Better Late Than Never

First, my apology.  I am not tech savvy.  In fact, I hate computers - I would much rather be outside in my hosta garden or in the kitchen cooking.  However, they are a fact of life and I do appreciate all the conveniences that come along with computer technology.  But, when a computer does not do what it is suppose to do I'm completely lost and FRUSTRATED.  So, here is a post that was to be done a week ago.  There will be a few other late posts coming up.  Please be patient with me - I'm one desperate computer operator.  Now with that little editorial complete, on with the blog.

Every 4th of July I take a picture of Grandpa and the boys in front of a corn field.  There is the old saying, "Knee high by the 4th of July".  That is an old corn farmer's gauge as to how well the crop is doing. 

With the mixed up, crazy spring we basically have three different corn plantings - mid May, late May and mid June.  None of these are considered timely.    If you would like more information about timeliness of corn planting go on back to my blog post titled "The 8th Day of Planting", the end of May.

The field I take a picture of each week on the Growing Season Picture page was one of the first farms planted.  If you hope over to that page you can see how far along this field is.  But on the 4th Dad/Grandpa was side dressing our corn on later planted farms.  So Dad being Dad we took two 4th of July pictures - one on an earlier planted farm and one on a late planted farm. 

Mid season planting of corn
on the 4th of July.

                                                   A late planted field of corn - well, at
                                                   least it made knee high on the boys.

Cheap Fuel!

$.85 E85!   The Clayton County Corn Growers Association is doing a Pump Ethanol Promotion in Elkader, Iowa.  All ethanol blends of fuel at the Three Rivers FS station on Hwy 13 in Elkader, Iowa, are deeply discounted until 2:00 pm today.  It's a great opportunity to fill up for the holiday weekend.  And, rumor has it there are hamburgers, hotdogs, chips and pop/soda/Pepsi for anyone who buys fuel.

Here are some pictures from earlier this morning.
 


Some friendly Corn Growers waiting to pump ethanol fuel and wash some windshields



Showing a customer how to select ethanol blended fuel.

Joe even did a radio spot for FM100

Some day I would like to get our semi wrapped like Bruces car!

Lots of food to go along with the fuel

A great supporter of Ethanol

This corn grower knows the value in using Ethanol!

Jerry - Expert griller