I’m reminded that here in good ole’ southern Indiana, we’re about to lose even more daylight as fall gets underway. One hour and 15 minutes of glorious sunshine is gone in October alone.
Thanks to daylight savings time, we’ll be “falling back” on November 2nd. The practice of changing our clocks so that darkness falls at different times has been observed for 117 years, but it still doesn’t change the fact that by the end of October, we’ll have roughly only about 10 1/2 hours of daytime.
Mr. Farmer beat the rain deadline. Yippee!
Mechanical problem fixed, the farmers finished up their harvest here yesterday. Merida will get some rest from her guard duty once they’re gone.
There was a time when I lived in a different house and my office was in a small room that was ceiling-to-floor length windows on 3 sides. It was like sitting in a fish bowl. The driveway went right by that part of the house and I HATED when the farmers used it to travel to the fields and grain bins behind it.
Not sure if it’s because I’m older or if I just like it better here, but I’ve got the blinds all the way up and the farm machinery is just as close to me now as it was at the other house. I love watching the dust fly in the fall, and I hope the crops this year earn Farmer Rex a bajillion dollars.
Now you know: In 1968, Richard Nixon feared that there would be a breakthrough in the Paris Peace Talks between North and South Vietnam, resulting in the war ending and damaging his campaign. Nixon dispatched an aide to tell the South Vietnamese to withdraw from the talks and prolong the war.