Wow, it is so harvest time!
Some of the senior farmers and ranchers can tell you right down to the hour as to when the season switched from summer to fall. They will tell you something like, “I went to the house to have a cup of coffee and a piece of pie with the Missus on Thursday afternoon this week past and that was 3:15pm as I had been talking on the cell phone while walking across the yard and when I hung up I checked the time. When I came back outside at 4:00pm it was fall, the seasons changed just like that!”
To those unfamiliar with seasonal change you might be given to believe that is an exaggeration. But it’s not, when you are outside in the weather most all of the year every day you can feel and predict the weather far better than any weather forecaster or computer artificial intelligence simulation system. You know instantly when the barometric pressure changes, the air quality shifts, the temperatures day/night move down the thermometer, the light looks different and the air smells different. To those used to feeling the weather every day seasonal change is that clear.
Let me encourage the small percentage of farmers and ranchers that feed us all in North America to please be extra careful during harvest. Especially so around combines, grain augers, grain bins. These devices are extraordinarily dangerous and claim far too many folks every year. And we need every farmer/rancher we have and more to make food for us all.
This month I am offering D.A.R.I.A. BOOK SIX free on September 17th and 18th. It’s science fiction adventure with a sentient artificial intelligent entity as the central protagonist. I hope you realize it is really not so far in the future. Anyway do check it out, enjoy and tell your friends.
While out and about browsing for a tasty book to read do stop by Space Race and have a look about to see what might tickle your fancy.
Upsetting as it may be to some folks the reaches of space and intergalactic travel are in fact BEYOND KNOWN.
Please do stop by SFF book bonanza to browse excellent quality sci-fi books.
Of course if a more earthy firefight is more your style then collect your gear and your “bug-out” bag and visit SEPTEMBER ACTION.
Anyway farmers have a fine harvest and remember the safety rules which are explicit and absolute:
Stay away from a running combine, particularly ones without the safety panels in place, unless you are in the cab.
Stay out of the grain bin or you will get buried alive.
Stay away from the open grain auger when it is running as it can eat hands, feet, arms, legs and kill you in a second.
Stay out of the belly dump semi-trailer as you will slide into the running auger. Work smart, work safe and protect the children.
Best
Martin E. Silenus