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Is it KU sports time yet or what?

Oh. I thought this was a weather related post. Which, by the way - the weather sucks balls. My son said the "real feel" temperature in KC was 116⁰ today. It was a crisp 108⁰ here.

8pm and the heat index is still over 100° here in Houston.

Just got back from a walk. It’s 88 at 10:30 in LFK. Feels like 97

KU sports can't come fast enough so sick of this crap. -------TWENTY FIVE DYS TILL kickoff

Sunday was 97 for a high with heat index 114-- ----Monday was 98 degrees and heat index 116 - -& today was 98 with a heat index at 111 screw that here in Topeka

Out of curiosity how many of ya work outside in the heat? It’s not that bad if you spend the entire day outside. AC has ruined perceptions.

My wife was just saying how it wasn’t that bad of a summer heat-wise. And then I had to remind her August is usually hotter than July…

I still prefer the heat to the cold

@Kcmatt7 look up the average monthly temperatures in Vancouver,BC, Canada and see what you think.

My wife has been talking about moving to the Phoenix area from here near Hilton Head. Me: "So, go from almost Hell with water saturating the air to actual Hell with no water at all. Try again!"

I am of the opinion that summer is a great time. There are lots of good novels, short stories, series, music, and movies to be watched without being distracted by sports or the feeling of obligation to prove to people online that your takes on sports are more correct than theirs. Then there is always that "spending time with your loved ones" thing.

The older I get the less I enjoy the summer.

@mayjay Oh, but Phoenix is a DRY heat.

Like my oven.

@dylans grew up farming, which made me realize working from my home office is much more pleasant. I remember my dad and grandpa saying go to college so you don’t have to do this.

@nuleafjhawk My dad was in Az in WW2. He said the humidity was so low that you never felt sweat even in the 90's playing tennis. But you would end up with a white crust on your skin. Now, I've heard people say irrigation has more than doubled the humidity levels.

Again, I pass. Like, I will pass through to see the Grand Canyon.

The nice thing about Kansas is not only do the summers suck, the winters also suck.

@mayjay I agree with you that I am fine to visit Phoenix, but would not want to live there. Why would you want to move to a place where they are already fighting over water, the one thing necessary to sustain life?

@FarmerJayhawk consistency....

@mayjay I was born in Phoenix. I told my parents (at age 2 🙄) to get me out of that inferno. So we moved to Rapid City, SD. In December. Talk about going from one extreme to another.

@FarmerJayhawk said in To hell with the summer:

The nice thing about Kansas is not only do the summers suck, the winters also suck.

I was born in Wilcox Arizona. Every day is nice in Kansas. But I guess the weather sucks to others. It’s pretty pleasant if you ask me, right up to 100 degrees. Low humidity, almost always a breeze. The winters are pretty mild, very little snow and generally it’ll be in the 50s sometime in January.

The people that complain the hardest about the weather spend the least time in it I find. The problem is between the ears, not the actual temperatures. It’s always hot in July and August and cold in December and January, it’s normal.

It’s kids from the city that always complain the hardest at work and quit when it gets hot or hard (excuse me, young men are the problem, the women I’ve hired have always finished the job. They seem to have more follow through when the guys just wimp out). I’ve seen 4’11” 90# young lady out work a 6’3” 215# workout fanatic and the thing is it repeats constantly. Too many young men in general are giant pussies these days. Culture shift to mental weakness - it’s not physical. It’s ok they’ll learn, it’s just later in life now.

My friend’s grandfather who was 98 at the time was driving a cab-less tractor in 107 degree heat - it got too hot for him. They found him laying in a hole under the tractor. Fearing the worst they approached his body. Man, was he pissed they interrupted his nap.

@dylans farmers have a time honored tradition of complaining about the weather. It’s a skill honed over many generations of Kansas farming communities. I just talked to my grandpa the other day and he was upset about the heat burning up our fall crop. This cold front is much needed. It’s not a nice day in Kansas when a storm destroys your income for the season.

@mayjay said in To hell with the summer:

@nuleafjhawk My dad was in Az in WW2. He said the humidity was so low that you never felt sweat even in the 90's playing tennis. But you would end up with a white crust on your skin. Now, I've heard people say irrigation has more than doubled the humidity levels.

Again, I pass. Like, I will pass through to see the Grand Canyon.

I had a buddy that I met in College and he was from Arizona. He couldn’t handle the Kansas humidity very well at all. He was a football player and passed out several times at practice. He always claimed 100 in Arizona felt like 75 here.

@kjayhawks he was a psychopath. Respectfully.

