They did a good job here, however sad my story may be to some I sure hope its uplifting to others. Thats the intent. Live each day as if its your last. https://youtu.be/R9gD6315Tew?si=7ktxQEksHCt4Y2TI

What are the harbinger of spring in your area? Is it returning waterfowl? Songbirds? Is it an amphibian? Spring peepers and Eastern toads are some of indicators..and some sounds for you to welcome spring from a couple years back for Throwback Thursday! If you listen at the very end you can hear a female fox 🦊 startle bark at me, annoyed at me being in her mouse hunting field.

So some positive news. I finished chemotherapy session number 9 today. 3 more to go then we do a PET scan to see were we are. I'm responding really well. Unfortunately for me and the type and stage cancer I have all this PIA treatments are only adding runway. Nothing will save me at this point. Yes I understand that some beat the odds. With that said I went to the Virginia Bowhunters Association State Indoor Tournament and shot the Silver Senior Trid Longbow division and won my 2nd State title. Last year I won the same category but the Recurve division but was not sick as a dog like this past weekend. Check out the T-Shirt!

Ive been fighting cancer this fall and winter. My deer season was destroyed and for me that was the worst part of this whole shitty mess. For the first time in the last 35 years there is no deer meat in our freezer. For the first time in 45 years I missed deer season. Here is a look at what I go though every 2 weeks. Its raw and hard to watch but cancer touches us all and as a retired journalist this is my way of giving back and attemping to shine a light on fighting cancer. This coming Tuesday I have my last session of chemotherapy. I get to ring that damn bell. They gave me 6 months to a year now we are talking 2 to 4 years. I have good days and bad days and my one major take away is this. A good day should be seized like its your last one and for me that's my reality. I love this new venture in traditional archery hunting I just hope to be more engaged in the future. I LOVE BOWHUNTING. That's what is going on my headstone. https://youtu.be/CtCkeasL-uM?si=srPJMbUn5eP78qgf

Got the hip quiver all stitched up and completed yesterday while watching the USA women come from behind and win gold in hockey. Once it was finished, I put the neatsfoot oil to it. I learned a lot making this and some things I would do differently. The suede trim can not be oiled with the neatsfoot, which I didn’t know before I started. Had I known, I would have oiled the veg tan leather before sewing in the trim. I would have also waited to punch the holes until it was ready to be put together. The leather shrunk a bit from wetting for tooling and then drying. Overall, a really fun project and didn’t come out too bad for my first large leather/tooling project.