One sign of intelligence is the ability to change your plans

Red dots denote peak heat-index. Note that the dew point (the green line) remains in the mid-70s. That means that wearing a wet tee-shirt will offer a lot of relief from the heat

My plan to beat the heat by working in the early morning died on the shoals of reality.

A shower shortly before sunrise made the humidity at ground-level 100% and the mosquitoes are ferocious. The wind-speeds are currently zero and don't pick up until 8:30 a.m. 

So...it looks like I will be working later in the morning and wearing a wetted tee-shirt. I dislike wearing damp shorts, so I will pin the hem up to hold the bottom of it above my belt-line.

A few photos

A no-till bean field with a very low plant-count. I walked the field and it looked like several things interacted to cause this failure.

Looking up the rows. You can see some places where everything worked and some bands where nothing worked.

The network of veins left behind suggest snails or Japanese Beetle damage.

• 30" rows, so he started with a low seed count per acre
• Seeder could not handle damp, clay soil and struggled to cover seeds after placing them in the furrows
• Snail damage on the seedlings that did emerge.

I have a lot of sympathy for this farmer. It looked like he attempted to reseed the areas where there were skips. I think he is a young guy and this will be a painful lesson. He isn't going to make any money on this field.

Posted for future reference. Makes 12 muffins

Every bit as good as McDeath's Sausage McDDNuffins.

Snails gang-tackling a velvetleaf weed (Abution theophrasti) I pulled out of the garden and tossed into the grass.

I suspect that snails emit pheromones when they are feasting. Either that, or they are attracted by the smell of drying/dying/fermenting weeds.