One of the greatest things about going home is all the things you remember about your past. It’s like the fog clearing on a bright and sunny morning.
As I write this column, I’m “home” spending time at the farm I grew up on in North Dakota. In the middle of our time here, we got a soaker of a rainstorm. Over three inches of rain came in just a few hours. Pretty much anywhere in the country, when you get that much water, that fast, it usually leads to some pretty good flooding. When you consider the fact that the waters were just receding from the last heavy downpour, it made the flooding seem even more dramatic.
From a purely farming mindset, you generally do not want to look negatively on additional moisture. But when your fields are flooding yet again, following one of the wettest spring seasons you’ve had in some time, it can be a little trying on your patience. |
|