Yesterday we wrote a pair of farming scenes in Nuke 1975 and will write a third today. It may be surprising to readers, but this suburban Jersey guy knows nothing about agriculture. Actually our thin strip of suburbia running down NJ-206 is flanked on both sides by thousands of acres of lush farm land.
Anyway, we realized that we are related to people who grew up in farm country. Our cousin gave us tips about when stuff is planted and harvested. He agrees with the state of Kansas' assertion that a bushel of wheat can make 70 loaves of bread. He was more comfortable with 40-50 but said 70 if you had to.
By the way, you could sit us down on a coch with our Kentucky cousins and no one would know we weren't from there, till this Yankee opened his mouth, anyway.
One of our Nuke 1975 farm scenes takes place in Owensboro (pronounced Owensbura) Kentucky.
Okay, okay. If we were going to turn this into a novel, The Battle of Prudhoe Bay, about getting the oil fields there up and running, would be a great 15,000 word chapter. From 1975-1977 it took 70,000 men three years to build the pipeline. We can assume a fraction of it was already up. Could the Feds complete the pipeline in this scenario?
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