Saw a huge variety of wildlife today.

That's very cool.

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Huge day, very jealous, frick society right now.

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Yea after sitting in this.



I should have called the game warden because I know after all the birds that were shot some of those people were over the limit.
That’s me at the top of the hill causing that shite show.
A buddy sent me that picture and asked how my day was going.


It’s nice to have this view after all that.

Not to depress a good thread but just bothered me quite a bit. Wife and I went and caught some bream and after I cleaned them decided to take the guts and heads to the dumpsters a few miles down the road. On way back saw 4 raccoons in the road and I stopped to let them cross. They were all huddled up and I honked my horn. They dispersed except one young one that had been ran over but was still alive trying to get up. Parked my truck and went over towards it and I could hear it and it’s mom calling to each other.

Just depressing as shite. Went back to truck to get a shovel and thinking of what I could do, in city limits so I wasn’t gonna shoot it and another car came by and hit it again. I just moved it off the road. Sad seeing it’s siblings and mom hurdled next to it trying to coax it across the road but it’s back was broke. I was glad it got hit again and killed quickly though. Sorry for the rant, but just happened a few minutes ago

Reminds me of the Paul Harvey story. Would he be canceled?

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And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board." So God made a farmer.

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain'n from 'tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours." So God made a farmer.

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week's work with a five-mile drive to church. "Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life 'doing what dad does.'" So God made a farmer

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Is that meridianville?

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Close, Hazel Green.

I didn't think commercial wheat was grown in Alabama?

Also have I ever told you I am super envious of you/your job, pretty much all farmers. I regret not going for something in AG when I switched majors. Still would like to do AG sales or crop consulting but those jobs seem few and far between.

I'd be nervous of hitting a bedded down fawn, they will stay put not matter what when young.

Thanks for sharing the pics. Haven't been in the country lately, but I've been seeing my regular Chickadees, Cardinals, Blue Jays, some big Red Headed Woodpeckers, some little Downy Woodpeckers, and the squirrels that eat half the food I put out.


The woodpeckers love peanut butter! (tweet)

The Rose Breasted Grosbecks were eating the peanut butter in April (tweet)

I’ve seen 3-4 groups of a dozen or more bucks in velvet in the last week. I’ve also seen a lot of fawns around the house . I’ll get some pics of the bucks and post them .