Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas one and all ! It has been a week since my last post. How have you been ? Well and Happy ! Good deal.... As all of you I have been keeping busy with preparations for the holiday get together(s). Last Monday, December 18th, I got to help render my first deer. My neighbor who has loaned me the gun I have been using asked me to assist him in dressing his last deer of the season. What wasn't expected is he gave me the proceeds of the effort. Talk about being happy. Boy ! What a very nice Christmas present. I told him that I would help him render all of his "take" next year. He is a sure shot. Who knows maybe I will be too come the next season ! ; ) My husband and I will be off to North Dakota for a family visit come the New Year's weekend if the weather isn't to bad...

Wouldn't you know it !

Bless their little hearts...I wasn't ready to go outside at 7:00 this morning. There wasn't any activity. It is amazing how the deer multiplied in the field out northwest of the house. Pretty soon it seemed they were appearing out of nowhere. The boundaries started expand to include our backyard to the south and to the immediate east of our home.(where they are seen very frequently) Everything was all said and done by 7:20 - the deer running to the south, west, and east. Are you acquainted with the feeling of excitement at the expectation of being able to accomplish something you set out to do ? Then the next emotion that comes when your rush of hope is dashed...You got it! There wasn't a culmination of deer slug to to deer. Then the realization comes that time is running out. Family activities took up the day. Time has run out for this season, without the two landowner shotgun deer tags being attached to an intended target....Now, I can concentrate on getting those wily pheasants that keep evading me.