I was reading that there was a study done about animals detecting the earth’s magnetic field. The study showed that cows and deer tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction. The scientists say they are surprised that hunters and herdsmen and farmers didn’t notice it. Who says farmers didn’t notice it? Did they ask any farmers? Maybe farmers noticed it but were too busy farming to care about something like that and get all excited about it and report it to a scientific community. I mean really, why would a farmer even think that anyone would care about something like that? Big whoop!
I was sad to hear about the school shooting in Tennesse earlier today. Too often do I hear news like this nowadays. Most of the time the shootings seem to be random shootings, but this time it seemed like a personal grudge between two specific students. Sadly the victim has died, but the perpetrator was arrested and has been charged with first degree murder. I just can’t understand school kids getting so wound up that they start shooting each other! What is wrong with this world? How can we ever expect to have world peace when we can’t even have peace in our own neighborhoods? Seems to me that the only “safe” school nowadays is to home-school your kids, which is really a shame.
I was hearing on the news (and reading on the Internet) a story about how a couple of guys in Georgia have claimed to find a Bigfoot, and that they have the corpse in their freezer. Now I think that is just a hoax, Bigfoot has never been sighted that far south, and the so-called corpse looks like a cheap gorilla costume! I will be interested to see how this story pans out! I wonder if there will be any kind of prosecution if it IS determined to be a hoax? I hope so, these kinds of things need to be nipped in the bud!
Well, this weekend I will be busy harvesting corn most of the time. It’s a really good crop this year! I’ve been harvesting a little bit and taking it to the Farmer’s Market over the past couple of weeks, and the customers have bought every ear I’ve taken to the market! They love that super sweet corn that I grow! I can’t blame them, I love it too! This is a great corn that you don’t have to rush to the table as soon as you pick it – it gets sweeter after a day or two so you can buy it today and eat it tomorrow and it tastes even better. I think that is why it is so popular, it is hard for people to get regular corn to the table fast enough to really enjoy it.
Well yesterday was a little more work than I had planned on. Some drunk lost control of his truck and ran off the road and through one of my fences. Some of the cattle escaped the pasture. So I had to spend several hours rounding up the escapees and moving them to a different pasture while I mended the broken fence. This happens from time to time, so I always have the materials on hand to mend the fences, but it is always an aggravation when it happens. I wish all cars and trucks had a meter in them that tested the breath of the driver and if they register as having too much alcohol in them the vehicle wouldn’t start. It was a drunk driver that caused the accident that killed my parents, so I don’t have a lot of patience or empathy for any of them.
Computers/Internet, General living, News | Todd | 
August 27, 2008 9:00 am | 
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