Arrived AZ

[clayton58]

weedman, where do you stay in AZ?  I have family in the Phoenix area, and used to be some relatives near Camp Verde.  Also a neighbor with family farming out near Yuma.  Oh, the stories he could tell!  SW, sounds like we should host an "A.com market forum in SW KS. 

[ECIN]

Hey - Hey - Hey Weedman ! What's this ? Talk about giving credit where credit isn't due!  ?????????????

Indian giver!  LOL 

Oh come Smokey -  Them SW KS farmers have it made out there- Just raking in the dough - Yes i will agree  they work hard out there -  counting money all day - them BIG rolls ( of money ) would be hard to carry around all day long - and pushing the buttons on the water- er - 

BTW Don't tell SW - But just having alittle fun pulling on his chain alittle - lol

[smokeyjay]

Okay, enjoy the humor in your posts......  BTW, I have to work a little harder than SW.  I have no irrigated ground.  Sometimes we get our entire annual rainfall in one week.  Kinda difficult  surviving the other 51 weeks sometimes.

[Wind]

Enjoying the "banter" here this morning.  Weedman, it's -3* this morning here in central IA with a wind-chill of -24*!!!  2 to 3 inches of fluffy snow on the ground.  It appears the soil here will freeze deeper this Winter than than the past few Winters and that should  be good.

About three years ago, my wife and I after visiting relatives in Gove Co. we drove SW to the Grand Canyon in AZ.  It was one of the most enjoyable trips I ever took.  We drove through Garden City KS then drove South and remember eating lunch at a Chinese buffet in SW Kansas near the border.  sw, help me out here, was that buffet in Liberal or was it in Wilburton?  Anyway very good food.  We then drove through the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, flat ground.  Very nice trip, the weather was sunny and warm most days.

As far as farming in SW K, you almost have to be born there to stay and make it work!  I think if I moved there to live, I would have to have a center pivot passing over my house!!  That brown crunchy grass in the dead of Summer  would be hard to get use to.

Keep cold down there.

Wind 

[weedman]

We stay in Apache Junction. For those who don't know AJ is kind of out on the east side of the valley. We're 33 miles from Sky Harbor airport. We ended up here because my wifes parents came here and we visited once and I was hooked. Been coming since Jan 2003 and every year since. Staying 3 to 31/2 months the last 4 years or so.

[sw363535]

Either Liberal or Guymon Okla,  Wind

Wilburton, Ks hasn't had a business in it since the 1930's or even 1920's when the population was at its highest in the area.

The dust bowl folks would have cried it they knew what was to come in the 1940's-1960's ---------- sitting on a huge gas field and decent water in many areas.

Tough place with good folks.

[JCCWIS]

Weedman: Had an old Landlord who overwintered in AP...Always came back to God's Country [ Nort. Cent. Wis. ] every summer. Then one year somebody talked him into staying there year around......talked to him once that Summer...said they were living in one air-conditioned room. Never saw him again ......died later that Summer.!!!! Soooooo have fun the next 3 mo. , then get the 'H' out of there !!!   lol   John

[weedman]

You're right. My dream is to be able to spend 5 months, but always head back to God's country (WC SW IA) or anywhere in the midwest for that matter. Someday when I don't have to help plant or harvest.

[ECIN]

JCC - my friend - just shaken my head here - and lets add a EYE roll ! Here weedy is on vacation - haven fun - putting on -- trophy oil -- to look like a lobster - and what did you post up ? Croaking ?   Come on man !

Weedy don't pay NO never mind to JCC -- lol    I will give him  a call tomorrow and straight him out - LOL

[weedman]

ECIN I'm starting to worry about you. You sound like you might be going a little stircrazy all this going from 74 to 24 and back. You might want to think about heading to Florida or Texas for a little R&R. Try some Trophy Oil. Don't be so hard on JCC he's probably been going from 74 to -24 and back.