Wednesday, December 10, 2008

work

This winter I think I’m going to be working a lot because I am broke. I talked to my dad yesterday and he told me that we have a bunch of corn to haul. When we haul corn we take it to the ethanol plant which is in Malta Bend. Malta bend is about 15 miles from Marshall on 65 Highway. We have two semi that look identical one of them is a 1993 Mack it has all alumina wheels and it’s white with blue pin stripe. The new one is a 2000 it has polished alumina wheels which are shinier than the other ones. But it too is white with a blue pin stripe. Also we have a 1979 ten wheeler which is white with a blue dump bed. It’s a pretty rough truck the transmission is about to be done and the cab has a mice in it a few times.

Last night

Last night I was at my friends house hanging out and another guy I know came over and he brought a friend that none of us knew. At first he seemed alright I mean he was already really drunk, which I mean isn’t really a big deal as long as they don’t act retarded. Well this kid did first he stole a whole 24 pack of beer. And we didn’t know it was him so we just thought maybe we drank it. Then a girl that was there couldn’t find her boots. After that we were like what the hell is going on then he took a sack full of deer meat. By this time people have seen him carrying this stuff out so we called him out and he just denied all of it. I guess he was just so out of it that he didn’t know he did it.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Farm

After I get out of college I’m going straight back to the farm because that is where my heart is. This is a song that talks about I want to go back where the green grass grows and watch my corn pop up in rows, well that’s exactly where I want to be for the rest of my life. But while I’m here at college I have decided that I’m not here just to say I went to college or put it on my resume. I’m here because I want to learn and get information on how to make my farm the most successful farm it can be. I don’t want to have to be 40 years old and worrying about money, by the time I’m that age I want to be able to go out and do what I want and have the money to be able to do it.

CaseIH vs John Deere

With their 4 wheel drive tractors case has them beat again because of the motor. John Deere has their own motor in it, its ok it just doesn’t deliver the power that it should. The case tractors bout out the company Steiger about 10 years ago and now they run a Cummins Ivicky motor, which is a high out -put durable motor. Ivicky is a motor that originated in Europe. Case took the power of the Cummins with the fuel efficiency of the Ivicky and made a very good motor. Another way Case has beaten John Deere in their track tractors, because case has a 4 track system where as John Deere runs a 2 track system which is a lot like a dozer. The problem with that is that when you turn at the ends it pushes a lot of dirt up from the outside track doing a lot of sliding.

CaseIH or John Deere

Now this subject is very touchy with certain people but I’m going to discuss it anyway. CaseIH vs John Deere. My family has ran red since the farm started in the early 1900’s. I know that there are a lot of farms that are just the opposite. But in my opion there is nothing that john Deere has over case. With cases new tractors they have the suspension ride on the front end, a 15 percent power rise when you start pulling the tractor. In the cab it has the throttle and gears all on one control and finger tip hydraulic controls. Also they have a tighter turning radius. But I will admit in the late 70’s when john Deere came out with the power shift it took case almost 10 years to start doing that. But once they got that figured out there was no turning back. To be continued………

a million dollars

If I had million dollars I would buy a newer truck. Then I would go back to the family farm and invest in it that way when I got out of school I could go back to it and not worry about anything as far money or anything. Then I would take what I had left and put it in the bank and live of the interest for a while. So I think the way I’m going to try and get this million dollars is that I am going to play the lottery all the time. Also if I won this money ii would go out and buy a Harley and buy my dad a Harley and we would travel the country in the summer just because there are lots of things that I would like to do and see before I grow up and get to busy with my life.

Canada

If I could take a vacation to anywhere I think I would go back to Canada. Because it is so fun, I went there with my step dad and a few of his friends about 4 years ago. We drove the whole way up there in a convoy and pulled our boats when we got there we had to load all our supplies on the boat and drive about a mile across water to get to out cabin. Out cabin was a 5 room 15 person cabin and it was crude cabin which made it a lot more fun. Because we had to cook everything over a fire. The cool thing about this cabin was that it was completely solar powered. But we had a lot of fun catching walleye and northern pike. We were there for 5 days it took us a day to get there and a day to get back.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Life

Today or tonight whichever way you want to look at it I have not gone to sleep yet and I don’t think I will because I have a theater appreciation final at seven thirty in the morning which is about an hour and a half from now. I have been procrastinating about doing these blogs all day and night and I finally did one. But I was thinking about my English class for next semester and I really wish you were teaching comp 111 because I really think that you are a really good teacher. Because you are very relaxed and you give us the time to turn in the best paper or material possible. So when you are reading these you should really think about changing your schedule to where you have a comp 111 class so I can get into it. I’m going to go work on some more psychology.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Ibuprofen

Today I really didn’t do a whole lot other than lay around and sleep. I didn’t even go to my eleven O’clock class because lately I have felt horrible. I don’t know what the deal is I have a really bad cough plus I can’t breathe out of my nose and my whole head hurts. I thought about going to the wellness center but then I don’t really know where it is so I didn’t go. When I was growing up at my house it didn’t matter how sick you were you took Ibuprofen, even if you felt like you were dying. I’ve only been to the doctor once in my whole life and that was because I had Poison Ivey and I and it for like three days before I convinced my mom to let me go. So I think I am pretty much immune to Ibuprofen. So moral of the story is Ibuprofen doesn’t fix everything.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Stress to the max

Today I have been working on revising my object essay and I am having a hard time with it because of the ending I know that something is wrong with it. But I just don’t know how to fix it. Plus I think that because of finals coming up I’m stressing out that I have so much to do and get done before the first of next week. Not only do I have to revise to essays I also have to write a cover letter by Tuesday. Then to top things off I have my math final on Monday with I failed the last two test because I have no clue what the teacher is talking about so I have to do some major studying for that. Also on Monday at 7:30 in the morning I have my theater apperception Final which is online so that won’t be too bad. But all in all I’m just really stressed out. And I have to do 15 more of these blogs!

Tale of a Moose

But as they shortly figured out the best way to hunt moose is to cover the most amount of ground in the least about of time. So when they first started with this Idea they were basically running around looking for moose. Then they came up with the idea to drive a boat around and look for one. Finally they found one and they beached the boat about a mile away from the moose. And got out and had to stalk them animal until they were about 250 yards away. The main guy in the story took the first shot with a browning 270 and he hit the animal but it didn’t go down. When the guy’s friend shot he shot a 300 Win Mag which defiantly put the hammer on it. After reading that story I thought it was pretty interesting to how hard a person will go to kill an animal.

Tale of A Moose

Today I was reading an article out of North American Hunter It was about a man who lives in the Northwest Territory in Canada. He owned a fishing lodge where he just recently had decided to add moose hunting to one of the things he would do as a guide. But he had to actually walk his 2000 acres of lake a dense trees to find out where the moose where. Well when he was talking this over with one of the people who works for him and they didn’t really know how to hunt or where to find moose. So when they first just went out and stated calling in a random place and they didn’t see anything for like 3 days, then they tried calling at night thinking that maybe the moose move more at night than during the day. But once again no luck they didn’t see anything. To be continued…………..