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I N T E R N A T I O N A L
FLYING FARMER

July/August 2014 Volume 68, Number 47
IFF Queen’s Weekend - page 16
Chapter Conventions
Minnkota page 22 Michigan/Ohio page 24 Tri State page 26
2014 - 15 Calendar of Events
August 2014
1-2 – IFF Convention Pre Tour -- Train/Bus Trip to Glenwood Springs
3-6 – IFF Convention -- Embassy Suites -- Loveland, Colorado
7 – IFF Convention Post Tour -- Denver City Tour
September 2014
12-14 – Ontario Convention -- Comfort Inn Lundy’s Lane, Niagara Falls, ON
phone: [phone] by August 10th
22-26 – Rails & Tales Bus Tour of NH, Leaving from Allentown, PA
October 2014
17-18 – Region III Tour--Quality Inn & Suites--Litchfield, IL 217-324-9260 by
October 1st
January 2015
12-14 – IFF Workshop -- Navarre Best Western -- Navarre, FL 850-939-9400
April 2015
10-12 – Alberta Convention
17-19 – Manitoba Convention
May 2015
15-17 – Mid-Atlantic Convention -- Crisfield, MD
June 2015
5-6 – Tri State Convention -- Richland, WA
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International Flying Farmer
(ISSN 0020-675X)
Vol. 68 – May/June 2014 – No.3
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Patricia L. Amdor.......................................Editor
IFF OFFICERS 2013-2014
President Wendell Rust (Joyce)
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SPECIAL FEATURES
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Vice President Burl Scherler (Cathy) 14 Sossaman Family Chronicles
21899 County Road 59
Sheridan Lake, CO 81071 16 IFF Queen’s Weekend
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Official Reports
President’s Report
By Wendell Rust
Indiana Flying Farmer
I saw something glittery on top hangar. The snow and ice sticks
of Queen Pat Amdor’s head. It between my toes. Brrrr. And
reminded me of how I like to when it gets above 95 degrees I
crunch on ice cubes. Ahhh! get to sleep in the hangar,
because the dehumidifier keeps
I loved being petted and babied it nice and cool.
by Duchess Carol Detje.
Ruuuuff? I like to go to the end of the
We have always acknowledged that runway with Wendell and play
the International Flying Farmers is I really liked Doug Lewis and his corn cob golf. I’m really fast. I
a family oriented organization. Any
friend Emily who kept me can catch and retrieve over a
immediate member of an IFF
company for a long time. Yip. hundred corn cobs faster than
family membership is automatically
Wendell can serve them up. It
a member of the Flying Farmers
I knew Gordon Beidler was a makes his elbow sore. He’s
organization. Therefore, Rusty is
“IFF dog person” the minute I getting kind of slow.
a member of the IFF. Rusty
laid brown eyes on him.
demonstrates a lot of interest in
flying, so I thought I would let Rusty I have to run. I’m flying to
write my last article from his The music sounded good, but I Florida. Most dogs don’t have
perspective. couldn’t see anything. Arrrf. their own plane and pilot. When
we get to the Milton airport, I
By Rusty: I thought the food smells were get to ride with my head out of
Woof, I’m glad to be in a Flying
really great. Ummm! the window all the way to
Farmers’ family. I love to fly. And
Navarre Beach. My ears blow
I hate it when the plane takes off
I think Randy Klotz looks like he and it looks like I am flying. I
from the farm strip without me.
needs a good farm dog. can’t wait to jump into the surf.
Somebody who is always happy I don’t know why everyone who
I like to watch planes fly overhead.
to see him. has a dog doesn’t join the Flying
In my very first year, I have flown Farmers.
to Florida eight times. By the third I always help after a fly in by
trip to Florida, I already had the running around the hangar floor, See you at the next fly-in, and
right hangar door memorized at the picking crumbs up off the floor keep your tail behind you. Drop
airport. I like to dognap a lot on after everyone goes home. some crumbs on the floor just
long trips.
for me. Wooof!
I saw Cathy Scherler taking
I especially liked all the Flying
family photographs. I like to By Wendell:
Farmers at the IFF President’s
chew up pictures. I didn’t make Joyce and Rusty and I wish to
Dinner and Chapter Convention,
it into any of the family thank the International Flying
and I will list why:
photographs. But if I can get Farmers’ organization and the
hold of her camera, I don’t think Indiana Flying Farmers Chapter
I loved Mary Gruber’s scarf. She
she can catch me. for the opportunity to be a part
smells good too. Gruuuff!
of and serve such a great
When it gets below 10 degrees, organization for so many years.
I get to sleep in the airplane We hope to see you at the next
4 The International Flying Farmer July/August 2014 fly-in. Bring some peach pie.
Official Reports
Queen’s Report
By Pat Amdor
Illinois Flying Farmer
President Wendell Rust. The feed you, show you their part
middle of May took me to of the country and even give up
Astoria, Oregon for the Tri State their own beds for you. North
convention. The last weekend America has some beautiful
in May was my IFF Queen’s scenery. Coming from flat
weekend. Illinois, I am always amazed at
the mountains and the coasts.
