I am now starting to believe that this North Dakota winter will
finally end! The temperature has been
creeping up by just a degree or two each day and in response the snow pack depth
has been dropping by an inch or two each day.
Eventually green will replace white and I’ll be reaping the rewards of
North Dakota’s long summer days.
Yesterday I heard the snow geese flying over but the fog was
so dense I never got a look at them, but it was good to hear them after a long
winter with howling winds carrying the yip of coyotes. After hearing the geese I did take a short
drive into the countryside to see if the snow melt will let me get to hunting
fields. Nope. The mud is deep, thick and clinging which leaves me looking for some
pass shooting opportunities as snow geese drop into or leave a field. The
season is open until early May so I’ve got the whole month of April to get some
snows. I am pretty confident I’ll get the opportunity to bring some down for
Cookie to bring out of the muddy field so my feet stay dry!
When the idea of spring goose hunting was first being kicked
around I wasn’t impressed because, like most other hunters, I had been brought
up on the idea of waterfowl hunting in the fall and early winter. Somehow, I thought that spring hunting was
cheating and it gave hunters an unfair advantage. It took a few years to change
my thinking but I did and now I look forward to the spring season as a
reaffirmation of nature’s bounty and, of course, our position as hunters within
nature.
Another Thought.
. . .
I hope that this insane anti gun hysteria that has flamed across
the country is not going to morph into more anti-hunting hype, all because of Bloomberg’s
misrepresentation of hunters in his gun-control ads. What has truly vexed me is
that he and his crew of malcontent mayors and coattail hanger-ons seem to feel
they have the right to influence how North Dakota’s elected officials should
vote. We elected our officials,
Bloomberg’s Bums didn’t. What we are seeing from Bloomberg and his followers is
another step in the direction of greater class separation, a conflict that is
being fueled by those who have the biggest bankroll! In today’s culture of
wealth at any cost, as an individual’s bankroll grows, if they spend a
proportional amount of time admiring their reflection in the mirror, they will begin
painting gilt on the mirror’s frame, adding more gold to the mirror until the
frame breaks the mirror, and they then believe thieves from the lower classes
smashed the frame to steal the gold. In their minds they are justified in
denying rights to others because of the broken frame mindset. Fortunately, not
all members of the wealthy class are fooled by a gilded mirror frame and do not
align themselves or their business with the paranoid Bloomberg culture.
glg
