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Old 02-10-2006, 10:58 AM
larryours larryours is offline
 
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Sad Day

Hey Rubicon, OB does sounds familiar but I just can't picture his face with the name , had he retired from House of Delegates ?
Which area did he represent ?

There's nothing like a good friend and hunting buddy, this past year I spend 3-4 days bow hunting earlier in October, and then just over a week in November bow hunting. my buddy who is about 10 years older than me, is retired, he doesn't bowhunt, but he still rifle hunts, he showed me several location which would be good for treestands since he's in and around his property thoughout the year, I kill one deer with a stone "chert" arrowhead that a friend of mine had knapped for me in the earlier part, I asked him "Wonder how long it's been since someone has killed a deer with a chert arrowhead ? Have you ever heard
of anyone recently killing a deer with a knapped arrowhead in this area ?" He looked at me and grinned and said, "Probably not since the *#@*+ Indians, and then laugh. I boiled out the skull of that buck, and made a plauque and put the full arrow on it. It now graces his hunting camp over the door on the inside.
Then on the week before rifle season I tagged out on the two remaining archery tags, and when I hunted till dark, he had diner and a mixed drink waiting, when I came in, he loves his camp as much as I do, really he's just like family, he would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it, we would sit up at night and have some tomato juice & beer, and talk about everything, members of his family would come up and visit, actually he stayed at camp from a few days before I arrived for bowhunting, then other friends and family came in to deer hunt and he stay until
1st of January only going home for Christmas a few days, him and his wife and children and grandchildren held their Thanksgiving Diner at his hunting camp..
When I was packing to come home and back to work, we shook hands and his eyes were moisting up, because you never know when this could be our last day on this old Earth, I'll probably go out for a few days in Spring for Spring Gobbler, and a weekend or two during the summer, a few days early bow hunting, but that one full week in November when we are at camp when I'm bowhunting, its like coming home, I told my wife, thats my Second home, if something would happen to Lee, It would never be the same, he's one hellova good friend, and THAT"S WHAT MEMORIES ARE MADE OF: GOOD FRIENDS, FAMILY, & TIME !
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