Fall Season, 2006

I notice my postings last fall were nil. However, this merely indicates that I was spending more time than ever in the woods.

I bought one of those camouflaged blinds, kind of like a pup tent. For about three weeks I used it at home, back of the house, and set it up near the mine shaft, where I could see up into the area where the hardwoods had been cut about two years ago. Basically, except for that one day when it was snowing and I jumped two deer, and the other time that I spooked another, had him in my sights for about ten minutes waiting for horns to grow until a shower of big flakes gave it the opportunity to mysteriously vanish, I didn't see anything except a tribe of crows that were interrupted by several turkeys that were browsing. About an hour later, when I walked back down to the house, they were roosting in the pine trees right back of the house; they heard me, got spooked, and all of them flew off in the dark over towards the Banner House amidst a lot of panic and noise. Stupid turkeys.

Therefore, I decided to try my luck over at camp. Since Charlie (Bigfoot) had his foot in a cast, I knew that he wasn't likely to try anything like take us down to the line near Johnston's Camp where he shot his big buck last year. That is an entire different story, but he had to go looking for it the next day and was almost arrested back of Camp Jeanne D'Arc.

So I set my tent up near his treestand, basically for lack of a better place, but also because there were a lot of buck rubbings in that area. Therefore I spent the rest of the season looking out of my tent, but to no avail.

Charlie's foot finally healed. However, he showed up at camp this spring with his other foot in a cast.