Tuesday

Today is election day here in the United States, hopefully you are a registered voter and will get to the polls and vote!

When I was younger I never voted, now I rarely miss an election. I'm going to wait until it's a little warmer this afternoon then head over to my polling place. I love the touchscreen voting because I can do it independently for the most part.

Yesterday afternoon was a beautiful fall day here in Pennsylvania and I took the opportunity to go bow hunting. I used a different ground blind a ameristep outhouse blind which is a very small one-person blind. My brother was hunting in his tree stand close by...

I watched a mature Doe cross a field about 200 yards away and walk right to my location. I was very calm on the outside but very excited on the inside. She slowly walked to within 25 yards of my ground blind and stood broadside.

I was watching through the scope waiting for her to take another two steps which would put her directly into my crosshairs.  I have a very limited range of motion with the adapted crossbow and brace  that enables me to hunt.

She looked directly into my blind and would not take the additional two steps......... damn it! She stayed on my right side for another five minutes milling around, certainly teasing this quadriplegic.

I had the almost perfect night of hunting, beautiful weather and I had deer around my blind. I'm not sure how many more times I can get out this season but last night was one for my memory bank.