Big Weekend and Time Off

I took the day off on Friday with plans of spending the morning relaxing, doing some work on the computer and then going hunting in the afternoon. An 8am call from our realtor with a requesting for a showing of our house changed those plans. Dusting, vacuuming, etc for 3 hours and then out the door with the dog to kill an hour. This was our third showing to the same couple so that was a good sign and worth the loss of my free time. They made an offer on Saturday and I am pleased to report we accepted their 2nd counter-offer last night. As long as the inspection doesn’t turn up any unknown problems, we’re free and clear.

As for hunting, we had a lot of fog on Friday which I was excited to hunt in. Fog generally means lower flying birds and also provides some natural cover as they don’t see things on the ground until they are right on top of them. I was able to work some big groups of geese, forcing them to circle the farm several times but unfortunately providing no shots. It was still a heap of fun. Around 6pm, just before the end of shooting light, I heard a group coming right towards the middle of the farm. After quickly re-positioning myself  I was able to get off a great passing shot and put my first goose of the season on the ground. The sight of Murphy trying to drag the 20 pound bird back to the blind was pretty hilarious. He still has some things to learn.

I had also planned on spending another few hours on Sunday going through a slew of articles saved in my favorites and in my Google Reader account. My hope was to put some quality posts in the hopper to use in the coming weeks as the stress of packing and moving ramps up. No luck there as other house-related items crept up. I will try to make some progress there but just a warning that posting will definitely lighten up in the coming weeks and probably through March. I won’t disappear, but my daily weekday posts aren’t a guarantee. As soon as we get the keys to the new house I’ll try to post some pictures. Until then, stay tuned…