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Where else but in farm country do you see large farming equipment running down a state highway?

The dust in the fields, from plowing and seeding is starting to fade. As most fields have already been marked and the irrigation water is flowing. Sweet corn is BIG business around here.

Those sounds and smells associated with summer are everywhere.

The scent of Russian Olive trees, while creating unwanted allergies for some -
is for me, one of the sweetest scents of the summer.

When waking up in the morning doesn’t start with an annoying voice on the radio alarm clock,
but the whoosh - whoosh - ssssspray of the rain birds hitting the lawn at exactly 5 am.

That whirring sound of Swamp coolers is starting to pick up too. Out here in the west, it’s pretty dry. So most of us don’t have AC units, we call them “swamp coolers”, using water pumps to add a little moisture to a fan, cooling off a hot summer day.

Going in to town you can smell the Whitfield Brothers dairy. While the smell of cow manure can be offensive to some… others consider it the “smell of money”. Personally, I’d rather smell a dairy farm, then the car fumes of downtown anywhere metro.

And every morning while having coffee, I can hear the hummingbirds outside my kitchen window, before I actually see them at the feeder.

I wonder how the other half are getting along???

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