The hunt is on

Running:
Catching up a bit.  Thursday was an off day from running and a travel day.  My friend Wayne and I headed north to Bayfield to get ready for gun hunting.  I did make it out early Friday morning for an 8 mile run in 1:06:08.  If I don't get a deer soon this could be my last run for about 9 days.  Maybe I'll have to take a mid day break sometime in the middle of the week anyway.  9 days off is a long time.

Hunting:
Thursday when we arrived we made it out to the woods to finish getting the stands ready.  While we were doing that we saw a nice buck chasing a doe around.  Certainly looked promising along with all the sign we saw.  Opening morning of gun season is always like Christmas morning when you were a kid to me.  It is so exciting to be out there.  This opening day turned out to be one of my worst in a long time.  11 hours on stand and not a single deer.  The weather was fairly warm so it was easy to sit, but all that time with no action wears on you.  Sunday turned out similarly.  Only saw one deer that obviously had been spooked.  He quickly entered and exited my area without giving me a shot.  I never even got a good look to see if it were a buck or doe.  11 more hours in the same place with only one sighting.  At least part of the afternoon went OK as I listened to the Packer game while I was sitting there.  Time to make a change on Monday. 


Gardening:
Only thing happening here is we took some time to go to the Christmas tree field and cut a few.  We cut one for Wayne, my mom, a big one for the Rittenhouse Inn and one for me.  All of these were Concolor Fir's.  They are really beautiful trees.  They have a different kind of smell to them, actually kind of citrus like and are real blue like a blue spruce except they have long soft needles.  I'll post a picture at some later time.