Just A Note

A brief hello ~~

    My mother is safely back home in Kentucky.  She had a great one-month visit in Florida but was getting very, very homesick.  She and my sister got in last night.  My sister will leave for home on Saturday.

    Eler Beth got not one, but two -- count'em, two! -- does this morning!  She has been walking on air all day.  Thomas said he has never seen anyone come down a tree (with a climbing stand, no less) as fast as she did, a big grin on her face the whole time.  The first doe field dressed at 150 lbs., and the second at about 120 lbs.  This is only her second year hunting; these are her first deer.  Pictures will be coming.

    They went hunting Saturday evening but didn't see anything until they were leaving their area.  They went again on Sunday evening, and she had one in her sights.  But it was just coming on to dusk, and although she was only about 50 yards away she wasn't sure she could get a kill shot.  Thomas told me later that she probably could have gotten it, but we were proud of her for making a very responsible decision.  It was not only dusk, but there were a few branches between her and the deer.  This morning, though, it was as if the two does posed for her.

Tags: Deer Hunting