It has been a very busy year and Every part of the continent has
often a little stressful because I its own special beauty.
This has been an amazing year. seem to get behind. However,
It has been a honor to represent it has been very exciting and I’ve Thank you for allowing me to
the International Flying Farmers traveled a lot. It has been great represent International Flying
as your Queen. I have traveled seeing old friends and meeting Farmers and thank you for
from the East Coast to the West new people. Being in the office, making me feel so special.
Coast this year attending chapter I see members’ names on a daily Thanks to all the members who
conventions. basis and it has been wonderful welcomed me into their homes
to put faces with names of and thanks to all the chapters
In September, I attended the people I hadn’t met. who covered my registrations
Ontario convention in Parry and the ones who also covered
Sound. October took me to Mio, IFF is such a wonderful family my hotel rooms.
Michigan for the Region III Tour. and family organization. Flying
November and December were Farmers make you feel at home I hope to see many of you at
spent at home. In January I wherever you go. They the IFF Convention in Loveland,
traveled to Tucson, Arizona for welcome you into their homes, Colorado!
the IFF Workshop. Following
that, I attended the Arizona
Annual Meeting in Mesa.
February is a great month to get
away from Illinois, so I went to
the Snowbird Fly-In in
Bradenton, Florida. In April I
went to Red Deer, Alberta for
the Alberta Flying Farmers
convention. Then I traveled to
Flemington, New Jersey for the
Mid-Atlantic Convention where
IFF MOY and WOY George and
Judy Conard were honored. On
the way home from New Jersey,
I stopped in Nappanee, Indiana
for the Indiana/Illinois
convention and to honor IFF My Family - Back L to R: Tricia & Zach Campbell, Charlie, James & Amanda Amdor.
Front L to R: Claire, Ian & Ryan Campbell, IFF Queen Pat, Morgan & Riley Amdor.
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Official Reports
Duchess’s Report
By Carol Detje
Iowa/Missouri Flying Farmer
for 4 miles. We are all okay and They had a good attendance and
our families are too. Lots of lots of wonderful entertainment.
trees are gone and houses have As I’ve said before, if you don’t
roofs missing. Trees fell on go to other chapter conventions,
houses but no one was hurt. you miss a lot of good
Everyone is thankful for being fellowship. Everyone made me
On June 30th, an EF-2 tornado alive. Cleanup has started. feel so special. I installed the
went through Traer with new officers. I want to thank
estimated peak winds of 120 I attended the Minnkota the Minnkota chapter for
mph and a path 150 yards wide convention which was great! everything.
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Official Reports
Farmerette’s Report
By Alexis Taylor
Iowa/Missouri Flying Farmer
Everyone has memories of summertime – family vacations, picnics, cook-outs. Summer has been the
inspiration for many popular songs. Can you remember the artist who sang each of the summery songs
below?
A. Bryan Adams ___ 1. In The Summertime
B. Bananarama ___ 2. Summertime Blues (1958)
C. John Trivolta & ___ 3. Cruel Summer
Olivia Newton-John
___ 4. All Summer Long (2008)
D. Nat King Cole
___ 5. Summer Breeze
E. Don Henley
___ 6. Hot Fun In The Summertime
F. The Lovin’ Spoonful
___ 7. Summertime
G. Clint Black
___ 8. Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy
H. Mungo Jerry Days of Summer
I. The Beach Boys ___ 9. Summer of ‘69
J. Ella Fitzgerald & ___ 10. The Boys of Summer
Louis Armstrong
___ 11. Summer Nights
K. Percy Faith Orchestra
___ 12. Summer In The City
L. Eddie Cochran
___ 13. All Summer Long (1964)
M. Kid Rock
___ 14. Theme From “A Summer
N. Seals & Crofts Place”
O. Sly & The Family ___ 15. Summer’s Comin’
Stone
ANSWERS on Page 15
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Technology Trends
by Tricia Campbell
daughter of Pat Amdor
Illinois Flying Farmer
Do You Dropbox? and download (save) the
documents, 6,000 PDF
document to my home
If you deal with computer files computer. documents, or 1,000 photos
(Word documents, digital 3. Edit the document and (depending on size).
pictures, spreadsheets, etc) and re-save it to my home
you need to access them from computer with changes. To use Dropbox, the first step is
multiple locations, a cloud 4. From my home to visit www.dropbox.com and
storage like Dropbox is exactly computer, e-mail myself create an account. This account
what you need. and attach the document will have a username, normally
your e-mail address, and a
so I can retrieve it at work
Cloud computing means that the the next day. password of your choice. As
programs or files you’re using 5. From my work computer, with all things, don’t forget the
are stored in the “cloud”, which access e-mail and open username and password that
is really a server somewhere in the finished document. you create! At this point, you
the world that you can access That’s a LOT of steps! officially have a Dropbox
via an internet browser. This account but the only way to use
means that no matter where you There’s also the flash drive it is to log in through a browser
are, if you have access to the solution (fewer steps) where at and upload files to your folder.
