CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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Discove r Cit yV iewN C.co m's fre s h up d ate d loo k ! | 7 appetite. And gained five pounds, I bet – better than 10 percent of her body weight. On this last day of Summer though, we were not ready to eat. We walked out of the garage together into the gray dawn. We went down the driveway toward yesterday's flood. When we got to the place where the water blocked our way, I stopped and asked her what she wanted to do. She tacked to starboard into the short pines, paid her respects to the straw, and as I turned around to go shower and get ready for my day, she trotted off toward the corn. Last spring, I had decided that I was going into the corn business. We have an acre field that was once a horse pasture. e coastal Bermuda still dominated, but the sow thistle and the Johnsongrass were invading more every year. So rather than be burdened by mowing it, I started tilling it with the Kubota last February. By late April, I had a fairly plausible-looking little plot of farmland. I do not have a planter, so I just hooked up a whirly- gig to my PTO and broadcast a 50-pound bag of corn evenly through the patch. Here it was nearly a year later, and there was still enough corn to feed a family of deer, a crowd of squirrels, gobs of birds, a few rabbits, and God knows how many mice. e rabbits and mice attracted a couple of red foxes. Even a man can smell a fox. It is an unmistakable smell. Not pleasant, but not unpleasant either, not unpleasant the way a skunk is. So those foxes mousing in the corn by night became the primary athletic pursuit of my old bird dog in what would be the final year of her life. She was deaf and she was blind – but she could still smell. And she could dang sure smell a red fox. FIRE, WATER & STORM DAMAGE REPAIR Recognized as one of the top Restoration Contractors in the U.S. Serving Southeastern North Carolina with offices in Wilmington, Fayetteville and Raleigh. 24/7 Emergency Service Insurance Claims Specialists Full Service Restoration and Renovation Locally Owned and Operated Since 1981 910.485.6738 TeamHighland.com Visit the Highland Design Center located at 1409 Clinton Road in Fayetteville. Highland offers a wide variety of indoor and outdoor cabinets, flooring, countertops, and wall coverings. 910.988.0097 5239 Yadkin Road Fayetteville, NC 28303 www.therockguns.com THE ROCK Guns & Accessories • Custom Builds • Buy/Sell/Trade • Laser Engraving • In-House Gunsmith and more!