Planting follies, Nice weather, liberal idiots plague my facebook page

And the days go by...

Will it ever rain again? 

We have had the most dry April on record. The river is still high. The fields are dry where they are tiled but wet spots are bottomless. 

The river is running fast and fairly clear. I moved a log off the trail so I can find my happy spot.

I feel that more regulations and increased taxes is the answer to all of our weather issues.

Speaking of idiots, I have been on FaceBook at lot as I am selling feed through marketplace. Suddenly, all the usual liberal tools have the same activist post comparing buying a gun to voting. I am old school and I really wish they would pay homage to the old commie bastards by working in "running dogs of capitalist imperialism," but we must make way for new catch phrases as it is the 21st century and we are working on the great reset. 

I copied these posts of the idiotic Threads app. Somehow I got this installed so it shows up on my FaceBook and Instagram pages. It is an app for idiots to post stupidity. (Sort of like the way FaceBook is for old people)

I have a friend that I worked at the college with. He is very sincere about everything and he is a pastor. I thought he was somewhat of a free thinker, especially after the idiots at the college forced him to get multiple vax shots which nearly killed him twice. Either the third shot gave him mental issues (as it is known to do,) or this torture has given him a "thank you may I have another," complex and he is convinced that the USA is now Nazi Germany. Or what ever the puppet masters post on his morning news feed. I did not post his reworking of the above posts. I just thought I would post his source material.

At least there is pushback. People are tired of hearing about The Great Gun Show loophole myth, the myth of walking into a gun shop IN EVERY STATE and coming out with a gun, is not the reality for most of us. Although, I am not in favor of the Federal Gubment taking over regulations which have traditionally been left up to individual states. I am extremely uncomfortable with the Real ID which is just a step towards the infamous implanted chip. I am very angry with Republicans for supporting the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, and I see the certainty of DOGE becoming the next vehicle used by Big Gubment to restrict our freedom and consolidate power.

I also get a good laugh out of my neighbor who advocates for farmers on her page. But her identity is as a liberal. So people are forever getting on her about the use of glyphosate or her disagreement over Oregon trying to regulate every aspect of farming.  

She is also convinced that Trump is going to send every person of color or odd sexual orientation to a concentration camp so she had to attend two protests at the Capital yesterday. Sort of opposing sides but she feels this means she is open minded.

I must say that at present I am greatly enjoying Trump upsetting the Apple Cart.  I don't have stocks. I essentially do not have retirement. I will have to work every day until I die. I don't like the gubment, it takes my money and restricts everything I want to do. I hate the educational establishment, they fired me and by working for them I lost my daughter. I enjoy seeing them all go broke. If you work for the machine you are the machine, until it turns on you, and then you just need to shut up and take one for the team.

Will it hurt me? Sure, I sell hay to these people. I sell grass seed for their lawns. I buy cheap crap from China. But, if I am going down, I take a lot of pleasure in seeing people who have more than I, losing more than I.

The scary part of this is that I am not alone.

In other news...

I got a 150 acre planting job. This is a Godsend! Of course things went wrong. 

The first problem was with the liquid fertilizer on the grain drill. 

I am planting tillage radish which will be grown for seed. I need to plant at 8lbs per acre on 15" rows. The drill has 24 rows at 7.5" spacing. So I need to plug the seed and fertilizer on every other row.

I have John Guest connector 1/4" valves on each row to turn off the fertilizer and I have a vintage Blumhardt spray boom so of course it is weird. 

After finding half of the valves broke when I turned them off, I cut the hoses on one side and redid the plumbing. The other side was ok. I don't know why.

But then I couldn't get flow. The boom was plugged with black goey stringly stuff. I removed the filter. It was full of feathers. I looked in the tank. A bird had somehow got into the fertilizer system. It was a mess.

However, I did get to the field. Only to find out that now my GPS doesn't work. This is a problem because I have to off set the drill to get correct row spacing. You see there is an even number of openers. Row 24 plants and row 1 is turned off. This is fine going in circles but back and forth planting results in overlap one direction and a double row skip going the other.

I use the program FarmerGPS which runs on a tablet PC. I can program the offset one side or the other and also take info from my automatic rate controller. However, I bought the program over a decade ago and support is essentially nonexistent. I found I needed to change my antenna as the Novatel Smart 6 doesn't handle 7" accuracy like the newer SmartAg versions. (I wish I could find a Novatel SmartAg with Bluetooth AND tilt compensation for a decent price.)

There were difficulties with the switch.

While waiting for the computer I amused myself by looking at fence row junk.

Once I solved the computer issues things went great for several hours. And then the low seed alarm went off. I got out to look and discovered I broke off a opener. I have no idea how this happened. The clamp broke and the clamp was new last summer. Chinese crap strikes again. I had spare parts and tools and I was back in business quite soon.