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Yesterday, I took one of our landladies to a kickoff picnic for a wind farm that includes two towers on her property.  I am not looking forward to farming around the wind towers or the roads that will access them.  The 100 tower wind farm has to be built and operating by Dec. 31, which is when the government subsidy expires.  That gives them less than 7 months to accomplish it.  I do think it will be interesting to follow the construction progress.  It won't be fun dealing with the tore up fields and the compaction issues when it is finished.
  
Sunday afternoon we went driving around and hiking in Springdale Cemetery in Peoria.  It is listed in the Register of National Historic Places and was opened in 1857.  It encompasses 232 acres of grave sites, woods, ravines, and savannah.  There are over 78,000 people buried there, including over 900 military veterans and numerous prominent and famous people.  There are over 6 1/2 miles of winding driveways throughout to access the grave sites.  Due to fiscal  problems and mismanagement, the cemetery fell into disrepair and went into bankruptcy a few years ago.  It has been rescued, but it will be a long time until it can be fully restored to its former glory.  We visited numerous graves, including the graves of one set of my great grandparents.  Also, for the first time we found the grave of one of my great, great, grandfathers, which I didn't even realize was in that cemetery.

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"Marlboro Man" has been occasionally posting on The Pioneer Woman's blog.  I have enjoyed reading about ranching and the cattle business in the Flint Hills.  That type of agriculture is very different from what I am used to here in the center of the corn belt.  It almost makes me want to be a cowboy.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1 Corinthians 15:55