Duck Season - Thrills and Spills

Well, another week has gone by here in the foothills of the Arkansas Ozarks. This is week when I wish that I had taken up more of the hunting sports in my younger years. What a thrill to listen to these guys come in from the big duck hunt, been out all day in the rain and the cold. "How many did you get" I asked. "Man there were lots of ducks flying." "Lots of Greenheads around today."

"How many did you get", I ask again. " The weather was just right today" they reply. "The ducks were flying low". " Lots of folks out to" "This is the last weekend of the season."

"How many did you get" I repeat for the third time.

"Oh, we just knocked down one" "Didn't want to make the dogs work to hard in that cold water"

Well there is also deer hunting. Not sure exactly what you can do in that hunting right now, but if nothing else, you can spotlight one or two. Wait a minute, thats illegal. If you get just one there it might be costly.

Agriculture and Life in Rural America

As a Master Degreed individual from Texas A&M University and being displaced in the hills of Arkansas, I write under the pen name of Hillbilly-Willy. I relate to the folks in th Ozark Hills. They take life a little differently from some of the rest of the World.

In my real day job, i work with Ranchers, farmers and those who desire the rural life. many of these however, work hard, but paly hard also. Just like today in Arkansas. This is the opening day of duck season and the second weekend of modern gun deer season. Do you think these folks are out working with the cows. Heck no! They are in the woods and blinds doing what they work all week to afford. This is what we want here.

Let this site be one of real exchange about agriculture or rural living. Let this site also be about those things that we love to do in the rural lifestyle.

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