Thursday November 13, 2025 Who's On First?

   "So, what do you do 'deer hunting'? I really don't know a thing about it," Catherine asked.  "Almost everyone, God and all his friends here in the forest, hunt deer so I'm inclined to ask as I have the opportunity now. Will you tell me? You've talked about your deer stands all these years... Do you use bait -- or just wait around hoping they will walk by?"

Craig's Stand   November 12, 2025

 

   When Catherine stated her question that way, I had to admit it seemed silly waiting against the odds for a wild animal to just walk by morning, noon, or night. But frankly, it is what we do from these windowed boxes on stilts like is Craig's stand -- or, as is often the case of bow-hunting, (using a bow and arrow) perched on a small platform in tall trees; or, by using either method, hunting in what is called 'a ground blind,' found at most hunting outlet stores in which the highest your butt is off the ground is the height of your chair instead of dangling 16-feet wearing a safety harness in one like this

  In between all this waiting to see deer, it has been rumored that sometimes some hunters use their cellphones to determine fellow hunters whereabouts for, I assure you, purely safety purposes. 

 

One such conversation between J and S was overheard at a small town cafe recently:

10:07 am

 

"I jumped them by my stand, headed to M's Stand, don't think they winded me."

"The deer headed toward M's. I'm in mine. They stopped and snorted at me.

 

" Somebody drove down the cemetery road while you were walking ... Maybe it turned them back instead of crossing the road. Maybe they laid down on the south end of M's foodplot. Then threaded westerly to get back hereabouts, I haven't got into C's stand yet. Wait, I hear something.

 

That buck didn't look as big as the one C described.

You in C's Stand?

10:54 am

  

I'm walking around. See if I can get some some shit moving

 

Yep, Potsi's Stand. 

C is in The Privy

Combine is going

11:29 am

 

I'll wait a few minutes while u get in Potsi's Stand.

 

I'm in.

11:34 am

 

How come the doe was wide open?

When?

 

In M's stand.

 

Don't know how she'd get in there. Read what you wrote.

Yeah, it's 'door.'

 

Did you go there?

Yeah, walked to the cemetery. Somebody dropped you off. I seen them turn around.

 

Nobody dropped me off.

Then you didn't see me standing in the cemetery when it turned around in your car?

 

I'll call them

 

Call who?

Home. It wasn't my car. Guess J is going to drive up there to see what she can see.

How did you get to M's Stand?

I'm not in M's Stand. I'm in C's Stand

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Read our conversation, I feel like its some dumb rendition of "Who's on First?"

(Laughing crying emoji)

 

No shit! So now I'm getting the vibe that C isn't Potsi

And M is Potsi instead.

 

No, Yes, correct

(Blank stare, head shaking, 3 laughing crying emojis)

 

Geesus!

 

'C' aka Snaggle, Smegma, Claig, Red, and other pseudonyms, is at The Privy then?

M's door is still wide open cuz I thought you were there and that must have been J driving her car.

 

Where are you now, Big Shooter?

 

I'm going walking through the tamaracks pushing the shit towards you. North of The Privy coming your way.

 

Guess I'll wait then. 

 

I'm getting tired and bored. I'll give you another 10 minutes before I head in.

 

Ok, head in then. I'll cut it short.

See you at home, den eh.