dusting corn

Once each year the farmer on the north side of our Scottsbluff home aerial sprays his corn field for insects.  This can get rather exciting as the plane buzzes close over the top of our second story bedrooms, but it is very neat to see how skilled the pilot is at maneuvering his plane.   I would probably reject the offer to be a passenger with a crop duster.  

broken tractor

The one and only do everything tractor has had problems twice in July.  The first time the power take off (PTO) had an electrical problem ($1200 repair bill), the second time bolts in the clutch plate got tore off (do to us trying to work the tractor harder than we should) ($4600 repair bill).  If we had a professional tractor hauler come pick it up and than return it would have cost us $900 each time so we fortunately were able to transport the tractor to town on our own trailer.  We certainly missed not having it for the 3 weeks of July that it was laid up.