cstocks
Platinum Member
It was sure good to get away to the country this past weekend after working massive overtime for the past six weeks. My wife, our seven year old grand daughter and I loaded it up and left the the big city last Thursday night looking like the Beverly Hillbillies on moving day. I had my fourwheeler in the back of my truck and my tractor loaded on my trailer. There were two 100 qt. ice chests strapped on top of the bush hog and two weed whackers, a chainsaw, gas and diesel cans and bags of groceries all stacked around the fourwheeler. The only thing missing was Granny Clampett riding down the highway perched on the tractor.
My friends can always tell when I have spent time at my uncle's farm in south Arkansas because I always come back to work with the battle scars to prove it. This past weekend was no exception. I am sunburned from playing/working on my tractor in the midday sun. I have about twenty'leven chigger bites on my legs from wearing shorts and refusing to spray my legs with bug spray. I have two whelps from being stung by yellow jackets; durn their butts for not liking my mowing over their nest! I got stung on the knuckle so I waved my hat to shoo them away and proceeded to catch one in my cap and put it back on my head! I have briar scratches and a sore back from the chainsaw and riding around on 200 acres worth of overgrown fourwheeler trails. At least I did not find a single tick on me this trip!
My grand daughter had a blast. It was her first trip to the country. She fished and rode all over creation with me on my fourwheeler and played with the dogs and saw all kind of critters that she had never seen before. When we were driving back home on Monday she talked to her mom on the cell phone. The first thing she had to tell her mom was about how many deer she saw and about the snakes, rabbits, squirrels, buzzards, turkeys and even the terrapin that almost got run over by the bush hog. She also had to tell her about the two hornets nests that we discovered, one by the pond and the other beside one of the fourwheeler trails. I am so glad that she made that 350 mile trip with us. I have been making memories in the country all my life and I hope I helped her make a few good ones this past weekend.
Yeah, it was good to go home and spend time away from the crowds and the noise. I hated to come back to the city and my job. Someday I am going to make that trip to the woods and never come back. I look forward to that day.
Chris
My friends can always tell when I have spent time at my uncle's farm in south Arkansas because I always come back to work with the battle scars to prove it. This past weekend was no exception. I am sunburned from playing/working on my tractor in the midday sun. I have about twenty'leven chigger bites on my legs from wearing shorts and refusing to spray my legs with bug spray. I have two whelps from being stung by yellow jackets; durn their butts for not liking my mowing over their nest! I got stung on the knuckle so I waved my hat to shoo them away and proceeded to catch one in my cap and put it back on my head! I have briar scratches and a sore back from the chainsaw and riding around on 200 acres worth of overgrown fourwheeler trails. At least I did not find a single tick on me this trip!
My grand daughter had a blast. It was her first trip to the country. She fished and rode all over creation with me on my fourwheeler and played with the dogs and saw all kind of critters that she had never seen before. When we were driving back home on Monday she talked to her mom on the cell phone. The first thing she had to tell her mom was about how many deer she saw and about the snakes, rabbits, squirrels, buzzards, turkeys and even the terrapin that almost got run over by the bush hog. She also had to tell her about the two hornets nests that we discovered, one by the pond and the other beside one of the fourwheeler trails. I am so glad that she made that 350 mile trip with us. I have been making memories in the country all my life and I hope I helped her make a few good ones this past weekend.
Yeah, it was good to go home and spend time away from the crowds and the noise. I hated to come back to the city and my job. Someday I am going to make that trip to the woods and never come back. I look forward to that day.
Chris
