Today was the opening for the Minnesota deer hunting season. John doesn't go out the first morning--says he never sees anything then--but waits until the evening to hunt. We were just finishing breakfast when the phone rang. It was Sam. He said "Tell Grand mom to get her camera ready". I grabbed my camera and we headed up to Matt's place. Sam and Matt were hunting together this morning and both shot nice does. This was Sam's first deer and he was smiling from ear to ear. John helped them get the deer hung up in the garage and then we all went in the house to hear the "hunting story". We got a blow by blow account including where the deer came in, how close it was, how it fell, and how hard it was to drag them out to the pickup.

Sara, Rachel, and Hanna hunted on the home place, but didn't see one single deer this morning.




Before leaving, hunting plans for the evening were discussed and it was decided that Hanna would come home with us and go hunting with John tonight. We had some lunch after we got home and then everyone just vegged out until it was time to get ready to go out to the deer stand. Hanna and John got bundled up in their blaze orange hunting clothes and headed out to the deer stand around 5 p.m. They stayed out there until dark, but didn't see any deer.

When they returned to the house, we had pizza for supper and then took Hanna back to her place. A couple of Matt's friends from the cities had dropped in after hunting all day and told us about their day's adventures. The one fella saw a huge buck and was just about ready to shoot when it suddently scented him, turned around, and ran off into the dense brush. He was just sick that he missed such a trophey. Matt plans to hunt in the morning but is not sure who is going with him--Sam or Hanna. After we got home we watched a little TV and then turned the clocks back before heading to bed.