Following the Brickleys from Nantucket to Durham to Indiana to Richmond to Tennessee to Springfield and everywhere inbetween...

Thursday, November 12, 2009

HE HAD WATER IN HIS GLASS???

Bobby....enjoyed the pictures, looking forward to seeing some more. It looks pretty flat out there. Is that considered prairie land?

Monday, November 9, 2009

More Hunting Pictures






The ground that we hunted was mostly CRP (Conservation Relocation Program) land. Geared to help pheasants and migratory birds have habitat. The farmers are paid to leave the ground alone. It's less that they could make farming it, but they generally put in land that has lower production value (hills, holds rainwater, etc.) The first picure you see was inside the grocery store we visited. It had about 6 aisles, each about 10 feet long or less. A couple were only 3 feet long! Very small town with one main street and two residential streets.

Everyone was very nice. Of course, they need the hunters so are nice to them. Grampy and Woody have been going for 15 years now, so everyone knows them anyway. The family of one guy we hunted with farmed over 35, 000 acres! That's alot of ground. We met another guy who farmed over 40,000 acres. They both owned about 75%, and leased the rest. Wow. That;s miles of ground.

Hunting Trip



Rusty and I met Grampy and Woody in South Dakota for the great Pheasant Hunt. Fun was had by all and we met some very interesting people. The hunting involved alot of walking, next year I need to get in better shape. Some of the grass we walked through was over my head. We stayed in a basement apartment which was very nice. In the picture you can see the chair that Grampy tried to kill himself with. It was broken and when he sat down and leaned back he went over backwards! But don't worry, he didn't spill his glass of water!

More pictures to follow. I can't get it to take any more right now. Operator error I think.