Supplies of venison Dangerously low!!!!

As the 2010 deer season progresses it is obvious that the weather is NO going to cooperate. The first weekend was perfect temperatures were cool and the deer were moving like crazy. Now it seems that mother nature throws us that proverbial curve ball. As weather approaches the 70's and even 80's it is very hard to shoot and process a deer before it spoils. My stashes of venison are dwindling rapidly. And now I have another hurdle to overcome; they are LOGGING the woods where I hunt, now anyone who hunts these wise animals knows that it doesn't take much to change their travel habits. My only hope is that some of them stick around. My family DEPENDS on me getting a good harvest every year to offset the cost of buying meat from the store, and besides that the jerky and snack stick are loved by my entire family!!! God Bless...... LUMPY

Good for this year

Well I have dodged a bullet so far for this year!!!! (whew) I can continue to hunt. Now if I can find the time. It seems that every year that I do this I find less and less time to get away. Why cant we all be independently wealthy and not have to work??? Oh yeah because Govntment keeps raising taxes, which means we have to work more to make ends meet!!! Well thats it for now need to take care of a few things and run home real quick!!! see u all in the funnies!!!  LUMPY

Just my LUCK!!!!!

Well it sounds as though I may not have anything further to blog about??? I was informed this morning that the gentleman that owns the woods where I hunt may not be letting me hunt there anymore? I REALLY hope this is not the case. Up until I married my wife it had been about 7 years since I had a place to hunt, The property that I used to hunt with my dad was taken away from us when the property owner fell off his rocker and kicked us out. He not only kicked us out but went and destroyed the stands we had set up!!!! It seems as though anymore that I am destined to not have anywhere to hunt.

People who know me understand that this is my release; it completes me as a person. To not be able to hunt and enjoy God's awesome creations I am just another zombie in life!!!! Unfortunately I have no control over these matters. Maybe someday I will win the lottery and have a place of my own to do as I please with???? Hopefully I will be able to finish out the season @ my present location, but if not all the time and MONEY that I have spent will vbe out the window. Well that is it for now, hoopefully my nxt post will be more upbeat???
LUMPY

My first post!!!!

Sitting in my stand last night I realized that I was just a small speck in the woods! There was so much going on that I missed an opportunity to take a nice doe. I have been hunting for around 24 years now and I have had many experiences and thoughts while sitting in my stand, but last night stood out! I had called in a small buck with what I feel is the BEST deer call on the market (more on that later), while enjoying watching him putter around sucking up acorns like a Hoover I noticed a couple of does to the east, then 2 more (smaller), I watched all of them for about an hour, it was AWESOME.Then my thoughts turned to God and most of all MY DAD!! If not for God I wouldnt be here enjoying all this beauty and wonder, the awesomness of it almost brought me to tears!!!!! Then i started reflecting on the times I have had in the field my DAD. He started taking us hunting when I was 14, I bought my very first gun at 15, he taught us everything!!!! And even at times he would take from his own hunting experiences to help us fill our own experiences, building stands, scouting locations and the multitude of other things that we did together. Then I heard a branch snap very close to my stand, out of my thoughts and back to hunting I realized that while I was "daydreaming" that a deer had snuck up on me, unfortunately when I slowly turned to see she BUSTED me, all I could do was laugh. I just hope that one day me and my children will have some of the same experiences that me and MY dad have had.