Today was a day to pay some respect… Ours is not so much for our veterans but for our veteran family and others…
Got up a bit earlier than usual and made it to church , after breakfast. When we got back I proposed that we make a cemetery day trip… I had some plastic flowers that we could set out and I was sure that few if anyone would put out flowers for Grandma Ishmael and maybe some of the others that do not have family close… so we were off by about 1:30…
But as I was ready to leave, I did have a visitor.
Took the west route to via Hennessey and saw the wheat fields on the way… not a pretty site for a wheat farmer… lucky if some of them make 10 bu/ac…
This is so short I doubt that combine can capture all of it anyway… and thin enough you could see the ground way out there..
a lot are being mowed and baled as they are not worth waiting on harvest… I did capture a “dual crop” site…
someone had put out a lot of bee hives to harvest the flowers from the Canola fields around it… looked like a decent plan to me as the seed crop was not going to make much, hope the honey turns out…
Stopped in Hennessey to get a big Cherry Limeade… and found the last bird was a bit heavy?
We circled by the old farm, looked at the old well site and it is still a mess? Since we no longer own the surface rights it is not ours to push on but the oil company has done nothing to clean it up? They did plug it last year and took all the equipment out but left this mess?
They took the fence that protected it from having cattle in it and left this? I would think the surface owner would be getting a bit more frantic to get it cleaned up?
The place where I grew up… although it didn’t have all those barns till later on but was a nice farm.
We run into the renter and talked about the operations and how he was doing… not a good year and the little rain was welcome..
moved on to the Del Norte Cemetery and viewed the graves there… then on through Drummond and took a short detour to the housing NE of town… I hadn’t been up there in years … found this guy asleep in a wooden barrel but he got up when I wanted to get his picture.
On to Enid for a pit stop , a bit of gas and then on to the Enid Cemetery… put out flowers on Grandma’s grave… then on to my parents and a few aunts and uncles at the North Enid cemetery….
Once we had put out some more flowers and checked and replaced some on the graves we headed home… we had not been in much rain all day but it threatened a lot…
Hey it is about harvest time… time for rain showers?
When we got on HWY 51 we hit rain just before the lake and it was wet all the way to ???? about 1/2 mile from our house… then we could also see it was raining in town? Why are we so lucky to miss all the good one? oh well, maybe tonight or tomorrow…
We hadn’t eaten since breakfast so we grabbed a burger at sonic and home… after dinner I played radio again… captured a few more on 10 and 17 meter… slowly I am getting the states on my list done…
WD0AJG