Last Saturday was
opening day of deer gun season. My 69th
year, without missing a year, even made it when I was in the army.
I sat where my father
sat the last year he hunted deer. It was
1992 and he was 92. As I sat and waited,
and looked and listened I could still hear my father’s words. “You’ve got to be patient, and you’ve got to
be quiet.”
Although my dad didn’t
talk about it, deer hunting for him, as it is for me, is much more than the
hunt. It is about tradition and it is
about family. In addition to myself,
and my son, this year’s hunting crew included my brother and his three sons.
For us deer hunting is a time for storytelling and good food, and being
outdoors on a chilly November morning and enjoying the sights and sounds It is also a time for remembering as I sat
where my father sat 22 years ago, he with his 30-30 Savage rifle on his lap, me
with my 30-30 Winchester rifle on my lap.
He would be pleased to know that his sons and grandsons are carrying on
the tradition.
HE OLD TIMER SAYS: Deer season is much more than hunting deer.
December
3, 7:00 p.m. Live on Milwaukee Public
TV. A Farm Winter.
December
7, 1:00-2:15 and 2:30-3:15 Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells (Two sessions) Wis
Farm Bureau Meeting. Writing From Your Life for Children and Grandchildren.
December
8, 8:00 p. m. Live on Twin Cities Public
TV. A Farm Winter.
December
13, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Barnes and
Noble, La Crosse. Book Signing.
January
28, 2015 7:00 p.m. Stoughton Opera House.
A Farm Winter.
Purchase
Jerry’s DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial Library in Wild Rose,
Wisconsin (a fund raiser for them): Patterson
Memorial Library
The
library now has available both of Jerry’s DVDs, Emmy Winner, A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps and Jerry Apps A Farm Story.
Also
available are several of Jerry’s book including The Quiet Season (on which the DVD A Farm Winter is based), as well as Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old
Farm, (which are related to the DVD Jerry
Apps a Farm Story). Also available is Jerry’s new novel, The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County.
Contact
the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson
Memorial Library
50
Division St.
1 comment:
You've got it so right, Jerry. Neat that we both carried a 30/30 Winchester! Please keep writing! I love your blogs.
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