Fall harvest, football, seasonal events keep us running

Fall is a busy season in these Ozark hills. Farmers have been putting up the last hay crop and clearing their fields before winter. The big bales from our field have been hauled to the barn and many others in the area have been put up. Shorter days and cooler nights have arrived and already we have heard the sounds of a few flocks of geese heading south. The persistent calls of the crows alert us that the pecan crop is ready, and I’ve gone out and filled my pockets a couple of times. The walnut crop appears to be pretty good this year, too, but with only one tree we have few nuts so I gave them to our neighbor’s grandsons who were picking up others in the area.

We took a pickup load of metal to the recycle center