sunrise in a small country town
You know you live on the back side of nowhere when every couple of years the town grants in-city hunting licences. This is one of those years. We have a lot of area that is technically 'in-city', but which is, in fact, out in the country. Like the river bottom, which is less than half a mile from my house. And you can tell it's a holiday week, with a lot of people off. The river bottom is echoing this morning with the boom! of shotguns*, and faintly, the barking of dogs on the trail. By 10:00, the parking lot at Dail's (actually a True Value hardware store, but mostly, the local hunting stuff store) will be full of people, dogs in truck boxes, and deer carcasses, waiting for the F&G officer to certify their tags.
Mmm, venison roast... Too bad I don't know any hunters personally.
*There is no rifle hunting--for anything--in Virginia east of the I95 corridor-too many people too close.
Mmm, venison roast... Too bad I don't know any hunters personally.
*There is no rifle hunting--for anything--in Virginia east of the I95 corridor-too many people too close.