We’ll be moving soon so my route to work will need to be altered a bit. I will be limited in my route preferences however; I enjoy the challenge of evading traffic jams and shortening my drive time as well as conserving as much fuel as I can in my tank.
I am having a little fun researching areas where I can hunt in the manner I am used to, for example, openly and not restricted to certain days etc… That is proving to be difficult without driving some good distance away. I am resigned I will need to drive two hours to enjoy the true settings for my usual hunt pursuits: Honestly, that’s not that bad. I was telling my wife last night that I drove two hours or more in Tennessee as well yet two hours in Tennessee is twice the distance it is in Illinois.
One thing I am aware of is my renewed love for fall. Hunting, crisp air, football, leaves, the smell of smoke from burning falling leaves, Halloween. All things I used to love and still do but now I don’t approach the season with sadness. It used to remind me of my mother’s passing and all the other bad things that happened to me as I grew up. But now, because of my wife, married in the fall, she loves it, and makes it feel so much better, lets me remember the events in my life as experience and not regrets.
So I can think of scouting and hunting and walking in the woods with happiness and longing for enjoyment and not to escape my troubled thoughts. I wish she enjoyed a lot of the fall activities I do but she’ll never be sitting in a blind with me holding a bow. Maybe we could do that with a camera some time. She could not only enjoy watching the wildlife with me while experiencing the woods the way I like to but she could also say she shot a deer or turkey then!
So back to work so I can make the money to do the things I love and enjoy my life with the ones I love.
ILY XO YM
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