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Get her runnin' and I'll bring the rock. :driving:

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Get her runnin' and I'll bring the rock. :driving:



It's going to take a lot more than a little bit of rock to fix that driveway.
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That’s actual a canal, not a driveway.
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My son took some pix of the silo on the home place with his drone yesterday.


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That is awesome Tom, he must have a good drone because those pictures are really crisp.
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are there any fish in those ponds, Tom?

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So that pix is looking east.  The pond immediately east of the silo we just stocked 2 years ago.  The wife and I caught  and released some small bass and catfish last fall so I think that will be a good fishing hole in the future.

The pond to northeast is not on our farm, but owner has shared pix of some unreal fish he has pulled out of there.


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That's awesome.  Make sure you have some bait fish in there for them to eat.  You must be getting some rain in your area.  The pic makes it look like your grass is still fairly green and the ponds look full and clear.

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That's awesome.  Make sure you have some bait fish in there for them to eat.  You must be getting some rain in your area.  The pic makes it look like your grass is still fairly green and the ponds look full and clear.

https://www.wallacefishfarmks.com/

This is the guy who has stocked all of our ponds with good results. He did a spring stocking with crawdads,  fingerlings, blue gill I think.  Came back in the fall with bass and cat.

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We're actually quite behind on rain.  A couple more good rains might make a bean crop.  Corn is made and not great.  At least we have some ears.  Cousin put his up for silage.


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Tom, great farming knowledge drops ITT.


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Schreds

Btw, you're correct on clearness of the ponds and their water level.  The 2 ponds in the pix are actually quarry ponds after reclamation.  Dad got into rock farming  30 years ago, and this is the by product.

I am always impressed at what you all pick up on in my pix.


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Job well done.  They are great looking ponds.  It's always so much fun fishing a clear, healthy farm pond.  Thanks for sharing.

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We're actually quite behind on rain. 

50+ inches, wow.  i didn't know there was anywhere in kansas that got that much.
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we've probably gotten 50+ inches in the last 24 hours in omaha. it's like the biblical flood from the bible except with good drainage so nobody drowns or gets super wet.

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We're actually quite behind on rain. 

50+ inches, wow.  i didn't know there was anywhere in kansas that got that much.
That's last 10 year average which includes some wet years.  I think a longer view would be 36 in / year.

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i lived in manhattan, ks the one year we got tons of rain and the place was flooded everywhere but if i'm being honest with you, i had a great time that summer


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i lived in manhattan, ks the one year we got tons of rain and the place was flooded everywhere but if i'm being honest with you, i had a great time that summer

That was a super fun summer in MHK except if you lived in some place that got flooded

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i always call it "the summer of rain" when i tell stories from that summer and immediately everyone knows exactly when i am referring to

pretty amazing and a very special moment in mhk history so i commissioned my grandmother to quilt a mhk "summer of rain" memorial quilt and matching vest.  the quilt's motto is "you can wash away our ground soil but nothing can wash away our pride of mhk."    she didn't know how to quilt and never made them for me so i guess you can say what you want but i consider them both to be in the design phase.  hopefully i can get them pulled together (pun) soon.  one surprising fact about the quilt design is that the overarching color scheme does not incorporate purple.  people act like everything in mhk needs to be purple.  don't tell a mhk indian that though because their colors don't bleed.


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I call MHK summer of 2006 the Summer of Rain.  Purple Rain that is.  Prince.


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That’s actual a canal, not a driveway.

It is now

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We're actually quite behind on rain.  A couple more good rains might make a bean crop.  Corn is made and not great.  At least we have some ears.  Cousin put his up for silage.


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Better than a lot of corn around SEK, 15 mi. between feast and famine when it came to rainfall this year. 

Good luck with harvest and post a video when you get the crusher running.

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what's the first non-rock item you're going to run through the crusher? lots of good options out there imo.