Tree Planting

My father-in-law, Ernest Cook, and I finished planting some pine trees this morning on a little farm we have west of Texarkana. We had a crew plant about 16 acres last week, but ran out of trees before we got to the end. So Ernest got hold of a few more trees, and we finished it.

A lot of y'all have met Ernest at muzzleloading events over the years. We were muzzleloading buddies, shooting and hunting together, before I even knew that he had daughters. He has travelled with me to the CLA Show, Friendship, the old Tennessee Longhunters Rifle Frolic, the Western Rendezvous, the Eastern Rendezvous and lots of other places. We have muzzleloading hunted together in Arkansas going on 30 years and duck hunted in Texas and Arkansas countless times.

Ernest is a forester by trade and a man of many skills and much knowledge. He's also a top-flight camp cook. Just ask Joe Mills or Mike Lea, who enjoyed Ernest's culinary skills a few years ago at the Eastern.

Bill Scurlock