Free Write 1/31/13

Well yesterday at work was just awful. The worst day I think I have ever had there. I starting feeding hay when I get there and it's spitting snow and raining and it's 25 degrees and the wind chill is like ten. Then I get a call that we have some cattle out at one of our propety's. So me and the other farm hand go over there with fencing supplies and everything we need. We get there and we find the heifers. We finally get them back in, and we start to fix the fence where they might have gotten out. Then I look up and there is 5 more out. So we get them back in and we try to do a head count on the group. We're 6 short.

Free Write 1/29/13

Today is Tuesday January 29th, 2013. It's so nice outside! I get to be cooped up all day inside learning. Yesterday at work it was almost this warm and I  went to work in a t-shirt and never got cold. It's reminding me of what spring is like. That means spring turkey season is right around the corner! It's definetly one of my favorite seasons to hunt in, to walk up to a quiet patch of timber, let out a hoot on your owl call, and watch the woods come alive with gobbles. Then pick the turkey you want to go after, and actually fool and old tom into thinking you're a real hen that wants to buddy up, if you know what I mean. I think a wild turkey is the most beautiful bird ever created, they have such powerful vocals, you can be forty yards from a turkey when it gobbles and it will still shake the ground.

Free Write 1/24/13

Well today is Thursday. Why does this class have to be so early? It would be nice if it started at like 830 or 900 instead of 700! Oh well I'll live i guess. Yesterday I worked most of the day but got off early because my boss wanted to go fishing so he called it quits for the day. I fed a couple bales of hay and then went and worked some cattle and then hauled them and then fed a little more hay and headed back to the house. I ate lunch really quick and then headed up to Bolivar to see my girlfriend. It was so nice to see her, she's such a sweetheart and I'm a lucky guy! I can genuinely say that, I've been in relationships before but never like this, she's got me wrapped around her pretty little finger. Well enough of the mushy crap. I'm ready for turkey season already, the only thing I have left to get is a red dot scope and a saddle mount for my 870 super mag. I thought I would try out the red dot one year to see how i like it you never know i might fall in love! The only bad part is I have to take it off for waterfowl season and then re-sight it before turkey season every year  but I think if I like it then it will be worth it. To hear a mature tom gobbling his head off on the top of a ridge in the middle of a beautiful spring morning is breath taking. Shooting a turkey isn't what excites me, I mean sure it's nice but the fun part is fooling and old tom into thinking you're a real hen and then when you get him fired up enough to where he comes running into the end of your gun barrel is awesome! There is nothing funner than chasing old weary toms in the middle of the spring woods.

Free Write 1/17/13

Well today is thursday. its cold outside. i worked all day yesterday, from sunup to sundown it was freezing all day, but the good part is most of the day i was in the truck feeding hay and grain. then when i got off i went to  my girlfriends house in boolivar and saw her until about eleven lastnight then i came home and went to bed. the sleep that i did get was ok but still having to wake up was awful. this morning class stuff is for the birds, especially when you still work a full time job. i mean i love my job and i look forward to what ii do everyday but its a litle over bearing especially when yhou are trying to study for finals. bbut it pays good and i actually like it so i guess i cant conplain. today i leave this crap place at two fifteen. and i still have a hour and a half lunch break! that's not to bad i dont think. well im slowly running out of things to type about because myeyes are about to snap shut. i bet if i closed my eyes for one minute i would be asleep. there is alot of noise in this classroom from all the typing. its kind of cool to listen to, to be honest. there are some weird people at otc, mainly just old strange people that you wouldn't expect to be attending college. i miss highschool alot. it was so easy then. the teachers actually cared more about how you did and i knew everyone there. i played sports and was in ffa. my senior year of football, game 6 against reedspring highschool i dislocated my patella to the worst extent possible. i was on  a rol.

Tyler Rear: Introduction 1/15/13

Hi, my name is Tyler Rear. I'm 19 years old and live in Marshfield MO. I live to hunt and fish, I go waterfowl hunting, turkey hunting, and deer hunting. I also fly fish at bennet springs. I grew up on a farm. We have 120 registered brangus cow calf pairs. 22 of those cows are mine. I work at Menzies Cattle Company as a farm hand. I feed hay and grain all day to contract dairy heifers, and from time to time vaccanat them also. Right now I'm going to OTC just for my general education. I plan to transfer to Linn Tech in Linn MO and get my degree in Electrical Distrubution Systems, also known as a High Wire Powerlinesman. I want that job because I would get to be outsided all day. The benefits are great and the money isn't bad either. I went to Harrisburg Arkansas this winter on a guided duck hunt. I had never duck hunted out of state so this was an experience. We hunted for two days and only ended up with 8 birds. It was extremely slow hunting. Our guide said it was because most of the waterfowl had already made it down into mexico. On the bright side of the trip, I got the chance to practice my calling with a proffesional from RNT calls. We saw from 60,000-80,000 snow geese while we were there. We hunted a pit blind in a flooded rice field, and we went on a flooded Timber hunt which was my favorite. I had a pretty great winter break from college.

Free Write 1/15/13

Today is tuesday the first day of my second semester of college. it sucks so far. i really dont want to be here. i wish i was in a duck blind somewhere or working. yes, i said working. i work for a business called menzies cattle company. i driove around allday in a feed truck and feed commercial dairy heifers. easy job until i have to get outside the truck then its a muddy mess. the only part of the job that sucks is the cold and working cattle. for some reason it seems like dairy cattle are alot harder to work than beef cattle, its almost like they are dumber or something. we have some beef cows in the company but we hardly ever work them. i realy wish i was hunting. it doesnt matter how cold it is. i wish i was sitting in a duck blind drinking coffee and watching mallards pile into my decoy spread. this year has  been one of the best for us as duck hunters. were getting up close to 200 birds. considering last year we weere only at like 35 at the end of the season. still no banded birds though. this year i went to harrisburg arkansas on a duck hunt and had high hopes of killing a banded duck. but there just wasnt many birds down there and we had trouble finding them, but i shot some of the prettiest mallards ive ever seen. the other day we were hunting at a little farm pond i own and we killed a mallard gadwall cross. it had everything a mallard hen would have but its belly was white like a gadwall. and the duck was really little. then we shot two mallard hens and a mallard drake. and a canadian goose. the goose was awesome to watch. weve killed a few of them but not many and its always a treat because you get 3 times as much meat off of them. im really excited for turkey season. i have a few new spots to hunt this year. and im getitng a red dot scope for my shotgun. im also going to try a new brand of shlls. in 2009 i killed a tom that  is ranked 11th for alltime in the state of missouri.