Kansas

Saw my first stone fence line today. Couldn’t find a good place to stop and take a picture. Due to a scarcity of wood, and an abundance of easy to quarry limestone, limestone was used for fence posts instead of the more common wood, trees, or metal stakes. Each one weighs 300 to 400 pounds. These home setters were tough. Imagine after digging several hundred holes for fence post, you have to manhandle 400 pound posts into the hole, then attach your barbwire. Hard work.

Buzzards were sitting on top of an old, dilapidated, holes in the roof and walls barn.

I thought – gosh guys, even after it finally dies, it ain’t gonna taste good. 

EM is in fine spirits and biking well despite the heat and humidity. It’s getting into the high 80’s, low 90’s. Tough walking around – how about biking 50 miles. Or sinking some limestone posts on the fence line.