@FarmerJayhawk said in To hell with the summer:

@dylans farmers have a time honored tradition of complaining about the weather. It’s a skill honed over many generations of Kansas farming communities. I just talked to my grandpa the other day and he was upset about the heat burning up our fall crop. This cold front is much needed. It’s not a nice day in Kansas when a storm destroys your income for the season.

That’s what crop insurance is for. Sometimes you actually make more with the insurance check and whatever is left of the crop.

There is no way an economist would ever work out as a farmer. The numbers rarely work up front, but do on the back end - it would be infuriating to know all your number crunching is 100% wrong every time. It seems you made a good career choice, it appears you’d be very stressed as a farmer and that’s no good.

@dylans then it kills your proven yield baseline so a couple bad years can really screw you.

It’s a stressful job for about anyone, at least from the people I’ve known over the years. Not sure what my degree has to do with it (econ really emphasizes decision making under uncertainty and providing a range of outcomes) but I know business majors who have been really successful at it. I’m still involved in the management side of things since my grandpa retired so I’m still in it, but you won’t find me in a cab anytime soon. The renters would be very confused lol

@FarmerJayhawk If you don’t have stress you aren’t breathing.

2 out of 10 years drop out on the insurance deal. Hail and wind insurance covers the top end. Federal crop insurance the bottom. Irrigation guarantees a steady yield line. If they don’t have irrigated land - they barely work and I’m not listening about stress caused by not working. Dryland farmers have one of the easiest jobs in the world - no boss, no set hours, 9 months out of the year doing absolutely nothing. Most have inherited what they have too (I’m describing family here - he has zero stress and will retire that way). The young guys that are getting into farming with no ground given to them by family are very impressive to me.

I work for farmers as crop consultant. I don’t check for ingrates, miserable people, or assholes. The growers I have all enjoy life and their work. My job just requires that I’m right in what I tell the farmers 100% of the time - there is no partial credit, but by doing it properly it helps reduce the stress on the growers - I tell them when/what to plant, when/what to spray for weeds, insects, and disease, when to water, how much fertilizer and when to apply it, when to shut the water off, when to harvest. I’d like to think that reduces their stress a little.

I bet this conversation would make @KUSTEVE ‘s head exploded. 😂 not an ag fan. @approxinfinity - it’s definitely time for KU basketball. Thankfully pre-season nfl football has started. It’s a crappy version of football, but it’s still better than baseball!

@dylans ah well pretty much none of that applies to me so on we go. When you’re in a drought only so much water is available (sometimes it’s none). It just depends on the year and rotations, but our big crops are wheat, beans, corn, and milo. Most years fall crop is our main season. We start planting in late spring and finish harvesting sometimes late fall. Winter is all about placing orders and keeping the books in order, which is real work for us. It’s pretty involved running the day to day stuff for what would I consider to be a very successful business.

And it was quite an experience growing up laying gated pipe and going twice a day to open and close gates then go to the other fields to run siphon tubes. Good memories.

@FarmerJayhawk yeah. I understand ne Kansas farming. It’s much more relaxed than the big farms out west. This area is one of the most intensely farmed and managed areas in the row crop world. If you get even 60 miles away the work load and income crater. I’m not saying there is no stress though. Everyone has stress even if you do nothing you will manufacture stress for yourself. Folks are mentally weak to buckle under something so trivial as work stress - suicides over work, are you kidding me?!? There is another job. There is another day.

I just had a fucking disaster the last few days. A well cratered in one of my pastures and 6 cows and a calf died before I found and fixed it. The last 4 died in my arms as I tried to save them, that last breath is heart wrenching. It’s beyond shitty, but you do what you can and move on.

@dylans That's tough. Hats off to farmers in these strange times. I don't know much about the farming business. Having your living dependent on rain, sun, drought, severe storms just sounds like it must be an annual drama in real life.

@wissox Who needs Vegas?!?

Nah the yields are actually fairly predictable -farmers generally aren’t nomads and most have decades of history in a n area. Plan for the worst and enjoy the good times. But if you plan based on the best of times you will suffer tremendously in the bad times.

The markets swing, but that creates opportunity. It’s all fun a games…

@approxinfinity said in To hell with the summer:

Is it KU sports time yet or what?

I need it more than ever

@BShark One thing to appreciate about the resurgance in KU football is the interest in KU sports now starts soon instead of early November.

@wissox I don't know much about farming either. The only solid fact I know for sure is that one Kansas farmer feeds 129 people. Or 1 Mangino. 🙄