We made a flying trip today

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Not in an airplane - but in the car. We drove down to the deer lease (the old one that is 2 1/2 hours away) to fill up the feeders. All went well till we got to the last of 3 feeders.

The lid had blown off and so the feeder was full of wet, moldy, rotten, stinky corn. Oh, and the feeder is a 55 gallon drum, on legs, so the top is about 10 feet off the ground. So here I am, standing on the TOP of a ladder, with a 1 lb. coffee can, scooping 200 lbs of wet, moldy, rotten, stinky - and sometimes hard as concrete, corn. As you can imagine, that was not a fun nor easy job! I got it out almost down to the bottom, but then I couldn't reach the bottom (I'm only 5'2" tall), so Gary had to scoop out the last little bit. Some of it was so hard that I had to chop it with an axe - so much fun!

We thought the timer and battery would be ruined because water had run down through the barrel and into the box that held them, but they were OK - so we filled it back up with non-rotten corn and hopefully, the lid will not blow off again. Gary said that had only happened to him one other time in the past 20 years!

After 4 hours of FUN, we got in the truck and drove home again! WHEW! I'm GLAD to be home!!!