10/26/2026
Hunting in the morning. Hospital in the night -->
Yesterday started with a 5 am alarm to take our middle girl Charlotte deer hunting. She wanted to try to fill her youth tag on the last day of Iowas early muzzleloader season. We didn't see any deer but she had fun. We enjoyed seeing a BUNCH of wood ducks, listening to the beaver 🦫 playing in the water and watching the sun come up over the farm.
After I took her back I figured maybe I best work on my old deer blind if we were going to hunt Iowa's remaining deer seasons ❄️. I haven't touched it in 4 or 5 years - the door is shot, and after I pulled it out of the weeds one of the tires went down. 🛞💨
I dropped the tire off at a repair shop and went back to the farm where I sorted 363 fat hogs that I will load tonight at 1:30 & 2:30 AM 🥱
Just as I was about finished sorting my brother called me and told me Dad was headed to the ER. Kidney stones, he thought.
He thought correctly. That landed him in an ambulance to Omaha around 9 PM. I grabbed a bite of supper, a bag, and a bag for him.
Turns out he has a 4mm stone on his left side and one stone that is 15mm (.59"!!!) On his right side along with a collection of stones about AN INCH AND A HALF in diameter on the right side! Poor dude!
I slept on the floor in his room most of the night and one of my sisters "slept" in the world's most uncomfortable recliners ever. They were going to do surgery early in the morning, then early in the afternoon, then at 4, now at 8 tonight.
I came home, and am currently harvesting corn with my brother, and am oh so looking forward to loading those hogs in the middle of the night. 🐖
Is it pheasant season yet?
