We had excitement in the neighborhood today.

[Farmer Kitty]

One of the "neighbors" decide to burn her rubish this afternoon. We are not allowed to burn until evening plus it was windy. She was also burning in a pile right next to the woods. The fire got away from her. It was blowing away from us but, the DNR plane that flies over the fires and monitors them crashed on it's 4th path around. The pilot died. I called the TV station and they already new about it but, wanted to know how close I was to it. When I told them about 3/4 mile they asked if I could take pics from however close I was allowed to get and send them in. I wasn't able to see the plane as the field has a small hill in it and the darn hill was in the way. They have them on their web page with my name. I'll post them below as they are small on their page plus, I prefer not to connect names.

These are taken from the corner they had the road blocked off at.

These are taken from the side road across the field that the plane is down in.

Their crew arrived last night and did their footage/pics and interviews. They have replaced my pics with theirs so if you would like to read the story here is the link: http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/42694212.html

 

[Thewife]

That's sad.

We get a lot of low flying planes and the military flying over us, sometimes it looks like they just ain't gonna make it over the hills.

 

[Kute Kitten]

Scary! It was bad enough with a fire 3 miles away from us, 3/4 mile away is to close! I'm afraid of fire even! I hope to go to the mill with DF tomorrow, maybe I'll get to see how bad it was!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

That's sad.

We get a lot of low flying planes and the military flying over us, sometimes it looks like they just ain't gonna make it over the hills.

We have a bombing range not far from here and have a lot of low flying planes too. I've been in the fields and watched them swoop down after clearing the trees and then back up on the other side in order to clear the trees.

 

[Kute Kitten]

I've seen that! You would think they would just stay at one height, not many.

 

[Thewife]

From what I understand, the timber Co allows the military to train on their land that surrounds us!
Apparently, with all the millions of dollars they spend on all of their cool equipment, they can't seem to figure out that THIS IS A FARM! THERE IS A HOUSE DOWN HERE!
I was kicked by the milk cow years ago, when a helicopter flew too low! I have been woke up many times to the house shaking!

When the boy was young, one of their helicopters needed to land in our field. I think we ended up with 3 in the field? We sat there with the boy, just so he could watch the "GI Joes" work, he thought is was soo cool!
Now, he don't even remember it!

 

[Kute Kitten]

Too low if the house is shaking!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

Too low if the house is shaking!

It has happened here too.

 

[Kute Kitten]

When?

 

[Farmer Kitty]

When?

Not recent enogh for you to remember. They used to circle the buildings too.

It's real interesting to be out in the field and have the shadow of one of those big bombers come over you long before you hear them.