Despite my best intentions to write more, its been a month since my last blog. We have been very busy but making lots of progress.

Half our soybeans have been harvested and shipped off to China. With any luck the rest will be done by Tuesday. We are near the Port of Oswego and we really deliver the beans to a ship bound for China.

We have had a few more fall calves and we have the last two cows waiting to freshen. Our new Belted Galloway bull has made himself at home with his herd. His name is Bucky.

The goats have decided that they are small cows. They travel with the Lowlines and try to imitate them.

Our forage radishes have had an almost unbelievable growth spurt. They look like one of those 1950's horror films like the Blob that Ate Brooklyn. I am talking about white radishes 3 inches in diameter and a foot long. They have an amazing amount of vegetation over a five acre field. Probably several million giant radishes..

We sold our grain drill and loaded it on a trailer for Canada yesterday. We have purchased a a combination soybean and corn planter in Indiana. Jim and I plan on driving out there over Thanksgiving to get it.

Mary and I are taking a short trip to Florida later this week. She is driving down with her mother and I am going to fly down and then we'll visit relatives and friends for a few days and fly back together.

Speaking of Mary, she did extraordinarily well in her first half marathon. 13.1 miles in a little over two hours is a Herculean feat by my standards.

Eileen is finishing up her senior year and contemplating what to do next year.

Jim is finding out about Iowa scale agriculture in his spare time. He is working on a farm that feeds 1000 steers and crops several thousand acres. His school work is going well and he is now getting into some really interesting courses.

Things are pretty quiet at the diner. There isn't much election interest. The consensus is that the present bunch will get voted out and replaced by a new bunch who will act just like the current bunch within two weeks of election.

One on my friends has been getting encouraging news about his health and we are all very hopeful.