Rick wrote:Yup.
First Louisiana duck camp I visited featured a framed piece of calligraphy to the effect of:
"Too is the most important word in the waterfowler's lexicon:
too clear, too cloudy
too calm, too windy
too early, too late
too warm, too cold
too this, too that (and so on and on, until...)
...and tomorrow"
I think that is what is great about keeping a log because our memories are not
too good.
Uneventful bad days are forgotten and good days are remembered. This makes the past seem better than it actually was. It may have been better, but it was not as good as it seems today. How many of those days from a decade ago when you had
too many excuses can you even remember today?
Even this past season, 33 of the 48 times (my log splits mornings and evenings as separate times) I went hunting that I got nothing. I can't remember but a few of those 33 times and of those I can it was because something exciting happened like my wife shooting at her first goose, me missing a buck, getting out of my deer stand just as 3 deer were coming in, seeing an insane number of ducks, ... Most of those zero days were deer hunting, which is a given for deer hunting. But I can remember nearly all of the 15 times where I harvested something. So even now, the season seems much better than it did at the low point. Although, I had a good season and even with the large number of zero days I never really had a very low point. I think the reason for not getting discouraged is that I split up the season between deer hunting and waterfowling along with throwing in a 2 week trip to Florida in the middle. Just waterfowl and I was looking at nearly 3 months of failure this season.