Sharpening the Blunted Plowshare

Whenever wintry rain confines the farmer
Much he can do betimes that otherwise
He’ll have to hurry when the skies have cleared.
Ploughmen beat sharp the blunted ploughshare point;

Virgil wrote that in the Georgics in 29 BC. That’s still good advice today. We’re working on things so we won’t have to hurry whenever it finally warms up this year.

We don’t plow, so we don’t have any blunted plowshare points to sharpen, so instead I updated the firmware in our planter monitor today.

Updating
Updating

It took about half an hour to complete the updates. I’m glad I listened to Virgil and didn’t wait until the day we were ready to plant to do this.

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