We hope everyone has had a pleasant and gratifying Thanksgiving. Our weather at the farm was remarkable. We can never recall such November weather. It's like October and November changed places this year.They said on the TV that it has been almost nine months since our last observable snow. It doesn't seem possible but they claim it is. When I first came to Syracuse in 1960, the natives talked about eleven months of winter with August being poor sledding. It must be global warming. I can remember snowmobiling being a part of several Thanksgivings.

Both Eileen and Jim are home from college. They have a lot of catching up to do with their friends. Jim has also had a chance to reacquaint himself with heifer feeding and fence building.

All our field crops are in and delivered. The soybeans were excellent on two fields and about average on the field that flooded. The corn was somewhat above average. However, we took a big deduction for high moisture. The optimum is 15% and we were 25%. They deduct for the cost of drying the grain. All in all, I'd rather pay the moisture penalty and have the crop harvested.

We have a steer calf and heifer calf ready to be delivered tomorrow. The new owner is a young lady two towns over. She borrowed a cow calf pair last summer to see how she might like to add cattle to her farm. She already has sheep and cattle are the next step. She plans on showing the cattle next summer.

Our cattle are doing well and just loafing around as they await winter. We believe that all the cows are pregnant. Some of them will be calving into the summer which is a little later than usual. The belties are over in their own area with Mc Leod their bull. They have a particularly nonchalant view towards the weather.

We have entered two of the four Lowline heifers we took to Minnesota in the Denver show. The other two will be sold by private treaty in Minnesota..

The diner remains calm and unremarkable. The politicians don't do much this time of year or actually much anytime. The level of diner indignation is a function of the politicians activity.