Greg, Rob, and all the many others,
Thanks to everyone for all the well-wishes for all the hunters working the OK
fireball. I also want to give a special thanks to Rob Matson for his work with
the radar data. And, Greg, as you mentioned, even though we three decided to
return home tonight (hey, its only a 5 hr drive from my home) without any
stones in hand, we DID have a fun time. It was great seeing old friends again
such as Todd, Dave, Jack, Karl and of course, the "safe-at-home" Mike and
Robert. ( Those are the only hunters I ran into personally.) A special thanks
to Todd and Robert for the "six-pack-of-refreshments" for my son Rob, and my
hunting partner,Jerry and me!
Yesterday was a perfect meteorite hunting day, with beautiful, short-sleeve
weather and very nice landowners who graciously let us hunt every piece of land
we asked about. Not one turn down. One landowner gave us permission to hunt her
pasture, but warned us of the 3 horses on it, saying she wouldn't want them to
kick us ( we wouldn't have wanted them too, either ;-) We told her we would
keep or eyes on them ( but we really thought they wouldn't be a problem.) We
were wrong. As we started our hunt, on the FAR side of the pasture from them,
they all 3 came charging over toward us. They were rearing their heads up and
down, running quickly right up next to us off-and-on again and again, and even
kicking up their hind legs very close to us. Fortunately, since we had just
started our hunt, we were still close to the fence line, so we were able to
quickly make our way to a gate and scramble over it out of the pasture. The
horses kept up their threatening
charges and kicking as we made our way down the length of the fence to our
car. If we had stayed in the pasture, I do believe they would have ended up
kicking us.
We awoke to very different weather conditions this morning. Completely cloudy
skies, a very light and brief mist/drizzle, and worst of all, a BITTER cold
North wind. The air temp was 41 F, but the wind chill had to be near freezing.
The GREAT majority of fields in the area, perhaps 70-90%(???), are covered in
6-inch tall winter wheat. That was very disappointing to see, and wiped out a
huge portion of any potential strewnfield.
To all those still in the area giving it their all, the absolute BEST of
luck in finding pieces!
Sincerely,
Robert Woolard
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