Thursday, November 4, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
Rights of Passage
Halloween Weekend - 2010
It started innocently enough...Bay decided he didn't want to dress up for Halloween this year. He just wanted to hand out candy. Then...we realized it was Youth Weekend, a junior hunter's dream! Some friends invited the guys to come onto their lease this weekend and let Bay hunt with the other kids. So after getting hime late from the football game on Friday night, they were up at 5:15 and ready to get to their assigned blind. I took the day to go to First Monday and had been there only an hour when I got the call that Bay had gotten his first deer...a doe. Since the men start hunting this coming weekend, and since Dan & Bay aren't members on this particular lease, they asked that they only shoot at doe. Not easy to figure out who was more excited, Daddy on Bailey :-)
So we all met up for lunch in town and after a couple of hours rest they headed back to the lease to finish building a deer stand and go back for the evening hunt. I settled in for some Texas Rangers action and had just texted that we were ahead 3-0 when they texted back that I needed to bring another cooler out because he had shot his second deer! Needless to say, he wasn't even around for the feew trick-or-treaters that came by on Saturday.
We woke up on Sunday to beautiful weather, so all three of us headed to Canton again. We spent a few hours just walking aorund and taking it all in...a very relaxing day. We went home and watched some football and cooked what Bay calls "ballpark food" for the Ranger game (hot dogs and all the fixins'). Settled in for the ballgame and had a few more kiddos ring the doorbell, so we dumped as much candy as we would into their bags and we STILL have leftover Tootsie Rolls!
So it was kind of bittersweet that the little man has decided he is too old for costumes, but he made that step towards becoming a man as he proclaimed himself the Great Deer Slayer!
It started innocently enough...Bay decided he didn't want to dress up for Halloween this year. He just wanted to hand out candy. Then...we realized it was Youth Weekend, a junior hunter's dream! Some friends invited the guys to come onto their lease this weekend and let Bay hunt with the other kids. So after getting hime late from the football game on Friday night, they were up at 5:15 and ready to get to their assigned blind. I took the day to go to First Monday and had been there only an hour when I got the call that Bay had gotten his first deer...a doe. Since the men start hunting this coming weekend, and since Dan & Bay aren't members on this particular lease, they asked that they only shoot at doe. Not easy to figure out who was more excited, Daddy on Bailey :-)
So we all met up for lunch in town and after a couple of hours rest they headed back to the lease to finish building a deer stand and go back for the evening hunt. I settled in for some Texas Rangers action and had just texted that we were ahead 3-0 when they texted back that I needed to bring another cooler out because he had shot his second deer! Needless to say, he wasn't even around for the feew trick-or-treaters that came by on Saturday.
We woke up on Sunday to beautiful weather, so all three of us headed to Canton again. We spent a few hours just walking aorund and taking it all in...a very relaxing day. We went home and watched some football and cooked what Bay calls "ballpark food" for the Ranger game (hot dogs and all the fixins'). Settled in for the ballgame and had a few more kiddos ring the doorbell, so we dumped as much candy as we would into their bags and we STILL have leftover Tootsie Rolls!
So it was kind of bittersweet that the little man has decided he is too old for costumes, but he made that step towards becoming a man as he proclaimed himself the Great Deer Slayer!
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