Emergence

You know we had a brutal winter when, on May 6, the Great Lakes are still 19% ice covered!

I noticed water bubbling up through the driveway in the barnyard today.  The deep freeze must have caused an underground water line to break.  We will have to find a backhoe and repair it when we get a break.

We had two beautiful days in a row to plant corn, and we were able to finish this afternoon.  Now we will switch to soybeans and try to get them in as quick as we can.  We will need a rain on a couple of fields before we can plant them, because we worked them since the last rain and they have dried out.  Our early planted corn has emerged with this return to warm weather.

Yesterday, I became a Grandpa again!  Daughter #1 gave birth to another precious baby girl.  We are keeping granddaughter #1 at our house for a couple of days, so tonight we took her up to the hospital to see her Mom, Dad, and baby Emmy.  She wasn't impressed.  One minute into the visit she said, "Take me back to the farm, Grandma!"

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis 6:1