Ross
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O.K. buddy what's going on with you? You haven't been around as much lately and that's not like you. Everything alright? Your starting to worry me and you know how I get when I'm like that.
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ccrawford
Hey Rossy - you don't miss a trick do you old buddy. I had some blood work and an echo on Monday, and waiting for my cardio to call tonight with the results. I have no idea at present what the results will be, but will give a holler when I know. As to my absence - Fall is always a busy time here. I've been getting the combine back in shape so it can harvest my corn crop. Today I built a bridge over a creek behind my workshop - Its a modest bridge - about 10 ' by 16' but it will be handy to access that part of my woods on the south side. I may make a covered bridge out of it so it will last longer and look prettier - love to build that stuff, and its good exercise too. Bet I'll sleep like a baby tonite. Thanks for worrying, Ross-your the best mother hen I ever saw !!! 
Ross
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Well of course I am, I had a good teacher!
I just wanted to make sure you weren't slipping out on us with something that you didn't want to talk about. Glad to know your fine, er, I mean o.k.
hey chris!
please let us know how that echo comes out, ok?
sounds like you are good and busy and feeling well..
stay that way!
-sylvia
please let us know how that echo comes out, ok?
sounds like you are good and busy and feeling well..
stay that way!
-sylvia
fyrfytr
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Hey Chris,
Sounds like you are doing very good. Keep us posted when you find out anything.
Take Care
Dave
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Sounds like you are doing very good. Keep us posted when you find out anything.
Take Care
Dave
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Simon Gee
corn crop
corn crop
Hi Chris,
please indulge my curiosity! Coming from England, we only grow corn (called maize here) for silage, not for the grain. Is October the normal time for harvest in Indiana? All the combinable crops here in the UK are finished by early September. Don't you get problems with wet weather?
Looking forward to learning something new!
Simon
corn crop
Hi Chris,
please indulge my curiosity! Coming from England, we only grow corn (called maize here) for silage, not for the grain. Is October the normal time for harvest in Indiana? All the combinable crops here in the UK are finished by early September. Don't you get problems with wet weather?
Looking forward to learning something new!
Simon
hensylee
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Simon, I grew up my first 10 yrs on a farm in the southern USA. I recall that early tender corn was pulled, prepared in several ways and used for table food, then the last crop of the year for harvest on the farm was the corn once it was dry on the stalk. Stored for animal feed and some was ground for corn meal for making corn bread.
I remember my mother cutting the corn off the cob, preparing it and canning, we also ate 'corn on the cob'. I hated eating corn then and I don't like it yet. That was many, many moons ago - long time to hate corn.
Guess Chris will give you a grown up farmer's perspective.
I remember my mother cutting the corn off the cob, preparing it and canning, we also ate 'corn on the cob'. I hated eating corn then and I don't like it yet. That was many, many moons ago - long time to hate corn.
Guess Chris will give you a grown up farmer's perspective.
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ccrawford
For the record, I'm really not a farmer. We bought the place to groom as a quail hunting preserve. Quail need the residual grain from crops to survive, and I couldn't find anyone to farm it, so I started farming. Field corn typically has a maturity of between 90 and 120 days. This year it was really wet in Indiana in May and most of us didn't plant until June. Corn needs to have a moisture rate of less than 13% or the price gets docked-the same for soybeans. This means some of us will be running combines in October and November. Field corn is used for a multitude of things in the US including a range of food products (corn chips, corn meal, grits, etc.), a source of sugar, and even ethenol to add to your gasoline. Both field corn and sweet corn have been extensively hybridized over the years, but the basic difference is that sweet corn is much more tender and has a much higher sugar content. Sweet corn is picked while it is still very green with a high moisture content-then rushed to a boiling pot to yield the best tasting stuff you've ever had. Still no word from cardio, so I'm assuming as is well. Chris
Sherry
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Hello, Chris,
Hope all is well with your bloodwork. Wanted to let you know that I met some of your "people" a few weeks ago. Took me on a tour of the house: WOW! Take care and let us know how you're doing; oh, and be careful with that bridge building
Hope all is well with your bloodwork. Wanted to let you know that I met some of your "people" a few weeks ago. Took me on a tour of the house: WOW! Take care and let us know how you're doing; oh, and be careful with that bridge building
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ccrawford
Hey- thanks guys for all the concern. I just heard from my cardio and its pretty much all good news. The Echo came back perfect with no apparent problems, no leaks, ect, and all the other valves look ok. The ejection fraction has improved to 60%. All my blood work seems to be ok with the exception of my lipid profile. Will have to play musical chairs with cholesterol medications again and see what happens. some of us have very stubborn lipid profiles !!! Went to an Amish wedding this morning but had to leave after two hours of sitting on a wooden bench- my legs were starting to go to sleep. I think they must go through the old testament three times before they consider the marriage ceremony to be complete !We have many Amish friends, but I think I'll be sick the next time a wedding happens. I see my dissertation on corn bored everyone- Stay tuned for more aMaizing stories !! Chris
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Karlynn
Chris,
Glad to hear your tests came out fine. Looks like you'll be joining the Statin Club for those who are over achievers in cholesterol. I'm a member. It did wonders for my numbers.
