Rainy Days and Mondays

In the past five years traveling the country for America's Heartland I've only had one story lost due to rain. Considering the hundreds of stories we've done, it's a pretty impressive figure. For a show that focuses on agriculture -- weather is critical. We don't shoot in a studio, we rarely even shoot indoors! Like the farmers and ranchers we profile -- America's Heartland operates on mother nature's schedule.

That means sitting on front porches in Eastern Iowa waiting for a storm to pass. It means asking a Virginia aquaculture farmer to check on his fish in a downpour. It also means adjusting shoots on the fly and quickly rearranging schedules.

Today is one of those days. Rain is falling in Kentucky and our story wraps we were going to shoot this morning are on hold. My hope is that the weather clears out just long enough for our visit to the Old Friends horse rescue farm near Lexington. In the meantime...I find myself watching raindrops fall outside the hotel window, drinking too much free coffee from the hotel breakfast buffet and writing this blog.

I'm officially naming it: The Heartland Paradox. Farmers need rain to have a successful crop. We need farmers to have a good story. But rain keeps that from happening.

Happy Travels,
Jason