I remember hearing Old Home Fill 'er Up And Keep On Truckin' Cafe on WHO of DesMoines, many years ago, and they played it hard for a while. That song came about because of a successful advertising campaign made by Bill Fries, featuring a trucker, a diner, and a waitress named Mavis.
Merle found a good one for us; old newsreel footage of the Besler Steam Airplane, along with some good photos of the machinery at the end of the video. Thank You, Merle!
We lit the brush pile and had our first wienie roast of the year,
and ate outdoors. It was cloudy, but
Below are a couple of bucks on our place. The first one was road kill, just past our driveway. He was hit in a curve that slows traffic a bit, so most people are able to hit the brakes and miss a deer, but one gets it occasionally. The deer herd moves around the house regularly, so young bucks like this one are practically family. We have hit our share of wildlife on the road, and we always hate it. Squirrels, birds, rabbits, and a few deer; I think I remember every one of them.
The second one is an aggravation. We have good habitat where we live, and there is habitat around us, but it all is an island surrounded by ag fields. The deer, turkey, and coyotes attract hunters all out of proportion to the size of the resource, and we have to turn away hunters and trespassers regularly. We always have hunters that hug our lines, and this buck is from one of those. Whoever shot it should have come to our door and asked about retrieving it. We actually go out and help find deer for hunters who ask, and we are glad to retrieve them with the tractor and loader. So, I wonder if this was done by an inept hunter, or a poacher. Line hunters are an aggravation, as are poor shooters, and any hunter who doesn't track down and retrieve game.
Thank You for the photo, GW!
Back around 1930, Don Marquis, writing as archy the cockroach wrote,"...incidentally i wonder why europe of today is always referred to by highbrow writers as post war europe they seem to think that the war which started in nineteen fourteen is over with whereas there have been merely a few brief truces that war is merely worrying through its first half century and will only cease permanently when a generation comes along which has forgotten all the old feuds archy the cockroach"
This video was made in 2017 at Rollag, Minnesota. David Sall's freshly restored Johny Popper. Thank You, Merle! We all love an old John Deere!
We are re-doing the garden fence to at least try to exclude the deer, and hopefully the bunny rabbits. We are even going to have TWO real garden gates.
Back To The Old Grind!
It's good to look at those engines from across the pond. Thank You, Merle!
...pulling the plow at the Old Buckley Engine Show, 2007. Great pick, Merle! Thank You!
Both of our barred owls were out to visit with us this morning. Jack did not like them watching him.
