Ellen's. Early!
"Morning guys, I was out early photographing....how you all doing?"
My days were spent either out shooting, in Ellen's or at the camera shop trying to sell stuff to any victims that came along. By far the best part of the day was spent behind the camera, next was Ellen's and lastly ... working.
"I was over in Queen Anne's County looking at the crops this morning. I needed some rural images for a magazine request and got a bunch of images."
Pat.."And you call that working?"
"Hey each to his own. The only work you did as a school principle was to paddle a few miscreants. Remember those days Pat? Got some respect from those kids too...didn't ya?"
"Bobby, I know you got some land in farming and all those humongous chicken houses. How's the drought effecting you?"
"It's tough out there...the worse anyone around here's seen"
Skip .. "This is what the corn should look like right now with a little water on it"
"It's nation wide. Sonny, you couldn't even hide in today's corn fields to catch a poacher" Bobby said to the retired Natural Resources officer turned court jester.
Sonny .. "Probably just stay in the truck like always. Easier to nap that way."
Skip .. "Yeah, well this is what I found this morning."
"And that makes the corn look like this instead of what it should.
You guys know I used to work in the Commodity field, brokered futures to the trade and speculators alike. I haven't looked at prices in a lot of years, but can remember the hyper inflation of the 80's and 90's and it looks like we got that coming again. I googled the charts this morning. Now I know you guys think that google is a sound your grand kids make, but I have evolved....unlike you guys. It's called the Internet and has a whole lot more "Real" information than this table.
The statistical liars in Washington keep telling us that inflation is under control. But I don't know. Corn is up from $5 a bushel to $8 since June. Same way with wheat and soybeans, but up about 30% since then. All that stuff is going to make everything else a lot more expensive. And just not chickens, cattle and hogs. Man, just go and look in the supermarket. Whew! Those prices are outrageous! We better go an butcher a whole bunch of those chickens your raising Bobby!"
"Sure, lets all go out this afternoon and get us some. But, its gonna cost you fellas. Life's good twenty five cents at a time." Said the self made millionaire who did it all on his own.
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