Deer Camp

A few clues to tell you that it's deer hunting season around these parts:

• Blaze orange everywhere
• Da Yoopers are singing Second Week of Deer Camp on the radio
• Hunting widow sales at local stores
• You drive by the local restaurant and Bambi is dead on the roof of someone's Suburban

• Waking up to the sound of gunshots
• Trucks outnumber cars 2-1 
• The bar parking lots are full each evening
• Trucks and cars parked in the roadway ditches close to their hunting grounds
• More men in town than usual and all of them are wearing the above mentioned blaze orange
• Lots of hunting widows in church on Sunday

Dan shot a doe last Saturday. He's not used to the way hunting is done around here. In Colorado he elk hunted with his brothers-in-law every year and there wasn't much sitting around except in the evenings while eating supper. They would walk and walk in the mountains looking for the elk herds.

Here hunting for white tail deer is done in a deer stand. Lots of sitting and waiting and getting cold because of the sitting and waiting. Dan sat in a chair 15 -20 ft off the ground up a tree. He said sitting up there swaying in the breeze is a bit strange. I read in the paper the other day that a man died because he fell out of his stand and his gun accidentally discharged. I guess there is a safety strap that goes around you while your up the tree and he must have forgotten to use his. 

Some of the deer stands are plush. Heated and more. I remember a friend telling me that her husband's deer stand was behind their house and she could see him out there when he was hunting. She said that sometimes he was upright and other times he was not visible because he was napping. Apparently, he had a couch in his. It was his man cave on stilts. :)

Shelby and I may give it a try next season. Maybe we can find one of those heated deer stands to hunt out of. We could bring our scrap booking and card making stuff, and our iPods so we could listen to music. We could bond over hot cocoa and talk about all kinds of things. Scratch that, we will leave the hunting to the boys and just go on a girls weekend sometime!