Hello Folks,
This morning was the start of rifle season (as most of you know). Some of you rifle hunters may have heard this morning, what might have sounded like a huge herd of deer…(or maybe elephants escaped from the circus?). That was my Dad and I, getting up to our stand…or rather myself :)
The night started off rather uneventfully. I got into six layers of clothing. (You may have noted that I did not start this dialogue with waking up…that comes later). I went into the kitchen and added to my bulk coat, a hat and boots. When we were almost to the hill (in our backyard), I found out that I had not brought any bullets! I ran inside and got them. Gratefully the doors had not been locked!
We then made our way up to the stand. We were quiet...
THEN we got to our stand. Someone had taken off a band that held the ladder in place~ We climbed up and got situated. I dropped a 30 something dollar book from Lamplighter: Prisoners Of the Sea. When we finally settled down I realized (a little to late) that I had forgotten to get my glasses! I wouldn’t be able to see a deer unless it was within, maybe 35-40 yds. ~ Well there was really nothing I could do …so I tried to forget about it, and thought instead of the book… that was on the ground beneath the stand.
~About an hour later~
I am finally awake (for real this time)! I think the weather had something to do with this…
~Around thirty min later~
Waiting for the sun to come warm me up… I talk to papa about his different deer hunting adventures…I wonder if I will ever have any stories half as exciting…sun is coming up over the hill.
~About two hours later~
The sun is really taking its time…We don’t hear any deer…drifting in and out of sleep…
~Around thirty min later~
Enjoying the outdoors…Uncle Eddie calls and says he is going to come over and walk for us…Sun is really helping the temperature…
~Another thirty min later~
Uncle Eddie arrives…get out of the stand…I get my book (undamaged!)…we depart…about a 1/3 of a mile into the brush I realize I don’t have my book! I must have dropped it! Walk back looking for it…found it! …walk towards home …we get home!!!!!
~Awhile later~
I set down to write…
THE END
Does anyone have an little adventure to share?
Would any of you deer readers like to come hunting with me?
Good luck hunters and huntress~
Until next time ~ Yours Truly,
The Deer Huntress
7 comments:
Very exciting, Zoe! It sounds like you had a lot of fun, despite the forgetting glasses, dropping books, and not seeing any deer. :D
WOW!!! What an adventure!!!
To bad you didn't see any deer.
haha, I found out later that it was my cousins book~ (looked just like ours!)
Maybe there were deer and you just couldn't see them? ......I think they were reading your book.
Very well written adventure...kept me on the edge of my seat waiting to read the end of the story.
Love ya,
The farmer's wife
LOL Zoe!! :D And you were wondering if you would ever have any stories half as exciting to tell!? hahahahaaa!! That was funny!!!! :D
What makes it even better is that you found out it was your cousins' book! Sounds like one crazy day! ;o)
By the way, (as you already know) I went hunting on Monday.. But I didn't see anyting either! And I wasn't exactly bundled up like I should have been! I just had a short sleeve shirt on with a light jacket over top! I was freezing! lol And as the minutes drifted by my mind started playing tricks on me! Three times I thought I saw a deer but it was either a log or just shrubbery :P I think the cold weather was getting to me! (Along with the extreme excitement of shooting a deer for the first time!) I kept imagining myself leaving the woods with a huge buck with like 10 points! And now that I think of it it's like,"Wow, that was my first hunt and I imagine myself getting a "monster" buck!" hahaha! It's probably good I didn't see a lot of deer or I probably would have went crazy trying to shoot ALL of them! lol jk :)
Anyways, I loved your adventure! I got a good laugh! :)
OH, Zoe. You're funny. :D (In a good way.)I've gone hunting with my Dad - but he always took care of the bullets and the gun. :D
Enjoyed your story, Zoe. Hope you get a deer. You always hear the BIG stories when the hunters come home but they never mention how much PATIENCE one has to have. I don't think huntings for me!
Love, Aunt Eliz
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