Sheep shit

While I was growing up I would drive along the back country roads with my grandfather, and they are all back country roads, and at some point we would inevitably see sheep. My grandfather would say "sheep shit" without looking, smiling or frowning.

My dad was that way to, except he could care less about sheep. My Dad is an avide deer hunter. I enjoy it myself, but I have found little time for it as of late. We would be buzzing along the old military turnpike or the lake shore road and taking corners at a brisk 60 miles an hour in a ford F-250 and he would say: doe and two fawns standing in that second brushline.

I'd look and look and finally, just before we would round the last corner I would spot the doe. This happened so many times during the times I was growing up, I thought my father was blessed with super human sight. That black portion of your eye, the part in the middle of you iris, my dad has two of those in one of his eyes. When he was younger a piece of shrapnel (farming accident) hit him directly in the eye. In truth, this impares his vission in this eye a good deal and he has some scare tissue on his eye because of it, but being a kid I was more inclinded to believe my Dad had some sort of genetic malfunction which gave him mutant sight on the order of the X-men.

His advice to me was always the same. You've got to keep your eyes peeled. There's a lot that goes on in this world around us. Most of which we pay no attention to. Farmers grow up with the specific need to pay attention to that which everyone else ignores.

Anyone can plow the ground in the fall harrow it in the spring and plant some corn harvest it in the spring. But, if you do that year in year out every year you start to learn things about the land and the creatures of the land that teach as much about yourself if not more then you can learn from a college course in ag. I'm not sure how to describe it, other then this emotional connectedness that farmers have with land that other people just do not share.

So where am I going with this. Today is the "appreciate something which has always been there but you never noticed it day". I just made that up.

That is all

PS: I didn't proof today, deal