Opening day

It is opening weekend of the nine-day gun deer hunting season in Wisconsin this weekend. Today was opening day. It's a weekend my beloved spends almost all year thinking about. Dreaming about. Last year, he shot several times over the course of those nine days and got NOTHING. It was disappointing and frustrating for him and it also meant a year with no venison in the freezer and I was disappointed about that. But, this year things are looking up. He got a doe during bow season and this morning, around 8 am, he got an 8 point buck. YAY FOR TIMMY!

TJ said it's his buck...

But he didn't want to touch it...
Marshmallow boy came along to check things out...
And needed some help to get back up, but I'm not sure TJ was much help...
Wherever Daddy goes, Rugby and Riley have to go, too. They had to help skin the doe that Adam got...
Rugby so proud of the blood on his new gloves. UGH! Little boys....
Showing off dad's deer...
He spent the $2 when he registered the buck to get another doe tag, so he can get two does and another bonus buck over the next eight days. That's a LOT of venison. We ground most of this one up into hamburger thanks to my KitchenAid food grinder attachment for my stand mixer. I LOVE THAT THING!! We have 2 large packages of tenderloins and a couple roasts and 20 pounds of burger, plus whatever was left from the doe that he got during bow season. YUM!!!!!!
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