Northern Farmer

It finally is starting to cool off around here again. Ninety plus degrees has been the norm this summer and I’m getting a little tired of it. But now it’s around seventy and a little cloudy out and it feels a whole lot better. I was driving the tractor with hayrake the other day heading out to a field and while I was crossing our drainage ditch a big old buck mink came out of the grass and gave me that deer in the headlights look before he turned around back into the swamp grass. If I had trapping fever before this I am really getting it now, can’t wait for later fall. The animals all seem happier now that it finally cooled down again and the countryside is full of wildlife for us to enjoy. In a few weeks hunting will open for some of the animals and that’s the time when we get to see relation that we haven’t seen for a good year. It always amuses me how some of these cousins will remember that we carry the same DNA when hunting season starts. They show up in their big gas hogs and expensive hunting gear so willing to be friends and buddies again. So I always let them go hunting, figuring they never get anything anyhow so what the heck. At least if they’re out there the animals are fairly safe. They tromp around for a hour or two and then drive home, done with us for another year.

I’d better get back out now while there’s still some daylight, I have one more pasture to check and hopefully get a cool sleep for once.

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