My Favorite Hunting Buddy!!
Wow! What a hunting season we have had so far. Some great success and some very quiet and peaceful mornings, all alone, or have they been alone. I looked at one of my old friends facebook pages this morning and it took me back to the last time we hunted together. A duck hunt in central Texas that in my mind was going to be more about he trip than the hunting. I can still see him sitting in the passenger seat of my truck with the seat laid back and complaining of a headache. A headache that didn't go away for 3 days. From the time we got up to the time we hit the rack, headache!! I brought him home on Sunday night and told his wife to take him Monday and have him checked out. That was the Monday we found out he had a brain tumor...headache!! I will never forget sitting in a hospital room and him asking me to take care of his wife and kids if he didn't make it. I told him we would hunt again. 1 very successful surgery and many years later, he is doing great!! It's those kind of guys that make great hunting buddies. The ones that even though you have moved and you don't talk often, when you do, its like nothing has changed. Although we haven't hunted together in a long time, we still share successes and failures by phone or email or FB. I am on a lease right now with some of my favorite hunting buddies, brothers in Christ, and life long friends. Buddies that will soon have new babies, new priorities, and new reasons that keep momma from giving us that ever coveted hall pass. Hope you have a few hunting buddies of your own and if you haven't talked to them in a while, give them a ring and see how the season went.
