Will give this a try--just received an e-mail from the President of ICBA on the outlook for the housing market and economy for the next couple of years, so will try to do something a little more pleasant. Couple inches of snow here, but to get to 40 tommorow--still seeing lots of pheasants, but have most run off our land from hunting pressure--killed somewhere around 900 so far this fall, should get a few more before the end of the season though. Deer hunting a big success for us also as Katie shot her own and I did also--nothing like Barry's or David's, but still had lots of fun. Planning on buying some duck hunting land up in North Dakota ---as a high school friend said, cannot have too much as am nearing retirement age. Don Threadgold, Fedora, SD,-so of Robert & Doris---have a small picture of Oscar Threadgold in the cremery that he operated here in Artesian, across the street from the present bank building where I work. Also while scanning the 1924 Artesian Commonwelth newspaper, saw where Oscar had a farm sale in the fall of '24 on his farm on the Miner-Sanborn County line about 5 miles south of now Hwy 34.