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KEH

04-01-2007 14:25:25




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Walked in the Charleston, SC bridge walk Saturday. It's 6.2 miles including up and down a 160 foot high bridge. Mrs. KEH, another lady and I were averaging about 20 minutes per mile. Not bad for people in their late 60's. On the drive down Friday a lot of farmers were planting corn. Some of it was no till, some normal tillage, some appeared to be a mixture. Some corn was up about 2 inches high. There were a number of center pivots along the way. Dont know if they use wells or pump from swamps or ponds, maybe both.
The Low Country of SC is mostly a coastal plain that was once under the ocean. Much of it is as flat as Allan in NE's farm. but you can't see very far because there are trees along a swamp or stream or in a pine plantation. Some areas of pine trees were or had been controlled burned to kill the underbrush, small trees, and insects that attack big trees.
The big new tractors I saw in the fields were all green. I know there is a red dealer not too far to the North of where I was. Went by one blue dealer on the way. Looks like the boys are going to plant as much corn as possible. Some cotton fields along the way that had not been plowed. Not time to plant cotton, its very sensitive to cool weather.
Some small grain about a foot high. Needs rain. Getting light rain here in western SC now.

KEH

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John M

04-01-2007 14:47:24




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 Re: corn up in reply to KEH , 04-01-2007 14:25:25  
Did you stay long enough to see the bridge at night? Quite spectacular! Ill be down in June.



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KEH

04-01-2007 15:57:54




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 Re: corn up in reply to John M, 04-01-2007 14:47:24  

Didn't stay for a night view, don't think I've seen it at night. Weather should be nice and hot and humid by June, with mosquitos out.

KEH



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John M

04-01-2007 16:57:51




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 Re: corn up in reply to KEH , 04-01-2007 15:57:54  
Its accually not bad at all. Although I will admit that it seems to get hotter each year we go down. You really should make an effort to see it at night, and if possible go down, if even just for the evening, on the 4th of July and go out to the Yorktown and watch the fireworks from there on the bridge. Last year, they opened up the Yorktown just for this night until about 9:30 and then they had their own fireworks off of the Yorktown, which they do every year.

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Coloken

04-01-2007 14:41:11




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 Re: corn up in reply to KEH , 04-01-2007 14:25:25  
Center pivots? irigation in SC? What a suprise.

BTW: My moma was a Charleston lady and a Colorado homesteader. I inherited some of the accent. Dad left the navy there in 1910. I was there in 1936--heard the battery do gun practice.



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