Some funny pics

I took these pictures yesterday and thought you would get a kick out of them.  The first 3 are of my son Wes after a LONG hard day on the farm.  We haven't had much rain and the fields are very dry and dusty.  He was in a closed cab tractor, but the air wasn't working so he had to open the windows as it was about 85* yesterday!  He was running the disk ( the thing that tills the ground getting it ready for summer planting)  He wasn't too happy with his dad for giving him that dirty job without an airconditioned tractor.  He told me that his "boogers" were gonna be black for a week with all the dust he breathed in!  That's my boy!

The last 2 pictures are of our "lost and found" dog.  Living in a large farming community we have lots of problems with hogs.  So, the local farmers invite their "hog hunting buddies" to come in a hunt them.  Well, for those of you not familiar with hog hunting, they don't use guns to hunt them.  They use "hog dogs".  If you let them loose they will track and grab the hogs and then you (not me!) come in and tie the hog up (youv'e heard of "hog-tying"), haul it off and then do whatever with it.  Well, sometimes the dogs get so deep in the woods that they get lost and then wind up dirty and hungry at Robert's farm a day or two later.  Robert (being the kind hearted soul that he is) brings them home and feeds them until he can find out who they belong to.  Well, in this picture you can see that "Pepper" (Betsy named him) is making himself right at home here. Robert has been unsuccessful at finding his owner, but I don't think Pepper minds too much.  He wasn't shy about coming right on into the house and laying down on the kitchen floor.  So now,whenever we open the back door, he just waltzes right it and finds a place to curl up!  He has been here for over a week now and has become quite the house dog!  Robert says that he's probably ruined for hog hunting now. LOL.  That's ok, we love him and since we already have 5 other dogs (all very jealous that he gets to come inside!) what's one more.  He is actually a pure bred Catahoula Curr (sp?)  We have a female Catahoula that is about 1 year old. It isn't a registered breed, but around here they fetch about $75 a piece for puppies since this is a prime hog hunting area. So, who knows.  He may be a part of our family now. (Mom, it's ok.  I know you are probably groaning about now, but it's really ok) My mom thinks we have too many animals.  We do.  Well speaking of animals, we haven't lost a single chicken since letting them run loose.  And the pig is in "hog heaven".  By the way, don't worry about Chicklet.  Pepper has can see her from a distance all day long,  he couldn't get to her if he wanted to, but he hasn't shown any intrest in her at all.  Well, I am going to run now.  Now that the saga of the "love triangle" has died down I can get back to writing about "normal" stuff that goes on around here.  Bye y'all!