Spring 2026

I don’t believe I have shared this past spring’s turkey season. It’s funny how it works, this year I was a year older and therefore a year slower. Last year, if you recall, I spent just less than an hour in the blind before a turkey was flopping in the decoys and my season was over. This year however, it was closer to an hour and a half before turkeys showed up and instead of flopping close to the blind he was staggering off necessitating a follow up shot. So thirtyish minutes longer, two shots and further from the blind. It’s hell getting old. My Personal Guide has banned me from that spot. I think he wants to hunt there. I don’t know what he’ll do for the rest of the season when it’s over by noon on the first day. Well, probably something silly like plant his crops. Labor Day is in the rearview mirror. That can only mean one thing, and that one thing is ice fishing is just around the corner. Oh yeah, and I’m not sure, but I think deer season happens sometime soon as well. Actually it means two things. Thing two is the Cubs may have a chance at the playoffs this year. As I write this I don’t think the Cubs will win the division, the Brewers have been playing out of their

minds during the second half of the season. Remember when the Cards were the Cubs number one enemy? That seems to have fallen by the wayside to be replaced by a bitter rivalry with the Brewers. As you read this I hope to be basking in the glow of at least one Cubs playoff win. I don’t ask for much, just make the playoffs and win a game, or several. Please? Why, I’d even go so far as to let Sir Winterkill win the big fish contest next year if the Cubs could win the World Series. Have a safe and successful deer season and don’t fall through the ice. I wrote this true and believable story around Labor Day 2025. Somehow it got lost in the ether. Either that or I forgot to send it. The Cubs did win at least one game in the playoffs, in fact they won four and I was, and still am, basking like a hound dog laying on the front porch in the warm spring sun. The Cubs did not win the World Series so it looks like I’ll need to let Sir Winterkill win the big fish contest again this summer. Turkey season is just around the corner and it remains to be seen if I can continue my streak or if this is the year that I get my comeuppance…. Stay tuned, I’m sure there will be more to the story.

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