What Disability?

At my age, it's as much fun to take pictures and fill feeders as it is to hunt. Or I'll just sit by the pond and watch the catfish come up to the fish feeder or watch the animals as night sets in. It's amazing to see all the wildlife start moving, and to hear coyotes yapping. I enjoy the stillness of nature when the only sound you hear is the splash of a fish jumping or a big bull frog croaking. Watching dragonflies chase down mosquitoes as the sun sinks below the treeline. Raccoons come down to the waters edge for a drink and maybe find something to eat. Turkeys fly in to their roost in the old dead cottonwood tree between the ponds. I'm fortunate to have a place like this to go but even in the city you can find a lot of the same experiences in the parks in your own hometown. A great sunset is a great sunset no matter where you are. Go outside and make some memories. I think you'll be glad you did.

I caught this crappie with a borrowed pole, on a borrowed lure and fishing from somebody else's dock at Fall River Res. We took it up to the bait shop and weighed it immediately. She came in at 3 1/4 lbs.

About 12 years ago a friend told me about an ATV he saw at the Sport Boat and Travel show in our area. One of the venders had an ATV called the ARGO. This thing will drive through or over almost anything I need it to and I can also drive it into the water and fish out of it. The tires act as propulsion for the vehicle, or I can put a trolling motor on the back and go that way. When I'm done fishing I drive out of the water and back up to the cabin.

If you don't have the ability to walk this is the next best thing. Life is good.

This picture is a friend of mine, I was fishing from the floating dock.

I learned about fishing from my grandpa. We used to go fishing in small ponds around his home in south central Kansas. Although we caught mainly bluegill, sun perch and bullheads it taught me to love being out in nature.

I have fished my whole life and have enjoyed the good days as well as the bad. I taught my daughter to fish and hopefully someday she and her husband will teach their kids.

I caught this 5 1/4 lb bass on a jointed minnow at about 9:00 in the morning.

My family and I love to spend time together at our farm. I can't think of a better way to spend time than with family.

I do all the work from a golf cart and my old wheelchair. I put green slime in the tires of to help prevent flat tires. That was a lesson learned the hard way.

I camouflaged the golf cart with cedar boughs and little blue-stem grass, and this year a friend of mine painted a digital camo pattern on it so wherever I stop the cart I'm pretty well hidden.

I fill feeders once a week. I build feeders out of 5" PVC pipe. They only hold 25 lbs. of corn. The deer, depending on how many come in, will empty it in a day or two. I don't really want to make them depend on the corn feeder I just want it to be one of the places they check. I have actually had doe's and yearlings watch me fill the feeder and then walk in before I even leave the area.

I use the golf cart a lot for getting around when I'm going to far to use my wheelchair. This picture was taken by one of the trail cameras I use to get wildlife photo's/

We were dragging Christmas trees out onto the ice, so that when the ice melted, the trees would drop into the water and make habitat for the fish. I looked toward the south end of the pond and saw these two bucks stuck together by the antlers and frozen in the ice. What a bad way to go.