Fathers’ Day Surprise

[Stan Hillis]

Great cover, Jack. Thanks for sharing it with us.

If that is the shot pattern on the end of the building, under the hawk and chicken, he sure missed badly! I'd say his gun has way to much drop for hawk killin'.

And, what in the heck is that in the background, on something like a sawhorse, that appears to be five or six canisters leaning outward?

[ArtS]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

Great cover, Jack. Thanks for sharing it with us.

If that is the shot pattern on the end of the building, under the hawk and chicken, he sure missed badly! I'd say his gun has way to much drop for hawk killin'.

And, what in the heck is that in the background, on something like a sawhorse, that appears to be five or six canisters leaning outward?

I think if you look closely, the building is his greenhouse, and he has shot the glass out. It looks like you can make out the inner frames and some plants through the opening.

I am 72 and can remember as a kid in Eastern KY dairy farmers sitting milk cans beside the road every morning for the dairy truck to come by and pick up. These were small farms where they milked by hand. There were always several of the large cans and one or two 2 or 3 gallon cream cans. Just a few years later in the early 60's the state required refrigerated milk tanks. My Dad (a local builder) built several of the milk houses for the few big dairies that stayed in business. The switch to large farms, automated milkers and chilled milk tanks, and the disappearance of local milk trucks with glass bottles all seemed to occur at the same time here.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

Great cover, Jack. Thanks for sharing it with us.

If that is the shot pattern on the end of the building, under the hawk and chicken, he sure missed badly! I'd say his gun has way to much drop for hawk killin'.

And, what in the heck is that in the background, on something like a sawhorse, that appears to be five or six canisters leaning outward?

Looks like the old feller will be replacing some glass in his greenhouse!!

[Michael D Hankinson]

I grew up on a little dairy farm in West Michigan in the 40s and 50s. Milked those cows by hand till I joined the Army in 1961. My first shotgun was a single shot 20Ga Savage Hammerless. I would be milking a cow, watch a Ring Neck fly into our pasture the creek flowed through. Finish that cowm grab the shotgun and go after the Phesant. We had both 5 and 10 Gallon cans which we put in a cooling tnk. Best of all a few times each summer we might get a watermelon and cool it down in the milk tank. Nothing better after hauling hay than a slice of cold melon. No RST shells then, Blue Peters were my go to #5s.