New Strategy / Prayer for 2002 - 2003

[SoftCall]

I am pumped about this weekend! New strategy - catch the birds going north when it warms up. Think I am crazy?? Who knows, this weekend may yield some birds yet...

Honestly - I am trying to convince myself to hit the brake one last weekend to send the season off in good spirits - literally. Wildfowler - don't forget the petrol cause we ain’t hunting..we are gonna have a hat and glasses party. Mallardchaser - we'll pickle our sorrows with the nectar of the gods - Milwaukee’s finest or best or whatever the hell it is you drink. Then we'll chant our prayer for next year. I think that it will go something like this....

"Duck gods - hear our plea for a more fruitful season next year. May it be more prosperous and target rich than this year. May countless numbers of waterfowl spill from the duck "horn of plenty". May the floodwaters recede and clear the way for plush crops and duck grub. May our yank buddies up north get 8 feet of snow right at the end of their season and push huge scads of wildfowl into my blind. May my wife forget how to speak between the last week of December and the end of January only to greet me with a smile after a weekend ducking adventure. May my cell phone not ring in the blind with a plea to abandon my duck hunting brethren because of the crisis de jour. May my dog make it through season number 10 (or 11??) only to retrieve another banded duck. May my 1970 duracraft continue to float for the length of an entire hunt. May the pull cord on my motor not leave my ass stranded in the middle of uhhhhhh "lost lake". May the front end of my 4-wheeler stop that obnoxious rattle. May my pit blinds avoid the mega disk and the John Deer. May many lazy brothers abandon their spreads so I may rescue them in June. May the 16th section dr. farmer in Morgan City not try to grow INSURANCE COTTON on BEAN & RICE LAND ever again. May Old Charter 5ths NEVER come in a plastic bottle."

Good luck everyone and be safe.

[Wildfowler]

That's an interesting theory you have about shooting ducks as they make their spring migration back North. I beg to differ, the ducks have to migrate South before they can migrate back North. That never happended this year.

I broke with my tradition this year. I used store bought "Petrol" instead of my home brew. I got lazy this year. But since it's the last weekend, I may whip out the old gas can just for you. I know how much you like the sugar I put in it.

So who gave you a five star rating anyway?

[SoftCall]

Easy now..there are plenty of shovelers that made it futher south than you think. I didn't say we were hunting mallards. Maybe a bluewing will buzz the spread and you can finally get a decent drake with all the colors.

Skip the sugar. The ZZ and V is all we need. Hopefully Mallardchaser will be in better spirits. Some piece of s..t swine stole his bike.

[mallardchaser]

I'm ready,
it is gonna suck to be staring in the back of every truck as I ride to the delta,looking for my 4 wheeler..A little "petrol" will be tasty in the morning..not too much tonight, we're gonna need to get there earlier than I had anticipated...
talk to y'all later..

[SoftCall]

We can either add a line of sorrow or a line of thanks to the prayer. I think that you may get a new bike out of this one my friend. You kind of have an excuse to go pay the difference on the rancher now. Less convincing required for the wife.

I am just a "my glass is half full" kind of guy today.