OK, you’ve had about 315 days to think about it. You good, or have you put it in the I’ll get to it file?” That was the text from my friend Allan Lavin at 6:10 Thursday morning. Far from good, I hadn’t written a word, today’s Cup of Coffee was filed - buried - in the, ‘I’ll get to it file.’

I had thought about the words to fill this space on the farm this summer, on the drive up the Northway on Tuesday and some more Wednesday while we positioned the cannon for another year – our 18th of daily publishing.