Checking Out the Field

Forry trying to figure out what kind of grass?

Yesterday morning we walked through and drove around much of the ground that is coming out of its ten years in CRP this year. It is pretty nice to see what a variety of grasses, sagebrush, rabbit brush and yarrow there is.

There are different criteria for how you want to "bid" your acreage into the program. Each has different numbers of grass species as well as the addition of shrubs or forbs. I guess when they want to verify numbers they either put down a certain size square (say 10 foot by 10 foot) and count every plant within it. Or another way they put out a hundred foot line and count what ever is along it.

Today was definitely a "down" day. After getting in about midnight last night, we slept in this morning. I had a two hour conference call with the Racial Healing Task Force at noon. I've thrown a few loads of clothes into the washer/dryer, but haven't done too much else, besides take a nap and read for a while. I've got a couple of the new red potatoes from Daughter Dawn's garden in the oven and some thin pork cutlets simmering on the stove. After a day of overcast skies, the sun is shining and all is well with my world.