RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 10/06/18> I have some “es plaining” to do… plus SBI Saturday
Well, hell. I learn something every day. I didn't realize that 'splainen was really two words. I'll write it es plaining from now on. Wouldn't want to slaughter a language that is so prevalent around here....
Oh, I knew that John Law wasn't your friend, I was just giving you a little goose to see what happens :) Those super plain vehicles just irritate me. State of Arizona has 'E cars' on the freeways at least. They are rolling along about 5 over in their Ford Explorers that don't have a single mark on them but the license plate and an antenna cluster near the rear. They aren't just IDing speeders for the waiting wolf pack, they are checking ownership and registrations for EVERY CAR THEY SEE going both ways.
Looks to me like the cotton crop was pretty good in this part of the world this year too. I judge from a gin that I drive by routinely and how many bales are in the 'holding pens'. I'm going to go by today and see if any of the 'auxiliary lots' have water damage. They grade those things just level and we had enough rain for there to be some rouge water.
So we get down to the congratulations point. I reckon three. 1 the poker tourney. Back to back is seriously cool. 2. The cow girl clearing the hood of a pickup. I've heard of that, and from trusted sources, but I've never been a witness or judge. Congratulations for doing something most never get to see. 3. The SBI giveaway. That is just so cool, I really appreciate that you do it every week.
That is about it from here. Sam and I are going with our friend Erv (Sam's co dad) to check out some canyons and back country to see how much the rain changed things. The weather has cooled enough that we can spend a few hours at it. I'm excited and Sam will be out of his mind with miles of fresh dirt to sniff.
Thanks Big Tom, I hope the adventure is a safe one for you, Sam, and Erv. Maybe the rains will have unearthed some old hidden gold from a stage coach robbery that had been hidden by the robbers.
Last year the cotton crop took a real beating with the hurricane a lot that had been harvested ended up ruined by flowing water tearing the plastic off of the round bales and the bales just dissolved. What hadn't been harvested end up falling off the plants from the pounding rain and high winds and ended up in the dirt, which might explain why the crop was so good this year, plenty of seed in the fields plus the seed that was planted.
It will be a day of rest for me and I guess I need to check what time the poker game is today and see if I can't pull off the hat trick, that would really be something if I could do that.
Well, the adventure was fun. We didn't go past the Gin (as it turns out, we should have) but they were ginning this morning by the time we got near enough to see. Looked like a local fog before sun up, but it was just cotton dust:)
I don't think anybody got caught with their cotton in the field, but maybe a few did. They are supposed to be finished with picking here by the 15th of October. A lot of the equipment is rented so the cotton association makes everybody in the same area be ready at the same time. The trucks that handle those bales and other stuff. Anyway, they start south and east of here and want to be done in Yuma County by October 15 then move on to Maricopa and Pinal Counties (Phoenix and Tucson) Those guys could have gotten hammered.
We have a cotton gin museum in Burton, Texas not far from Brenham and the Blue Bell Ice Cream place, I need to do a Daily Dose some day on that place so people can see just what cotton ginning is all about. Thanks for making me think of that, I will put it on my to do list.