Wow! Wonderful imagery. :-) And I'm afraid I'm forced to concur that age lends to each of us being less of an exciting hunt for the huntress.

I've never had the stomach to go hunting with anyone before. Guns scare the $**t out of me, and I don't like killing. But I have wondered what it is people do on them. Now I know a little, at least.

Were the farmer and his family friends from the net or did you meet them otherwise?