I was happy for the family that got $1500 per acre. That farm has been in their family since the early 1930s and they've worked their knuckles off on the place all those years, runninga dairy farm.

The other feller is a shifty littlerascal, gets along with hardly anyone around there, although he's always let me hunt onhis land. Sold him some of our hay last year, but told him he couldn't get the bales up next to the woods, until the ground hardened up some. Was only joking, but he waited until it froze again before bringing them off the hill.

His son killed his first buck on my property years ago when he was 13, now the kid is grown up and has done two tours in Iraq. Guess daddyrecalls his kid could hunt on us, so still returns the favor?