Feed and Firearms

Welcome to the musings of a car bound road warrior. In my travels up Interstate 69 through a great mix of livestock and grain farms it was hard to believe I was only 60 miles from the north suburbs of a major metropolitan complex. In between cell phone calls about any number of crises, concerns and dilemmas, the time is passed reading billboards. One struck me as indicative of rural America, the way most of our country's real estate is used and most of her people live their lives. It was for a Feed store, but at first it seemed like a restaurant. Sort of like "Eat at Joes" for cattle. They had feed, pet supplies, sundries and, of course, firearms (with the assumption they have items to feed the firearms). If you are from a place where even some of the girls take off a week of school at the start of deer season, this is extremely logical. Let me walk the rest of you all through it real quick. The stores is generally 50 or miles from the farm, farm critters eat a lot more than your Rotweiler. When you have to get supplies, you want to be efficient. When you have 200 acres, you also need to help control the populations of certain wild life including some tasty, edible ones. There you go, feed and firearms. If you don't get this and don't like guns, good, stay in the city where the police carry them for you. However, keep your opinions out of our farms.