May Days
We've had a cold and wet spring, not conducive to much enjoyable outdoor activity. But better days have arrived in the last couple of weeks. Yesterday, my "country neighbor" moved his young steers into the woodsy field next to our front yard. "Davey", the hardest working farmer that I know, has his own calendar for farm activities. These calves kept the barn (and a wellhead) above freezing all winter long. A couple of weeks after the last danger of frost, Davey scoops out the barn, spreads the manure on his 20 acres of corn fields, and moves these guys across the road. I'm not sure what triggers his date for planting corn. All of the big farms have the corn planted, and it's coming up ankle high already. I've seen Davey planting corn in early July some years. I think it's highly dependent upon his old equipment working (which includes his body because he is in well into his 70's). After getting my golden geezer card for reduced cam
