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I keep meaning to catch up on my sleep but it seems maybe I never will...there's always something that prevents me from sleeping, and most likely once I have a family someday, i'll NEVER sleep. So i'm destined to always be tired I guess :( Well this weekend I had a good excuse, I was going nonstop and that included hours in the woods! Roger came Friday afternoon and met me at Gram's after work. We had a nice evening. WEnt to Ruby Tuesday for steak and it was SSOOO good! Watched a movie and eventually went to bed.
Got up semi-early and headed to Josh and Em's for the weekend. Chilled for the afternoon and the guys worked on a roofting job for a bit. Em and I went out for my first official hunting experience!:) We went up along this hill near JOsh's Grandparents house and Em set me up in a tree stand in a pine tree that wasn't too far off the ground. It was right at a big intersection of about 5 mowed trails. Em told me a lot of bucks have been seen cutting through them. She took a stand about 300 yards up one of the trails in front of me. We sat not quite 2 hours and for the first hour and a half, I saw nothing. It was a beautiful night, and a slight wind. At about 5:15 or so, I heard something behind me and a buck walked through the woods and crossed the path and kept going. Looked like he was on a doe trail, he was pretty intent. It was hard to tell how big he was, but I think he was a decent 4 pointer or so. I would have shot him if he came near me! ;) Then 5 minutes later, suddenly, I felt like I needed to stand up and get ready. Something was coming. It was crazy, but I could feel it and I was SO excited! Sure enough, two doe came out right where the buck did but they came towards me!!! In fact, they came UNDER my tree and actually stood looking RIGHT up at me several times! THey kept sniffing the air and looking up, so I think they knew I was there, yet they didn't know what to make of me. But they weren't scared at all. I was all ready to shoot, but they never quite got broadside of me to make a clean shot. Plus i'm still learning to gauge distances and I wasn't sure what was too far from the tree stand. And plus it was getting dark. Shortly it was too dark to see my pin so I couldn't take a shot. I was SO excited, my WHOLE body was shaking! I was worried that I wouldn't be able to pull back. But they hung around maybe 20 minutes, munching and looking right at me! It was amazing, I loved being so close and yet they really didn't know what I was! Well it got too dark and Emily came down from her stand so they ran away. But I was so happy to have that experience! We got back to find Roger got himself a buck and didn't know how big it was! So we waited and then went to trail it, found an easy blood trail and eventually found it and Josh shot at it to kill it quick. I guess he missed and it ran off. We waited, then crept and found it and Roger shot it in the head. Aaaand it got up and ran off. We waited, crept, and found it yet again bedded. So Roger crept and slit its throat. It's head went down, Roger turned towards us and we watched it get up like it was healthy and fine, and run off. It was so weird and crazy to watch. We found it by the edge of a pond, panting, but up! With its throat slit! It tried to go into the water and fell and Roger proceeded to drown it to FINALLY put it out of its misery!!!Which took forever cuz it kept struggling! IT was really crazy and slightly disturbing. The worst was watching it drown. Roger felt bad for me to see that. I hope I can make clean kills and not have that happen! I couldn't do that, Roger would have to...Well I WAS still proud of him, and he was so happy. That was his first deer with a bow! It was a 4 pointer with a pretty decent body and obviously an incredible will to live!
So that was a late night, but it was really interesting learning to blood trail. Well we were too tired to get up in the morning. I was dying to but my body protested so we slept till like 9ish and then Em saw a HUGE buck over in a field across from their house heading towards the woods. On a hot doe most likely. Shortly after that another huge buck came through! So we all flew about getting our gear and went out. And none of us saw those bucks but it was still fun to get out and try and stalk and call in those bucks. I'm learning a lot at least! :) That night Roger and I went out after a nasty thunderstorm. That was crazy for me since I hate storms, but I wanted to go so bad! We found a spot and the sun came out and it was AMAZING through the woods. We didn't stay long cuz Josh called to inform us of a tornadoe warning! We saw some fresh scrapes possibly from one of those two bucks, but otherwise saw one doe far off running. I enjoyed it though, I loved finally getting out! I'm not too sad I didn't get a deer, i'm just glad to have learned so much. Hopefully Roger will come next weekend and we'll hunt at home. There's LOTS of potential there too! :)
Roger left me this morning :( All day I just felt so lonely with him gone. Even tonight when my sister, brother and I watched a movie I felt so alone. Not just cuz Roger was gone, I guess I miss Houghton sometimes and all the people around and frisbee and friends down the hall, and doing crazy things late at night. Sometimes it sucks growing up. I miss long deep talks with friends. I miss being able to open up to people. I don't know. I feel so alone lately. And I get so down on myself and all I seem to think about are my faults. As I think more about marriage, I think more about all my faults and problems and the list seems to grow. But I don't feel like babbling about that again. I'm tired and should head to bed. Probably watch some more football cuz the Patriots are actually losing this one so far! ;) So that's all for now.
