Yes I am back, after a month’s absence. Sometimes family and life’s challenges take priority and must be attended to first and other items take a back seat.
It is harvest time, boy is it harvest time, and I’m pleased to report for some of the farm folks the crop yields have been above average. Really remarkable given the 2025 weather and what I refer to as “seasonal offsets”. Not a fancy weather-office term, just a simple observation of seasons not occurring in the months they usually do. It’s a big thing for farmers and ranchers who operate on “windows of opportunity” for seasonal activities like seeding, crop husbandry and harvest. Many are the farms folks who seeded at a conventional time and had the seed fail to germinate due to the soil not warming up as expected and they had to re-seed, which then pushes that crop back in the harvest window.
Sadly we have had several very nasty thunderstorms come through and cause considerable damage to property, machinery, grain bins and of course destroyed the crop. In typical farmer practical logic one such affected commented “Well don’t need the grain bins anyway seeing as the crop is destroyed!”
Mother Nature is fickle and good farming weather is parceled out in a manner peculiar only according to her and fairness has nothing to do with it.
There is a lot of discussion and wonderment in the news lately about the earthquakes and storms of mini-earthquakes in Yellowstone’s super volcano. Should events see that volcano erupt we will not need to worry at all about “seasonal offset” impacting agriculture as there will not be any agriculture at all.
My book Sanctuary which discusses events leading up to the eruption and the following consequences will be Free on September 13th & 14th, 2025. Check it out if you have the nerve. Let’s hope this remains a work of fiction!!
I observe humanity too often as “ostriches with their heads in the sand”. True it is not complementary, but then fear and refusal to change or even consider new facts are not complementary either. Never more an issue than when it comes to space exploration and the potential for other life forms. Read the news on Oumuamua and 3I/Atlas opinions of a hostile alien threat. Then read some of the excellent Sci-Fi books at Signal Received to broaden your horizons.
This is a collection of short stories I penned in the spaces between larger eBook efforts. Most often these “brain flares” occur in the middle of the night, hence “Nocturnal Emissions”. Time passes and ideas come and go, soon there is a collection of the “in between short stories”. Some might be expanded on to become an ebook of their own and many remain just as they were conceived. As delightful and tasty entrée fabrications of imagination. Some have a beginning and end some don’t as they are just captured in a lightening flash. All of the stories are fiction, yet most have actual truths and or personal experiences in them at some point. I will let you sort out what you think is fact, fiction, fantasy and personal experience. Read and enjoy!
Patience is a virtue and this year’s harvest will be a test insomuch as it will be a protracted harvest. Farmers waiting anxiously for late crops to ripen, while hoping the harvest window will remain open long enough for them to get what they can.
Stay calm and stay safe!!
Martin E. Silenus