Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Free Write 2/19/13

I don't know if I'm going ot be able to complete this entire ten minute free write, I feel like I could pass out just typing. I worked at fifteen hour shift yesterday, got eight hours of sleep and still am tired. I guess I can't complain to much though I am making pretty good money for an eighteen year old kid. It just burns up pretty quick with all the driving I have to do. I honestly don't know what I'm going to write about. Oh, I thought of something. I have started getting my tractor tuned back up from sitting in the shop for almost a year, for the pulling season. Other than hunting and fishing, tractor pulling is what gets me. To be on top of a thirty year old machine that you have turned up way way way above stock, running down the track at about eighty miles and hour on a tractor! You can feel the RPM's climb when you hit the water injection, watch the smoke turn from white to pitch black raw unburned fuel because your turning about twice what the motor would if it was stock still. If it's dark enough when I pull it throws a blue flame out the exhaust. It has been repainted twice because the motor get's so hot it peels the paint.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Free Write 2/14/13

Today is Valentines day. I wish I was cuddled up with that certain speacial someone this morning but I have to fill my brain with knowledge, oh well. Yesterday wasn't to bad of a day. I got to work about 7:45 and loaded the feed truck and headed off to go feed. Everything went smoothly until I got to one of our farms called J highway. Everything was flooded and with a ton of feed on the back I didn't think anything about being stuck. I pulled up to the feed troughs and I could feel the truck sinking just sitting there. I got the grain out and fed just fine, but when I went to turn around on the other side of the troughs well it sunk to the axle. A 1/4 ton truck with a ton of feed on the back really doesn't get around all that great. Well when I started backing up and going forward I was slowly inching my way out. After about thirty minutes of spinning and rapping a motor out in first gear I finally pulled out of the sink hole. Oh, and I burned a 1/4 tank of gas just spinning, the rooster tails of mud were going 30-40 yards. But after that the day went smoothly and it was all in all a great day.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Free Write 2/12/13

Today is Tuesday and I am beat. Not to mention it's a 7:00 a.m. class. Which means I have to wake up at 5:30 after going to see my girlfriend until 11 which was a terrible idea. I was tired at 5 when I drove up there and just never should have went up there. Anyway enough with the complaining. There is roughly 62 days until turkey season opens!! I've been doing some research and I think I'm going to take a kid youth hunting at Compton Hollow Conservation Area in Northview MO that way I don't have to let him hunt all my good spots. I don't think there will be all that many people there since it will only be youth season. I'm hoping so anyway. The information online says that it has a good turkey population so hopefully I can get him on his first bird. Don't get me wrong I love to deer hunt, mostly with a bow. But birds seem to be what get me. From ducks, and geese, to a gobbling tom way up high on a ridge, running in to your gun barrel and feeling the ground shake when he lets out one of those majestic gobbles. There really is a feeling like no other. I think why I like to bird hunt so much is they are so much more vocal than deer. You call to ducks, geese, and turkey to get them in but deer you pretty much just sit and wait for them to walk by you.