After 2 days of temps near 80F, and southwest winds today of about 25mph, abruptly about 5pm the wind turned out of the northwest and within 15 minutes the temp had dropped 20 degrees, it now sits at 44F. I was relieved to see this evening that the week of warm weather has brought my wheat up, I had been concerned it was too dry to even sprout it.
I attended the bull sale I purchase bulls at Saturday, this would mark the 20th anniversary of my buying bulls at this sale. After reading what the bulls brought at Perth I am a little ashamed to say what I paid, a mere $3500 for an 18 month old Angus bull. I paid $5000 last year for a half brother to this bull. The bull will be delivered tomorrow and put with fall calving cows immediately.
My wife had gone to bed early, as usual, and I was looking forward to watching something I liked on TV. This was short lived as my fire pager went off about 9:30, calling us not to a fire but to a house in town where a 50 foot tall ham radio tower was about to blow over onto the house, a little out of our expertise but we dealt with it. After discussion amongst those of us who answered the alarm(a farmer, an oilman, a truck driver, 2 workers at our local valve factory and a newspaperman) we determined, I thought, that we should go ahead and try to pull it down hopefully without bringing it down on any houses. I was sent to seek the wisdom and supervision of an 83 year old man who is the town expert on things like this, I had to report over the radio I was getting him out of bed, one of my cohorts replied to make sure he put some clothes on. By the time I returned a group decision had been made not to pull it down but to try to stabilize it, stand it back up and put new bolts in it, which we did. Made for an interesting evening, but a bit chilly.