Hunting partners, wetlands come and go

Star Tribune ^ | 9/27/02 | Dennis Anderson

[NormsRevenge]

He has a girlfriend, a hunting license and a gun, so Al Farmes, 87, will be happy Saturday no matter how the opening of the 2002 Minnesota duck season turns out.

Farmes has hunted ducks in Minnesota for nearly 70 years, missing a few season openers during that period to serve in the Navy, and missing a few more when he opted instead to tromp in the woods, stalking deer.

[NormsRevenge]

87 :-) and Still Ticking .

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sounds like a guy you'd like to know.

[Deguello]

He really knows how to spend his life. I hope that I will get to be that way when I am older.

[Hank Kerchief]

Many a man that can't direct you to a corner drugstore will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind. ---Finley Peter Dunne

This quote seems to fit very well. He's one of those nice guys that helps put over the environmentalist's programs that are destroying this country. Hope ya'll enjoy your swamps, and West Nile virus, and malaria, and dangue, and ducks, of course.

Hank

[NormsRevenge]

Is the world changing or is it just us? I grew up in the Mississippi Valley Flyway ... We lived with wetlands all around us. Waterfowl was plentiful.

I see this guy as a steward , not an envirowacko.

[Deguello]

I hope to still be hunting up to the point of being elderly. If I out survive my before she kills me, then may be a girl friend at that age will help things along. For the other aspect, I would rather see farmland than a shopping mall at my previous fishing hole.