Corn stories never bore a girl that grew up in farm country with many family members who were farmers.
Karlynn
Glad to hear your tests came out fine. Looks like you'll be joining the Statin Club for those who are over achievers in cholesterol. I'm a member. It did wonders for my numbers.
Corn stories never bore a girl that grew up in farm country with many family members who were farmers.
Karlynn
hi chris!
so glad that your echo showed that all is well inside and that your bloods are ok, besides the lipid end of it.
hope you can treat this soon and get it under control.
thanks for letting us know.
stay well,
sylvia
so glad that your echo showed that all is well inside and that your bloods are ok, besides the lipid end of it.
hope you can treat this soon and get it under control.
thanks for letting us know.
stay well,
sylvia
Nancy
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Hi Chris-
Congratulations on a very good report! Sounds like things are all pretty good. Always nice to hear good news.
Congratulations on a very good report! Sounds like things are all pretty good. Always nice to hear good news.
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Simon Gee
not bored, just busy
not bored, just busy
Hi Chris,
delighted to hear that your latest set of reports look good, notwithstanding the lipids!
Your corn report was certainly not boring, I just don't get much of a chance at weekends to log on to my home computer as we have three young sons and weekends run at a far more hectic pace than the week!!
As I said in my last post, corn is only grown here on a farm scale for silage. Combinable crops grown in the UK are wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, nad some pulses - peas, beans, lupins etc. It was a really good growing season here in England, with most farmers getting all their harvesting finished in August. Many of the wheat and barley crops are drilled in the autumn and next year's are already well established, their green shoots brightening up an otherwise brown landscape as we enjoy a prolonged and dry 'Indian summer'. Those crops that are planted in the spring got in really early this year and the use of grain dryers, to bring moisture levels down well below 20%, were unneccessary on many farms for the first time in years. An unusual year!
OK, that's it for the UK farming news, so it's back to the studio........
Simon
not bored, just busy
Hi Chris,
delighted to hear that your latest set of reports look good, notwithstanding the lipids!
Your corn report was certainly not boring, I just don't get much of a chance at weekends to log on to my home computer as we have three young sons and weekends run at a far more hectic pace than the week!!
As I said in my last post, corn is only grown here on a farm scale for silage. Combinable crops grown in the UK are wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, nad some pulses - peas, beans, lupins etc. It was a really good growing season here in England, with most farmers getting all their harvesting finished in August. Many of the wheat and barley crops are drilled in the autumn and next year's are already well established, their green shoots brightening up an otherwise brown landscape as we enjoy a prolonged and dry 'Indian summer'. Those crops that are planted in the spring got in really early this year and the use of grain dryers, to bring moisture levels down well below 20%, were unneccessary on many farms for the first time in years. An unusual year!
OK, that's it for the UK farming news, so it's back to the studio........
Simon
Ross
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Your corn report doesn't bore me, I'm checking it for accuracy.
hensylee
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I found it interesting. We don't get to hear this sort of information anywhere else, but from a real Englander. Thanks for sharing with us. I love to hear how it's done somewhere else. Adds to one's education, you know.
