Corn, Corn, Corn

This past week has been corn dominated. I started off last sunday by going to the Corn festival in Wilmington with the Corns sisters. The festival itself was a mixture of the antique machinery show that I used to frequent, and a flea market. The food was what I would have expected from a fairgrounds based event. It was however nice to get to hang around with the vet assistant and her sister. Sometimes I may dominate her time with much. Seeing her interact with her sister was pretty cool.

We also started our corn harvesting for the year last monday. My crop has been the highlight of the season thus far, outpacing dad and grandpas fields by nearly 30 bushels per acre. All this adds up and with the market at a high, I went ahead and sold all my corn. This turned out to be a big payday for me, I won't have to worry about selling my beans anytime soon to have more income. I should have enough to finish off all my agriculture based bills, get my savings where it was last June, and do some home renovations. As I was telling the vet tech the other day, we are lucky to be making the progress we are. The fields are especially dry, the corn is ready early, and the tobacco is all done and put in. We are planning on finishing by the middle of this week with corn, and I don't think any of the beans will be ready for another week or so after that. The bean crop looks to be below average by my novice eye, but the price is currently high enough to be profitable. Hopefully the price can maintain until we are finished this season.

Speaking of tobacco, we did exceptionally well harvesting this year. In three weeks we put in 20 so acres, and found time to take a week off between and finish the week of labor day. I was impressed with our effort. We hired nearly everyone that came by and said they would work which turned out pretty well. Dad was impressed also, but grandpa didn't know what to do when he had twenty people to keep an eye on to boss around. It was however like dad said, when we had mexicans we wanted to stretch out the work to last as long as we could. With a larger crew we weren't responsible for after work hours and when the work was done, and as such we did the work as fast as we wanted to.

I also recently finished my graduate degree/program. Now that I have a new certification, I need to renew my teaching license. Right now it is expired and I am not sure if I am allowed to sub without one. I should have the paperwork in the mail in the morning, but schools have not called at all as of now, so I am not very worried.

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