KSQ2
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What school do you teach at again? I was trying remember Friday night. I was talking to a parent from Erie at the ballgame, they went to 4 day school weeks and I was going to bring up your school.
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The Massey
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catscratch
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Central of Burden. The 4 day week is amazing! Saves a lot of money through transportation (very rural district so lots busing), and utilities. Also cuts down on kids missing class due to sports. Lots of competitions are on Fridays so if you have built in made up your class time M-T then noone is missing to travel on Fridays. Test scores initially stayed about the same, but have steadily climbed since. Of course that depends on classes too. Academics are a lot like sports in that sometimes you have a bunch of talent, and sometimes you don't.
catscratch
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We got just over an inch yesterday. Actually saw some run-off in the ditches. How'd you guys do?
KSQ2
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We were setting at 2.5 yesterday morning and got quite a bit more through the day. We were in Burlington last night for substate basketball, our oldest played her last game.
They had the same record and Burlington got home court with a coin flip, I’m convinced our girls would have won at home, but oh well. Anywho, they got a BUNCH of rain up that way. I haven’t called the neighbor yet to see what we ended up with. The ground was still pretty wet from the snow, so we should have gotten quite a bit of runoff too. Hoping it brought up the in-law’s low ponds significantly.
KSQ2
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Going to pick up a new to us New Holland swather/conditioner tomorrow. An ag lime pile has been awaiting the spreader for a week now in the edge of our barnyard. This rain will put that off a while longer, but I’m not complaining. We were going to plant spring oats, and then terminate them to drill the alfalfa into in April; but we’ve missed the window for that. But that should be okay; except I have 500 lbs of oats setting at the coop, that I’m hoping someone will buy. 
catscratch
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Congrats on the rain! I'm glad you guys got it.
Sorry about the daughters loss! Those are tough times, especially for a senior's last game. But, she has Volleyball to look forward to next year if I remember correctly. She's not interested in college Basketball?
Sorry about the daughters loss! Those are tough times, especially for a senior's last game. But, she has Volleyball to look forward to next year if I remember correctly. She's not interested in college Basketball?
KSQ2
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No, she had/has some opportunity to play some small time college volleyball, but nothing like full ride type of thing. She's not wanting to pursue it. She and her little sis will be running track I believe.
catscratch
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Track is better anyway! (joking)
My oldest had several scholarship opportunities but just wanted to go to school and work. I think the youngest will want to play no matter what, but we'll have to wait and see.
My oldest had several scholarship opportunities but just wanted to go to school and work. I think the youngest will want to play no matter what, but we'll have to wait and see.
KSQ2
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Tree planting day with our Blue Hill trees. I’ve gotta say, you guys who plant these a dozen plus at a time have my admiration! Usually Dawna helps, but I was solo today. Here’s a few pics.
I can’t tell you how nice it was to not have to struggle to get the holes dug in dry dirt. I even had an easy place to get a couple refills off the edge of the soon-to-be alfalfa field. It’s been a LONG time since we’ve had a watering hole at the Massey!
I can’t tell you how nice it was to not have to struggle to get the holes dug in dry dirt. I even had an easy place to get a couple refills off the edge of the soon-to-be alfalfa field. It’s been a LONG time since we’ve had a watering hole at the Massey!
catscratch
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The rain is NICE! Glad you had some easy digging.
The boys lost in the championship game last night. Kind of bites, but they were a better team.
The boys lost in the championship game last night. Kind of bites, but they were a better team.
KSQ2
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Yeah, Caney boys lost last night to Burlington, and they should have won. Burlington handled the pressure of the moment much better.
g squared 23
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Without any help it takes me right at 45 minutes per fruit tree. Getting help especially with the weed mats can cut that in half. Yours look great.
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KSQ2
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Thank you! That’s almost exactly how much time it took me when I divide it by 4. We had a basketball game to get to, so that had me watching the clock pretty close. I zip tied the cages to the t posts, so I can remove them quickly, if it gets dry again and I need to weed eat and apply mulch the MarkDavin way.
KSQ2
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For the first time in years, I’m hoping the rain continues to hold off for a while. I’m impatiently waiting for our local coop to get lime spread on the ten acres we will be putting to alfalfa. They are slammed right now trying to get farmers ready for corn planting, and small timers like us get bumped to the bottom of the list. We have about a 3 week window in April to get the alfalfa in, I’m not going to spread fertilizer and work ground until the lime is down; it is sitting on the field edge waiting. If we miss the window, we’ll plan on planting this fall; because of the ongoing drought, alfalfa planting in the fall has been a risky venture the last few years.
KSQ2
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I had a little time this evening so I ran over to the Massey for one last walk.
Unfortunately, I found the barbed wire buck, it appears the wire and the stress of the rut eventually did him in.
I also picked up one side off the Old 6. I’m almost certain this is his, if so, he went downhill quite a bit from last year.
Unfortunately, I found the barbed wire buck, it appears the wire and the stress of the rut eventually did him in.
I also picked up one side off the Old 6. I’m almost certain this is his, if so, he went downhill quite a bit from last year.
Kurt
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Glad to hear eastern KS is doing better on moisture. The Hays area is still very dry. The river actually quit flowing last Oct. Most of the pot holes dried up and all the fish died by Dec. Over the last 3 months the spring activity in the area has filled up the majority of the holes but still not flowing. Hoping for spring moisture but its looking tough.
KSQ2
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As good as everything is looking around here, we’re still not out of the woods. Hoping you get some real relief out there soon. Habitat projects in western Kansas would be a tough venture; but the big buck hunting is AWESOME.
KSQ2
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Well, today I undertook quite the experiment. I was on the phone with the rootmaker guy making sure I was putting the 3 gallon pots together right, and in the process of talking to him, my plans changed completely. His recommendation was taking the seedlings I got from wildlife group and trim the rootball to fit my 1 gallon pots, then transplant them to the 3 gallons when needed. He said pulling bareroot trees out of the ground already has them shocked and trimming the rootball with 90 degree clean cuts will not hurt them any further. I took his advice even though it was really having me wonder as I trimmed roots. I guess that if it’s a failure, it only cost about $38 worth of trees, and that was shipped. We’ll see I guess. Oh yeah, they were chestnut and persimmon seedlings. I’ve had a hard time getting either to survive a direct planting at the Massey in the past.
I did spot a big callery pear on the backside of our home place. I’m planning to put both kieffer and moonglow grafts on it in a few weeks.
I did spot a big callery pear on the backside of our home place. I’m planning to put both kieffer and moonglow grafts on it in a few weeks.
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