End of Junior Year: Summer 2009

I have a lot of things going on for me right now as I finish up my junior of high school and look forward to summer and my senior year. This summer I will be tied down by football, but I’m not too worried with this as I’m really looking forward to football next fall. As I think Kennedy will have a great team and has some potential as being 4A state champions. This summer I’m completely ready to devote myself wholeheartedly to the last leg of our off-season training and workouts as this will determine how well I will play and have the ability to pick up a scholarship.

However more at present on my mind rest my GPA, fishing, hunting, my Harley, and the small two week window of mushroom hunting. I love to hunt mushrooms and the rewards for doing so are great. As they both taste delicious and are worth a great deal of money when they are sold to those city dwellers that don’t know how to find their own or more likely don’t care to. My friends Matt and Spencer take an annual trip each year to Wickiup Hill Nature Center to go in chase of the sometimes elusive morel mushroom. There aren’t many elm trees there, but if you know where to look and have a couple of extra hours to waste it is easy enough to find a super worth of mushrooms. As we have in the past always ended up with a grocery bagful of fresh morels. Otherwise, during the fourth season when I have concluded another hunt by spooking the turkeys or concluded in mind that there are now in Iowa I find myself in a set of woods that are chuck- full of morel mushrooms and I soon run out of room to carry them all in. I think without a doubt that Southern Iowa is one of the major hotspots in America for finding wild morels.

My average summer day will consist of football in the morning, work in the day, and then in my free time trying to relax and have my body recover before tomorrow or hanging with my friends. I again have the same summer job that I have had for the last two, going on three years, and this is a great job for me. As my employers are super flexible with hours, I get great pay for a 17 year old, and there is a wide variety of work for me to do. Which ranges from cutting hay, mowing there near two acre lawn, or taking calls for their business, if I’m ever bored with a particular job as soon as I get it down I get to do something different.