On the eve of another Texomaland duck season, memories of long ago retrievers, mallards, and Grayson County peanut fields and surrounding waters fill the mind of Herald Democrat outdoor writer Lynn Burkhead this week. Those duck hunting times are now gone, as are the peanut fields, some of the people, and some of the dogs, but the greenhead rich memories of those years in the 1980s and 1990s still bring a smile many years later. Lynn Burkhead / For The Herald Democrat
Driving west to the Sadler area for a funeral the other day, it was impossible to not reminisce about what once had been. The man…