This bumblebee likes to stay perched on the tassel bags. This is day 2 (but a different tassel) We’ll have to see which one he likes tomorrow because when he did a brief fly off, I made the cross.

Holy rain! After the latest heavy rainfall, we are now over 5" above normal for July. The South Skunk River sits at 17' this morning (action stage is 19'). On the year, we have nearly topped 30" (avg. for the entire year is 36" 😳)

The pollen did not shed for me until noon. And even then the bags were damp-ish for all the pollinations I had to make And the highs heat up the next 2 days with 100F+ heat index … Let’s just say I am not a fan. Hopefully tomorrow goes smooth with earlier pollen shed 🤞

🤨🧐🙃 What are your thoughts on it being called ‘corn sweat’? apple.news/Ap0dj97LBQo6Ve…

It’s pre-7 AM Already gross out And my shoes are squishy Gonna be a rough one for the 400 mass pollinations and 100+selfs to make (plus setting up however I can for tomorrow)

Shootbagging is a (field based) example of gaslighting Ending the day convinced you covered every single shoot in a project, only to come in the next morning and find 100s or 1,000s more needing to be covered No… I did it all yesterday…. I know it 🤨😞😅

I know I’m not supposed to be mad about rain… but I could use a break from it this growing season

Please no 😭

You've been asking & here's your answer! This was the 2nd wettest July Ames has seen on record. Only to be topped by the flooding rains of 1993, when the Iowa State Center was mostly underwater. We have almost completed our entire year's worth of rainfall in just 7 months 🤯

…. ……. #PolkaSunday ! In the corn field 🎶🎶🎶 🪗🪗🪗 🎶🎶🎶 🌽🌽🌽

‘Past Lisa’ trying to make current Lisa chuckle over a video that is meant to ‘document an event’ (usually in the cornfield) to change some field records / my internal ‘policy’ etc (Starts watching video some weeks/months later & hears ‘Past Lisa’ say….) “Captains log…” 🤣

I have absolutely no words to describe how bad some untreated corn fields are right now. #ISUCrops

Don’t wait too long… Going through another round of checking videos & scrap notes to consolidate notes of the season about -nicking for diff hybrid pairs … which male or female to change delay planting -what notes of ‘you should’ve done this’ for field design or planting

Note to self: When you have a not so, secret, secret supply of materials, hiding in plain sight, maybe don’t leave them for years on end in a plastic trash bag😅

Hello, darkness, my old friend… (Black layer)

Did you know you can use slow motion video to try and see where the problem is occurring on moving parts? Ring light + sheller + slow motion video to rule out one possible rubbing connection point

Not me making a screencap video just now Into the mic ‘I thought I was going to remember how to do this, so I didn’t make a video this summer’ …. Dear Reader, she did *not* how remember to efficiently do the file work from the summer … and so she now does have a video 🙄

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Some people (I’d wager mostly office based) don’t seem to understand that not all of us use outlook as our email app… so those ‘tapbacks’ to acknowledge an email is essentially ‘lost information’ to those not on the outlook train

Thanks, ‘4 days ago Lisa’, I already used the video you made of the task I already forgot how to do 😳🤣

Waiting for an email response to resolve a high-priority red tape issue is as good a time as any to distract myself by going to pick a ‘quick’ 700 ears this afternoon to help wrap up harvesting one projects pollinated ears … not too many left of the seasons ~9,000 ears.