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Sure would be nice to be one of those rich grain farmers Farming While Beige always talks about. Instead, I have this 50 year old bin with a cracked concrete floor you can never really get all the moldy corn out of. And my pickup truck is 10 years old and rusty. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Tried a new(ish) restaurant tonight. It was very full. On a Thursday night. Yes, our bill was $86 (we had fancy cocktails which was $30 of that, eeek). Social media keeps saying everyone is broke but an expensive place packed on a Thursday night does not meet that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yay. Now a day or two for changeover and then it’s on to the long slog of corn harvest.

As a dedicated clothes chair user i agree

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A U.S. envoy calling murderer Putin a humanitarian while visiting him in Kremlin — when after failing to achieve his military goals, Putin directs Ukrainian civilians to be hunted in the streets or executed in their own homes. Kids will read about this one day and ask: what was everyone else doing?

Writing in National Review, Andrew McCarthy makes out the case that Trump's duplicitous dealings with Putin satisfy the statutory requirements for a treason prosecution. And indeed, they do. Which is probably why most of Trump's dealings with Putin are kept under wraps.

This gets worse and worse and worse. I’m so disgusted by this government squatting in the White House

Took the weekend off of harvesting. The 10 day forecast is dry and sunny which sounds great and also really tiring

Broke down last night and turned the furnace on.

If only we had a modern soybean bin. Sigh. Loading soybeans out of our tiny bins, into the grain cart, so we can fill a semi after the rain ends tomorrow or Friday.

Wolf not included

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall

Hit a broken field cultivator sweep mostly buried in the ground. I didn’t see it, but the very end sickle bar tooth caught it. I was like oh whew, easy fix, just replace the sickle tooth. Umm. Because it was the very end one it is a special snowflake and here we are trying to remove broken bolts

Too close for missiles switching to guns

This afternoon’s Sunday view: harvesting soybeans. You can see the leftovers of the flooded out spot from the summer‘s deluges just ahead of me.

The US announced a deal to import Russian diesel this week, suspending sanctions on those exports until April. We want to speak directly to our supporters in the US and around the world.

For all the good it will do, I actually emailed my congresspeople on the diesel issue. Congress isn’t in session (such a useless Congress) so whatever

I just filled a combine and a tractor with over 250 gallons of diesel and I am wildly, vehemently opposed to doing business with Russia for diesel.

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"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

If you see Trump's "diesel deal" to Putin as anything other than direct aid to Russia to continue their illegal war and war crimes against Ukraine then you do not understand what is happening.

It makes me very angry that my government is doing deals for Russian energy. Fuck Russia.

After an aborted start yesterday due to wet fields and almost getting the combine stuck, we found a drier field and got going today on soybeans. First soybean entry in my harvest tracker is in the books.

Okay goddamn, the warning sirens they have in the new development near the farm are fucking spooky. It’s Tuesday test and they went off. There’s announcement voice, the sirens sound like every zombie horror movie you’ve ever watched and it’s all deeply unsettling. And they come from every direction

Because I need a crazy hobby growing something that isn’t corn and soy beans I’m considering planting pawpaw trees.

Oh, remember the potash thing. Belarus now says it’s fake news. Yes. Really. I cant even begin to describe how fucking stupid trump is thehill.com/policy/inter...

Whew. I guess.

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I received both of these newspapers in yesterday’s mail. One of them is from July. For 20 years, no delivery issues. The last two years, horrendous.

A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.

What have I done.

this talk of “running out” of diesel is THE madness. the U.S. is sitting on 4.08 BILLION gallons of (<15ppm) distillates today, which is up from 4.05 billion a wk ago. just bc a few stations have issues does not mean a nationwide crisis is brewing. now sit down & relax plz.

Hah, Aliens is on Netflix. This is practically a comfort watch, I’m turning it on.

I just met a Romanian who came to our farm to buy hay. Dad somehow got on the topic of Putin, and the dude flat out declared Ukraine was not a country. I did not know that attitude was common in Romania.

I quit going to local barbershops because they all had Fox News blathering. The only talk radio on air for decades is massively conservative. If you want to know ‘how America could do this’ it’s because of right wing propaganda like this, constantly fed into our brains at all times

*babbling noises*

This jaw-dropping story has become ProPublica's most-read article of 2026, with more than 2.2 million views in the first day, a spokesperson tells me

Another thing to worry about when we park our stuff in the fields 10 miles from home in a suburban area 🤷🏻‍♂️

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election