Successful Hunt

Finally I have been victorious! No more moose hunting for me, for another three years. Yesterday mornings hunt started very early. We (my hunting buddy and I) left the house at 5:30, drove 10km on a dirt road and then used the quad to go even farther so we could be in a spot where the moose would be at sun up.

The sun was up and it was bright, very early. It had been a clear night when we left with the sky full of stars and the moon. So there were no clouds to get in the suns way come morning. So we started searching. We came down a little hill with a small bog on the right and there were 2 moose. A cow (female) and a calf (baby). My licence is for either sex so I could shoot the cow....but I didn't. I have a hard enough time killing animals to begin with. So there was no way I was going to kill a mom with her kid standing next to her.

But on the edge of the bog, hiding, was the bull (male) moose. There was no guessing. There was a rack of antlers on his big ol' head. I didnt have as much of a problem shooting the bull. Don't worry, it wasn't the kids dad. That's not how moose roll! He took a couple steps out, turned, bang, down. He was dead. One shot. No suffering. Which makes me feel better. I said sorry to the moose and thanked him.

So now the work begins. Get to the moose in the bog. Gut moose. Get moose out of bog. Get moose home. Skin moose. Bring moose to butcher. An all day chore. And I went to bed very early last night.

Today I have to bake a cake for my birthday supper on Saturday. It's not my birthday then but I'll be away at work, somewhere on the Grand Banks or off the coast of Labrador I suppose, on my birthday. I asked friends what I should make. They have complete faith in my baking/crafting abilities so the combined suggestion is something like a red velvet, drunken gummy, skittle umbre cake. I think there was a suggestion for a stout cake too. Maybe I'll need layers. 2 cakes even. One mostly full of liquor and one for the kids (ie my nephew).

I should probably also clean. Step 1, get out of bed!

Also there are no moose pics because well I don't like posting that kind of stuff. Yes I took his picture but you won't see it here or fb or twitter. And can the girls that work with my mom smack her. She keeps looking at pics from the SPCA.

Leann