Saturday while I was purchasing that new Chevrolet truck my son in law Jeff Plaspohl was also purchasing one. He chose a new Ford pick up very much like my Chevy. And he also "Double Voted" for America as his new truck also will be able to burn the E85 Ethanol fuel that is now pretty redially available here in Indiana. So two of us will now be driving up to the Family Express E85 pump and saving almost a dollar a gallon as we smile and know we are burning a renewable fuel made right here in America and that a lot fewer of our dollars will be going to the middle east. This will be less dollars for them to purchase guns and explosives to kill us. Can we say "no brainer" here? I think so but why is America such "slow learners"?????
We know that alternative fuels such as ethanol can not replace all our nations energy needs. We just don't have enought land to grow enough grain. Maybe at best we could supply 20% of our nations needs and surely our leaders will soon be pressured to allow oil drilling anywhere there is oil on or off shore in this country. We do have to stop the flow of dollars out of this country..We are bleeding to death doing this process of transferring our wealth for oil and goods and we have to get a grip soon. It is time to stand up to the enviormental extremists who fight oil exploration in this country. We need to encourage them to go to the polar caps and hug polar bears....I don't think there would probably be a more touching sight than and enviromentalist wacko, who has cause havoc on this nation approaching and then trying to hug a polar bear...Gosh getting chocked up just typing this...Don't get me wrong..I am a normal enviromentalist myself...I love no till farming that preserves and builds soil, and the light usage of necessary chemicals to produce abundant crops...Those are good enviromentalist that we do not want hugging polar bears, maybe sweet pea but not a hungry polar bear. But the wacko variety, yes someone needs to sign them up for a free polar bear hugging cruise to upper Greenland or someplace that is very pretty and where polar bears are just plain looking hugable....that would be sweet.....
A corn making rain moved through during the night dropping a little over an inch of good rain on those corn stalks out there that are having all that fun polinating.
I forgot to mention that those silks that grow from the point they are affixed to the corn cob keep growing out the end of the ear until such time that the polen arrives to the point of attachment. So these polen spores from the tassle have quite a voyage not only the length of the ear where they first fall on the silks, but also the growth that is going on. God took care of all that as some years there are countless beatles that eat the silks as fast as they emmerge out the ear. So by continuing to grow the silks are constantly exposed to the falling polen until one gets in there and starts the trip to the point of attachment where the kernal of corn will then be formed...But this year which seems to be almost perfect in our area so far there is not a lot of bugs yet present so the silks are long and beautiful and will catch the polen very easily.
The Tippecanoe county fair started this week, took sweet pea there last night to view some grand kids pigs and split and eat a fried elaphants ear and a lemon shakeup, who said two can not live a cheaply as one? We dared ride the ferris wheel at the carnaval...Lucky for me these rides that are "mobile" don't have the time to construct one of those death defying rollor coasters...Otherwise that would have been her ride of choice....Last time that happened to me was about 1954 maybe at Lake Ponchatrain amusement park in New Orleans...They had a really big painted white wooden coaster...Bob Cornell and I could not wait to get on that ride...I can remember it as yesterday the first big hill and we dropped what felt like straight down for what seemed like a half mile but maybe 90 feet. and then all the turns and a couple more plunges and finally we rolled to the point of beginning my hand still some how welded to the bar that I was glued to...The attendant smiled at the whole train load of us and said, "anyone that wants to ride again can ride free"..We all got off...Well gosh that was 54 years ago maybe I am ready to tackle that again, I said last night I thought I was. It probably is safer than sky diving, another feat on her "bucket list"....For that one I will be the camera man for sure...Have a great day out there....
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