Harvest 2009 — finally done on Friday, day 32!!!!

My last harvest entry was Thursday, August 20th, day 17. In between then and Monday, August 31st, day 28, we did . . . well, we actually did a lot.
But we didn’t do any harvesting.
During that whole time, we were waiting for the springwheat to finish drying out. We got some intermittent showers in there [...]

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Harvest 2009, days 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11

ARGH!!!! Meant to keep this a lot more updated, but got too busy and fell behind. So,  I’m condensing about six posts into one.
On Sunday, we tried cutting again in the afternoon and the wheat was dry enough we could cut. I’ve picked Sundays to be fried chicken (from Albertson’s) day. I thought we were [...]

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Harvest 2009, days 4 & 5

Time to rest and relax and recharge. We got a 1/2 inch of rain yesterday morning, and it’s been relatively cool since then. So everything is still too wet to cut.
Of course, as my brother pointed out, that means when it warms up and dries out (probably by tomorrow or Monday) then all the winterwheat [...]

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Harvest 2009, day 3

It was supposed to rain last night, but didn’t. As of this morning NOAA said we had an 80% chance of rain today and tonight and 70% chance tomorrow and tomorrow night. It was cloudy and a bit muggy today, so the wheat straw was still tough. But we cut almost all day and the [...]

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Harvest 2009, day 2

Cut all day today, just our combine still. Custom cutters may show up tomorrow or the next day, assuming we don’t get rained out tonight. Cut the fields around the house. This combine was bought used a couple years ago, but is “new” for us. It’s also a Case IH, which is different for us [...]

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Harvest 2009, day 1

Started cutting today around 2 PM. Thought it would be a bit green, but it was 12% moisture, which is good and even a bit on the low side. So far, it’s just our combine, but the custom cutting crew we use showed up in the afternoon, said they had gotten rained out in Geraldine [...]

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Entitled College Students — Such a good article, and so awful at the same time

The article is “Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes“(1) The subject of the article is just that — college students who feel completely entitled to good grades just for showing up. (Hat tip to slublog over at Ace of Spades.)
One of the examples cited in the article is Professor Marshall Grossman of the University [...]

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Web Standards

After a long hiatus from doing anything creative or constructive  on the web — besides infrequent comments on various blogs — I am going to start playing around with various web pages and code and layout again. And trying to write more stuff in general.
I have been following a number of sites that talk about [...]

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A big thanks to all the military veterans out there!!

I didn’t go to the local Veterans’ Day memorial service in Great Falls (and I still feel kind of guilty about that), but I did want to put up a post saying thanks to all our military veterans.
There are always a number of daily cartoons that will send out a big thank you to the [...]

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Happy Veteran’s Day!!!!

The comic for “Over the Hedge” for Nov 11 does a better job celebrating Veteran’s Day than anything I could write, so I am just going to post it here:

Reading up about the history of Veteran’s Day, I found that it was originally called “Armistice Day” and celebrated the end of World War I. It [...]

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Interesting website, not sure if the organization does that much . . . .

http://www.nascocorridor.com/
“Tri-National Advocacy for Efficient, Secure, and Environmentally Conscious Trade & Transportation”
(Probably vastly over-simplified) Summary: A group which recognizes that trade between Canada, the U.S.A., and Mexico, and between all three countries and the rest of the world, is crucial to the economy of all three countries and is steadily growing in volume. Which is a [...]

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A couple of quick links

‘Private’ online photos really aren’t. D’uh. An article by Wayne Perry of the Associated Press, dated July 12th, details how people who put up photos of themselves on the internet find those photos coming back to haunt them at inopportune times. As friend of mine once said, you can throw away paper but e-mail lives [...]

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Wow, that’s a nice map!!

I’ve recently been shown where the state of Montana’s website has a lookup utility that allows you to see the ownership, tax value, etc. of different parcels of land. It’s a pretty neat website they put together, and quite interesting to browse through.
On a (sort of) related note, the Environmental Working Group’s website has [...]

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IPC LF & TN news from late September to early October

And here are some more interesting tidbits from the IPC’s Technet & Leadfree lists, from September 29 to October 3, 2006.

There was a question about tests for hexavalent chromium. This is still a very thorny issue because RoHS bans hexavalent chromium (Cr6), but trivalent chromium (Cr3) is still okay; however, [...]

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IPC LF & TN news from late September

Once again, I’m trying to catch up on my reading on the IPC Lead-Free & TechNet discussion lists. Right now, I’m about three months (!!) and 2000 e-mails (!!!!!). Here is some news dating from September 24 to September 29.

A couple of posters noted Ireland was the most likely country to initiate the first [...]

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