The soybeans are mostly harvested and a lot of the corn is out of the field. The weather has been favorable with a little rain and fog. It’s our turn for the fall colors and the Ahlers farm on Highway 59 has some of the best I have seen this year. There are some other trees scattered around that are stunning and well worth the time to enjoy.
Pheasant hunting started last Saturday at 9:00 a.m. rushing the duck hunters. It was a great day for us. Sitting on the edge of a cornfield, we had a proud rooster fly right in front of us but it was 45 minuets too early. Shortly afterward a four point buck walked up the corn row within fifteen feet before he noticed us. It was also a great day for ducks. Probably as good or better than the opener. Pheasant hunting includes a lot of walking which doesn’t work as well as it used too. Fifty years ago road hunting was popular and then it was fairly successful most times. Today it’s mostly the grass lands that are worth the effort. Corn rows are too narrow to walk and too tall to see anything if it did get up.
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A tornado hit a farmhouse just before dawn. It lifted the roof off, picked up the beds on which the farmer and his wife slept, and set them down gently in the next county. The wife began to cry.
“Don’t be scared, Susan,” her husband said. “We are not hurt.”
Susan continued to cry. “I’m not scared,” she said between sobs. “I’m happy ‘cause this is the first time in 15 years we’ve been out together.
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If you live being scared to die, it means you don’t know how to live.
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Have a good week.
