Going No-Where Fast.........?

Clear skies, sun shine and no wind..... "looks like a good morning to go see if I can find a partridge"...... "Good idea sweetie".... "What are you going to do?" ........ I'm going to clean up the house, roll cigarettes and fix your jeans"..... "Oh."

Soon he was dresses and ready to go.... I had about an hour to do anything I needed to do when he isn't here.  He takes a thermos of coffee like it will be late before he gets back but in reality I'm lucky to get an hour.

I did the check list thing with him to make sure he has shells, license, cigarettes and I make up a few things to make it sound like he's off on a big trek..... "How many shells do you have?"....... "Six" he relies....... "Than I expect you'll be bringing home six birds.".......... "I hope so Mom"........ "Put the mail in the box when you leave."..... "Okay"........and off he went.

 I waited as I was sure he'd be back before he went hunting..... Sanj & the boys were out the night before ......

No that's not Sanj in the tree....... lol

He returned and I waited in anticipation for his reaction..... he came in and handed me the mail from the day before and left again?????????

HOW COULD HE NOT SEE THAT THING IN THE TREE????????

I got busy doing stuff when the girls started barking.... I look out the window to see a pick up truck coming down the drive really slow?  Than I see Tom on the 4-wheeler following behind.  Than Tom comes from the back of the truck  and talks to the guy..... then the truck makes a u-turn and exposes the 4-wheeler with a yellow tow rope attached to it....... I think I said....... "OH SHIT!"

This belt was the culprit........

Thank God it wasn't complicated to change..... I just wasn't up for it....... : /

After the dust settled Tom said he seen the witch in the tree when the truck towed him home.... he thought it was really funny and loved it......

Thanks Kids!

Leaves...

Tom went 4-wheeling with a couple of  neighbors ........ we live in a nice area for that...... it was such a nice day with unusual warm temps for this time of year for us..... I'm glad he went and I hope he has fun........

This gave me an opportunity to get the leaves... and I do stress the plural on the end of leaf.... as in many!!!...... raked up and moved to the woods.......

We have a small drainage ditch that runs through our yard to drain water from the back to the ditch that drains to the county ditch...... the leaves are so thick that they create a dam in the spring and than our yard becomes a lake..... So I rake up and relocate the leaves that are a problem...... 

When I mentioned to Tom he could help me and it was good exercise... he jumped on his riding lawn mower.....  than he went round and round in circles??????  I told him if he was going to rake leaves with the mower... "blow them into the ditch and I'll get them from there."  "Okay"... he readily agreed.

So he tried with many maneuvers to accomplish this and just couldn't figure it out for the life of him..... than parked the lawn mower and said..."how is that?"  I looked around and seen nothing different so I said..."good job.. that helps me out a lot!"

He was pleased with what he did? and went inside..... at that point so did I as evening was closing in anyway. 

Now it's just me and the girls.... and they are as much help as Tom.... I raked them in a pile and they jumped in the middle to play

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so I would distract them by telling them there was a squirrel in the tree..... 

that didn't last long and they were back in my leaves again.....  BUT in spite of there help I did get the job done and they made it fun!

A Step Back In Time.......

Tom's been stressed over his weight and the way he feels but can't seem to push himself to go for a walk, walk on the tread mill or anything else that might be linked to any form of exercise...... and he laughs at me and tells me I'm funny when I try to make him.....

Well this A. M. Tom and Emily went...... for a walk that is......

When he got back he said.... "WHOO_AH!  I'm out of shape!" ..... "Tough walk?".... "Yeah!... I went 1 1/2 miles one way"..... "Bet the walk home was the hardest." ...... "Yeah!" he chuckled...... then he took a cup of coffee out side to cool down..... him not the coffee..... he broke a sweat.... "snicker"

I was cleaning house as he had no plans for the day....... "let's go hunting"..... he said when he came in from outside... "okay!" I quickly reply.... "or should we?" he adds......

Oh dear here we go again.... Who's On First?  TOM  can not make a decision any more so we go through... "what do you think?"... "what ever you want to do is fine with me".... "I don't know what I want to do"... "than let's go, nice day for it "... I" don't know..... what do you think"........ argh!!!!!!  This goes on for awhile even when I just go ahead and make a decision....

So we went.... hunting......took only Sarah this time.... The leaves were all on the ground already as we have been having hard frosts.... I'm so glad we got to go once before "The Fall Colors"  was over....

It still was nice in the woods.... nice day.... peaceful and quiet... we never spoke much but I was back in time when he took me the first time bird hunting..... on this same road... I chuckled to myself as I went back in time.....

"Now watch for birds on your side and I'll watch this side" he said as he slowed the car to a crawl......." okay" I answered not having a clue what I was looking for?  It didn't take long before he figured that out ......

"Do you know what your looking for?" he asked as he was chuckling.  " Yah!! I replied trying to sound confident.  "Than why are you looking up in the trees?" he asks still laughing at me.  "I'm looking for birds and birds sit in trees"......

When he gained his composure he explained to me how the partridge sit low on logs or mounds of dirt and so on...... "I knew that...... I just thought the trees were pretty"..... "yah... well we're hunting not tree looking.... eyes on the ground"... and we laughed together.......