Indiana scares me.

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And I'm a farmer.


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bookcouple:
Doesn’t look so bad
gschmelzer:
The state seems wonderful. As someone who thoroughly loves an empty, rural environment, it seems wonderful. What bothers me is the stretches of nothing populated only by "unbelievers are going to hell" type billboards. It sort of freaks me out.

Thursday

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It will be a short day today, we're getting ready to head out tomorrow. Farm news will be replaced with travel news until January. Have a good one.

bookcouple:
Cool

Thankful

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My oldest daughter has needed a surgery, and it was scheduled for next Wednesday. On Friday, we're heading to Chicago for two days before flying over to be there for her surgery as well as spend Christmas and new years with my children.

I've just received word that they lived the surgery up to today following an appointment yesterday afternoon, and that it has gone...
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gschmelzer:
Her growth started growing again, so they removed it and are going to re-biopsy it. I apologize if that's not the correct wording, that's my understanding after translating it out of German. 😂 Also, the "we're" in my post should have been "we were", as in "we were going... for her surgery." We are still heading over, it's just going to be after the surgery now.
bookcouple:
That’s wonderful!

Be safe out there.

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This is the time of the year I spend a lot of time on the road, and usually with large loads.

I've been processing it since, but about a week ago I was heading down the road with a load full of soybeans. The road outside the farm my parents live on is a flat, straight stretch of state highway. I had just got up...
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bookcouple:
That’s just scary

Question

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I know this is an odd place to post this, but does anyone want to see what modern farming looks like?

I run a grain and beef farming operation with my dad and brother, and my girlfriend's family has a fruit farm and orchard on one side and a tree farm on the other.

I don't want to plug timelines, so I'm thinking that if...
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gschmelzer:
@royal I had to read what this was to remember 😂 I'll try to post something tonight
fullfeeling:
I'm interested, too.  Grew up in Iowa, and one whole side of my family farmed.  It's been almost two decades since the last farm in my family was sold, though, so I'm not up on how things are done these days.

Movie

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They've been filming a movie in my area, and have left the neighboring hillside. Now they're in a local town and supposed to wrap up today.

I'm trying not to be the local farmer that doesn't like outsiders...... But these outsiders don't know how to drive.

I don't think there are hills where they're from.

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gadget:
and wow... it also sounds like they don't know the area where their working. How did they not do a proper risk assessment to protect people? Ugh, not very reassuring!
gschmelzer:
Yes. 😂 and I figure that everyone can have moments of idiocy.
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