Minnesota!

[scandiafowl]

Goodmorning: KlopKlop Rhetts lalaland duluthralphie coffee 1st scandiafowl We are definitely peak colors. Nothing like an overcast day to let you see the glow. Love it and have been taking pictures today. Sunny days I get too much shadow. Anyways here's some photos coming: I only have a few sugar maples in the yard unfortunately and this is the best one. Every year I tell myself I should plant or transplant more in our yard. The coop this morning. Buckeye having a drink. The chicken yard. Watch your step! The Girls coming up the hill. Photo-Bomb by Daisy the Buckeye. Sylvia in her feathers ready for winter. She molts and finishes in the summer. She's giving me eggs now as you can tell by her comb and wattles. Road construction has my usual commute closed off. So I know a sneaky way that shortens the detour a bit. It's a single lane road...but is it ever beautiful this morning. Ralphie: fun to see your Gangster Turkey on the deck. His tail is a fright. Poor thing. Life with the other gangster bachelors is a rough one I suppose. Pretty cool. Watch him so he doesn't give your pets cooties.

Thank you for sharing such wonderful photos of your world. Much more fun than coyote killing.

 

[duluthralphie]

I didn't think that traffic court had a jury... I've never been in one though

If a person contest a ticket that is a misdemeanor and not a petty misdemeanor a person is entitled to a 6 person jury in Minnesota.

 

[duluthralphie]

Not speaking from experience or anything but traffic tickets are paid on line. You don't get to see anyone but the officer who gave you the ticket. Nothing fun and exciting, no court just click and pay.

You are pleading guilty when you click and pay. Show up in court, plead not guilty and you can see lots of people.

 

[scandiafowl]

You are pleading guilty when you click and pay. Show up in court, plead not guilty and you can see lots of people.

I met with the prosecutor before the hearing and pled the fine down.
He clocked me while I was passing someone.
How can I help it that my car is fast?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

And get scoffed at by the judge...

My husband fought a "rolling through a stop sign" once. He knows for a fact he stopped. Had a witness in the car. The judge told him he was some kind of joker even pleading innocent to the charge. The speeding and petty midemeanor stuff is just scoffed at.

Hey-Ya @Minniechickmama .

 

[duluthralphie]

I met with the prosecutor before the hearing and pled the fine down.
He clocked me while I was passing someone.
How can I help it that my car is fast?

LOL sure.

Normally the way you slow down a faster car is not press as hard on the right hand foot pedal.

 

[duluthralphie]

And get scoffed at by the judge...

My husband fought a "rolling through a stop sign" once. He knows for a fact he stopped. Had a witness in the car. The judge told him he was some kind of joker even pleading innocent to the charge. The speeding and petty midemeanor stuff is just scoffed at.

Hey-Ya @Minniechickmama .

Judge Hass? Cass County?

 

[Bogtown Chick]

No this was back during our short stint when we lived in South Haven and Hubby commuted to Brooklyn Park for work. He was in Osseo at the time I believe when he got the ticket. So some no name judge down there.

Judge Haas is acquainted with my Dad though.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Minnesota is still at #9. Pekin ducks at #10. Phew.

 

[duluthralphie]

No this was back during our short stint when we lived in South Haven and Hubby commuted to Brooklyn Park for work. He was in Osseo at the time I believe when he got the ticket. So some no name judge down there.

Judge Haas is acquainted with my Dad though.

Dang I was trying to remember which way he spelled it. I almost spelled it Haas then thought it was wrong.. dumb me. I saw him a couple times 35 years ago. Seemed like a nice guy.