My First Hunting Trip

Look what "Sweet Hunter" gave me the day before my first hunting trip.
He gave me binoculars so I could see the deer.  He bought me a thermacell to keep the bugs away.  He knew that I would use Off spray and the deer can smell that.  And he bought me the cutest little fleece camoflauged boggin and a orange vest.
So I got it all ready the night before.

The next morning.......at 6 a.m. this is what "Sweet Hunter" looked like.

That same morning........at 6:30 a.m. this is what I looked like!
I do have my camo toboggan (hat) on though.
And I have to have my coke before getting ready, ya know?

So here I go to my blind which is not far away at all.  I was hunting with the cross bow. Now keep in mind that I have only shot this a few times.
So I am ready. I held the bow for a long time waiting on that deer to come and I waited and waited and waited.
Finally, I put it down.

And I got me a cup of coffee out of the thermos that I had brought to warm me up.
"Sweet Hunter" didn't know that I had all of this in my back pack. 
Well he did know about the gloves.
 He gave me those too.
I think that he thought all I needed were the things he gave me.
But I needed a flash light because it was dark.  I needed chap stick in case my lips got dry.  I needed a cell phone in case I needed him to come and help me drag my deer out.  And I needed something in case I got bored so I brought a book that I have been trying to read for months now.  The Excellent Wife.  I love the Bible study of Proverbs 31.  How do you like my little table that I put in my blind?  I actually have 2 of them.

The other little table is where I put the cross bow. I got very tired of holding it.
Hunting is not as easy as people think. You sit and sit and wait and wait.
I can honestly say that I admire my "Sweet hunter".

I traded my chair with the cup holder for one of these little
 wooden chairs because I was too low to see out of the windows.
And the pillow?  I had to go in the Sparta Hilton to get it
 because my rear got so sore from sitting for that long.

Well I never saw anything and it was getting daylight so I got my book out and started reading.
I would read a paragraph and then look out in the woods really good.
I never saw anything but the book was good.

Once it warmed up I actually enjoyed being out there.
It was like everything came alive except the deer!
If you know anything about me.....I am not one to sit still so this was a challenge.
But I did it.  I am determined.

Well I hunted as long as "Sweet Hunter" did. 
When he came back he didn't realize that I was still in the blind.
He was way down in the woods in a tree stand. 
He said he was proud of me for staying that long. So this is how I looked once I got all my camo on.  What you can't see is I have my p.j.'s on underneath! As I sat there in that blind all by myself that morning, I wondered what I would really do if I saw a deer.  "Sweet Hunter" says your heart beats so fast and you get so excited.  I just wonder if I will be scared or ready. I wonder if any deer passed by while I was reading the book. (lol) So this is my story of my first hunting trip and I am sticking to it.