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Strong Winds, Stronger People: An Essay on an Unforgettable Storm

There has never been a Monday across the span of time that did not require at least one cup of ‘joe to get through.

That thought coursed through my head on Monday, August 10th as I stopped for coffee at the Scooters in Boone, a stop which would make me marginally late for a meeting that I was running.

Monday was a big day for me. It was my first agronomic product training (a fancy term for talking about new corn hybrids) with my new work territory. If you haven’t figured out by now, and you should have based on the torrent of agricultural-related Tweets I flood your timeline with, I work in agriculture as an Agronomist, a role that is part advisor, part investigator, and part scientist.