So my sister gave her husband an electric unicycle. It was the main entertainment for my mom's family's Xmas eve hang. Carter rode it well. Jeff, his father, tried real hard.
Duck Season in Arkansas is out on Xmas eve and Xmas day, as to prevent duck hunters from COMPLETELY neglecting their respective families. Luckily, 'tis the season for strange tech presents, and duck hunters love gadgets and gizmos.
I looked on my soundcloud (which you can get to by clicking on my name in the boss truck picture widget to the left) and this HIT had some plays this year. Its my greatest hit of this year. PLAY it in the duckblind. Play it in the car. Play it after church. HAVE A BLESSED DAY!!
The #21 blind at Yellow Creek Hunting Club, around McNab, Arkansas. Opening day 2012 with the author's Sears canoe and bag of game for the day.
Opening Day 2012
Nearly everyone can recall an instance where they were doing something they have done many times before, but for whatever reason, a certain change of events made that particular experience a bit different than the rest. In my 25 years of duck hunting, I have experienced several opening days that have ranged from fast & furious, to downright slow, to anywhere in between. The anticipation of the preceding weeks almost always makes it a fantastic hunt regardless of the results. However, the duck season opener of the 2012-2013 season was a slightly unusual one for me.
Since I was a child, the holiday season meant many things to my family. Jesus and the Arkansas Razorbacks favored predominantly, but Duck Huntin' was the family passion. If for only the men, it was what the collective dreampt of during spring into baseball season, through the heat of the summer into fall and all football season. Right about the time football peters out, duck season starts. A couple of weeks after the first days of November welcome deer hunters into their treetop prisons of silence and lack of smell, duck hunters take to the waters.
It is bloody, but beautiful. Full of the pomp and circumstance any good cultural anomaly claims. Over the next few weeks, I will focus on amplifying the blood, the beauty, the pomp, and the circumstance.