Got up semi-early and headed to Josh and Em's for the weekend. Chilled for the afternoon and the guys worked on a roofting job for a bit. Em and I went out for my first official hunting experience!:) We went up along this hill near JOsh's Grandparents house and Em set me up in a tree stand in a pine tree that wasn't too far off the ground. It was right at a big intersection of about 5 mowed trails. Em told me a lot of bucks have been seen cutting through them. She took a stand about 300 yards up one of the trails in front of me. We sat not quite 2 hours and for the first hour and a half, I saw nothing. It was a beautiful night, and a slight wind. At about 5:15 or so, I heard something behind me and a buck walked through the woods and crossed the path and kept going. Looked like he was on a doe trail, he was pretty intent. It was hard to tell how big he was, but I think he was a decent 4 pointer or so. I would have shot him if he came near me! ;) Then 5 minutes later, suddenly, I felt like I needed to stand up and get ready. Something was coming. It was crazy, but I could feel it and I was SO excited! Sure enough, two doe came out right where the buck did but they came towards me!!! In fact, they came UNDER my tree and actually stood looking RIGHT up at me several times! THey kept sniffing the air and looking up, so I think they knew I was there, yet they didn't know what to make of me. But they weren't scared at all. I was all ready to shoot, but they never quite got broadside of me to make a clean shot. Plus i'm still learning to gauge distances and I wasn't sure what was too far from the tree stand. And plus it was getting dark. Shortly it was too dark to see my pin so I couldn't take a shot. I was SO excited, my WHOLE body was shaking! I was worried that I wouldn't be able to pull back. But they hung around maybe 20 minutes, munching and looking right at me! It was amazing, I loved being so close and yet they really didn't know what I was! Well it got too dark and Emily came down from her stand so they ran away. But I was so happy to have that experience! We got back to find Roger got himself a buck and didn't know how big it was! So we waited and then went to trail it, found an easy blood trail and eventually found it and Josh shot at it to kill it quick. I guess he missed and it ran off. We waited, then crept and found it and Roger shot it in the head. Aaaand it got up and ran off. We waited, crept, and found it yet again bedded. So Roger crept and slit its throat. It's head went down, Roger turned towards us and we watched it get up like it was healthy and fine, and run off. It was so weird and crazy to watch. We found it by the edge of a pond, panting, but up! With its throat slit! It tried to go into the water and fell and Roger proceeded to drown it to FINALLY put it out of its misery!!!Which took forever cuz it kept struggling! IT was really crazy and slightly disturbing. The worst was watching it drown. Roger felt bad for me to see that. I hope I can make clean kills and not have that happen! I couldn't do that, Roger would have to...Well I WAS still proud of him, and he was so happy. That was his first deer with a bow! It was a 4 pointer with a pretty decent body and obviously an incredible will to live!
So that was a late night, but it was really interesting learning to blood trail. Well we were too tired to get up in the morning. I was dying to but my body protested so we slept till like 9ish and then Em saw a HUGE buck over in a field across from their house heading towards the woods. On a hot doe most likely. Shortly after that another huge buck came through! So we all flew about getting our gear and went out. And none of us saw those bucks but it was still fun to get out and try and stalk and call in those bucks. I'm learning a lot at least! :) That night Roger and I went out after a nasty thunderstorm. That was crazy for me since I hate storms, but I wanted to go so bad! We found a spot and the sun came out and it was AMAZING through the woods. We didn't stay long cuz Josh called to inform us of a tornadoe warning! We saw some fresh scrapes possibly from one of those two bucks, but otherwise saw one doe far off running. I enjoyed it though, I loved finally getting out! I'm not too sad I didn't get a deer, i'm just glad to have learned so much. Hopefully Roger will come next weekend and we'll hunt at home. There's LOTS of potential there too! :)
Roger left me this morning :( All day I just felt so lonely with him gone. Even tonight when my sister, brother and I watched a movie I felt so alone. Not just cuz Roger was gone, I guess I miss Houghton sometimes and all the people around and frisbee and friends down the hall, and doing crazy things late at night. Sometimes it sucks growing up. I miss long deep talks with friends. I miss being able to open up to people. I don't know. I feel so alone lately. And I get so down on myself and all I seem to think about are my faults. As I think more about marriage, I think more about all my faults and problems and the list seems to grow. But I don't feel like babbling about that again. I'm tired and should head to bed. Probably watch some more football cuz the Patriots are actually losing this one so far! ;) So that's all for now.