Horrible night last night. Muscle cramps. I even got up and drank a pint of pickle juice, which usually relieves the cramps, but it had not effect last night. I think I slept mostly standing or leaning against the door facing!

I didn't realize how tired and dehydrated I had become. The heat sure saps me! I think I lack about forty acres completing the cotton spraying. I would have finished it but we decided to cover the wheat fallow ground as well. There isn't that much wheat ground, but it is pretty rough terrain.

I think when I get through there Monday we will probably spray all the remaining wheat ground. That shouldn't take past Tuesday, especially if I can get some help hauling water.

That has been my biggest problem. Spray, then jump in the pickup and haul water, spray, get in the pickup and haul water. The process repeats itself over and over again. At one point yesterday I was sitting third in line to fill the nurse tank.

Probably my biggest complaint of the Spray Coupe is I would love to have more water capacity. I would like to fill in a thousand gallons and then run three and a half hours and do it again. Instead I am filling 400 gallons and running an hour and twenty minutes, or sometimes less. But, I will admit that the smaller load has allowed me to run across some wet ground that probably wouldn't have held up an additional four or five thousand pounds. A combination of trade offs and compromises.

The more I run the spray coupe the more I learn. Sometimes a little restraint and slowing down, actually speeds you up.

I think I prefer the Auto Farm GPS guidance to the Outback, even though I have about learned them both. I think I would like to design my own. It would look like Pac Man, eating up those acres!

The most difficult thing about the guidance system is making your turns and having the system lock on line. I look at some of my turns from the first applications and I have to laugh.

Practice makes perfect!

I do have about thirty acres at Wastella to go back and spray, it was just too wet and the wind wasn't cooperative. Our neighbor has milo planted next to us and it wouldn't tolerate Roundup very well.

Next up should be dragging through the cotton with a cultivator. But, no rush right now!

I met Pat at her garden yesterday to try to pick some black eyed peas for our friend Becky Lucas Russell. Pat picked over it and I went back over it, but it just needs a few more days. Pat finally put together a "sampler" a little of this and a little of that, but not much of any one item.

This week Pat is going to have garden running out her ears!

I dropped the garden harvest off at Becky's brother's home and got to see Becky, Jim, Laquita, and Guy and his wife. I wish I had had more time. It was good to visit, but I realized how long it would take to "catch up"!

Truck billing and payroll today.

I so need to recharge.

Hope your weekend is a good one!

FATHER, rest and renew me. Bless our efforts. I continue to lift Rebecca for YOUR gifts of healing and care. To YOU be the glory!