A little nippy out and about this morning! Some areas may have toyed with a little frost on the ol' pumpkin!

I spent yesterday at Roscoe at the farm. I drove around each farm doing an assessment, then I went back to the farm shop and began unloading chemical and surfactant from the spray pickup.


A little later we may have to reassess the wheat fallow ground, but at present I think we are in pretty good shape.

The cotton is really popping. In fact one farm probably needs to be defoliated everywhere but the lake bottom. This is the farm that the cotton is very thin and sparse, but it ended up being so beautiful. Big plants with huge bolls the size of your fist. I only hope the added fruit can make up for the sparse plant population.

Now down in that lake bottom, the cotton is think and lush and as tall as my pickup truck! Bolls top to bottom and 99% of them un-opened.

Jason had a friend strip his home place yesterday. I drove by late and was a little disappointed in what it appeared it was going to yield. I guess there is lots of fluff!

I've got to take a minute to vent. Most of our pharmacies have stopped using cotton in their pill bottles as a cost elimination. Excuse me, but I visualize a single bale of cotton and the tech pulling off a small dab between thumb and fore-finger to put in each bottle. That bale would last a long time! I'm sure the cotton in the pill bottles was a minute expense.

And along that expense line, Krl has checked with other pharmacies and found there is a W-I-D-E disparity in pricing. Since we lost our medical insurance this has become a major expense! As much as I despise some of the large chain pharmacies, they may be a life saver!

My weekend looks like this. Roscoe today @ the farm shop and on the farm. Tomorrow I will go to Loop returning Sunday (hopefully).

Have a day and a weekend!

FATHER, bless this day! I pray for relief from this cold I am fighting! YOU are good!