like harvested snap bean fields, and the corn was pretty well shredded. They must have felt singled out, as it seemed to go right down the road past their place and mostly in their fields. We had some very minor damage to a corn field about a mile north of the farm. All else seems to look pretty good. The corn is all tassled out now and starting to set ears - I can smell the silks as I run/bike past.
Because of Jack's insistence on our replacing the front door, we ended up getting two new screen doors for the front porch entrances. The one Jack went through was there since long before we moved in here, 34 years ago. The other one was a full screen door that we had put on a few years ago - never did fit very well. The new ones are mostly installed now.....hey - we live on a farm! ;) We think there were already pawprints on the one by the dining room, though....hmmm. There were a couple of nights that we had dogs in the bedroom with us again. Not ideal, but better than having them tear down the half-door on the utility room in their fright.
Tomorrow is our Sunday off - yay! If it works out on the other end, we will go up to visit the Baldwin Boys, and check out the route for the half-marathon I will be doing in August (Stillwater, MN to Hudson, WI). That is less than a month away! My training is going much better this time around, with a 10-mile run scheduled for tomorrow morning, early. I have to try and beat the heat, and also to get the run in before we want to head to Baldwin.
Farm-wise, we are keeping an eye on the weather, trying to outsmart the rain to get second crop hay in. Nothing is cut, so far.
Hopefully later this next week we will get the folks hooked back up to the internet - thanks for the footwork, etc. Heather! We are hoping that it will help the folks, Mom especially, not to feel so isolated. They really enjoy hearing from family and friends. Dad continues to do pretty well, even though a visit to the VA Clinic this past Monday found him unqualified to take Plavix, according to their guidelines. For now, he will be going on a regimen of baby aspirin, every other day. Oh, and we just got an email yesterday that my brother Mike will be coming for a long weekend in August to visit the folks - they are thrilled! ;)
[There, how's that, Mike S.?? ;P ]
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