internet, you can access your work I would save the document This isn’t any easier than
files if they are saved in the to a flash drive, remove the drive attaching files to an e-mail
cloud. and take it home with me, insert message so this doesn’t really
save you much time. The BEST
the drive at home and finish the
Personally, before using the document, and remove that way to utilize Dropbox is to not
cloud for file storage, this might drive to take back to work with only create the free online
be a typical problem: me the next day. This method account but to DOWNLOAD the
free software onto each
is much easier, unless you forget
I’ve typed a Word document on the flash drive at home when computer that you regularly use.
my computer at work but didn’t you really need that document
have time to finish it and need at work (which I did….many When you DOWNLOAD and
to finish it at home. I’ll have to times!). INSTALL Dropbox on your
get that document home computer, you have a local file
somehow… The solution that works best for storage location called
The e-mail solution: me is Dropbox. Dropbox offers “Dropbox” on each computer.
1. From my work computer, 2GB of storage for free with a Just change your saving habits.
compose an e-mail to basic account and you can pay If you would normally save a file
myself and attach the for additional storage if needed. to “My Documents” or “Desktop”,
document that I’ll need to To compare, a 2GB flash drive begin saving your documents to
finish at home. is about $8.00 and will hold “Dropbox”. When you do so,
2. From my home around 30,000 Word you can move to any other
computer, access e-mail computer on which you have
8 The International Flying Farmer July/August 2014
Computer Trivia
installed Dropbox and open the
1. RIM (the BlackBerry operating system company) co-CEO and
file from its Dropbox folder.
cofounder Mike Lazaridis dropped out of college to start his own
company. He did so after reading Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates’,
If you need help, visit
www.dropbox.com and click the book.
Help link at the bottom. On the 2. The first hard disk drive was created in 1979 by Seagate. Its
help page are answers to
capacity was a whopping (not) 5 MB.
Frequently Asked Questions as
3. HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common
well as the option to Take a Tour
– apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were
of Dropbox. And there’s always
all started in garages.
the YouTube way. Head on over
to www.youtube.com and search 4. The 12 engineers at IBM that developed the IBM PC had a
for “Dropbox tutorial” and watch code name – “The Dirty Dozen”.
some videos. Good luck! 5. The first and still the oldest domain name to be registered is
Symbolics.com, it was created on March 15th, 1985.
6. Most Central Processing Units (CPU’s) are sold as a bit slower
than they actually run. By over-clocking them you can get them
to run faster – for free.
7. The first micro-processor was the 4004, Intel had originally
designed it for a calculator and no one had any idea to what it
would lead.
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Special Feature
Watermelon Farming
by Joel Wharton
Delmarva Flying Farmer
I’m sure all of you have been to and drip (irrigation) tape that we tape immediately. We can lay
your local Farmer’s Market or will put down in the spring. about 20 acres of plastic per day
Grocery Store and purchased a with one man on the tractor and
ripe, juicy watermelon. Have A local farmer germinates our one man on the plastic layer.
you ever wondered how it got seeds in a heat chamber for
there? Probably not, but I’m about three days before bringing
going to tell you anyway. them to the greenhouse. In the
middle of March, the germinated
It starts in October. First we seeds arrive at the greenhouse.
decide which fields we will put The seeds start breaking the soil
the melons in. Then we plant the next morning.
rye strips using a grain drill and
plugging off most of the spouts, We care for the plants in the
except for a few. The rye strips greenhouse for five weeks. We After all the plastic is laid, we
separate the rows of water them as needed and start hooking up all the
watermelons that will be fertilize them a couple of times. plumbing lines so we can get
transplanted in the spring. Rye water to the drip tape. This is
is generally about 3 ft to 4 ft tall when we need more manpower
when mature and it acts as a and hire extra help. In
windbreak to give the plants Delaware, we have an
more protection from the wind abundance of water. In most
and makes the field warmer. cases, we can water with a 4 inch
This gives the plants a better well, doing approximately 14
start, and a warmer start means acres at a time for a maximum
the plants will grow faster. of 42 acres in a field. We can
Meanwhile, we start preparing water the whole field in a 24
In January or February, we order the fields. We till up the ground hour period in 3 zones, using
seeds and supplies. We usually between the rye strips with a 7 approximately 200 gallons/
plant 1,500 seedless foot rototiller pulled by a tractor, minute.
watermelon seeds and 300 so, basically one row at a time,
pollinator (seeded) seeds/acre. several times, until ready. We The last step before
We also order the black plastic then broadcast fertilizer and start transplanting is to apply
laying the black plastic and drip herbicide and burn-down
(Gromoxone) which will kill any
10 The International Flying Farmer July/August 2014 remaining weeds and the rye.