I don’t know about you guys, but by Mid-May every year, I’ve lost the feeling. In the good years, it’s because I’ve filled all my tags, and I’ve got to start thinking about practical things like mowing the lawn. In the bad years, I reach a point where the season ends, and I have to finally admit that a bird with a pea brain has bested me. Either way, I put the turkeys aside and walk away.

Last season was the season that wasn’t. Andy Beshear (may his soul rot in hell) shut down non-resident tag sales the morning I was due to buy mine. This was after some of the most intense pre-season turkey action I’ve ever had. KYHillChick called me up to tell me the news just after I had a gobbler come up my backside and spit and drum in front of the umbrella mike. That was two weekends in a row where mature gobblers tried to make love to my mike at flydown. I had to cancel my vacation, and come back over the bridge.

So here I am, trying to use up that last week of vacation before I lose it, and it just so happens that the weather is right, there’s a slight dusting of snow on the ground. The sunrise is going to hit me square in the face in a few minutes and the switch inside my head goes from the “DEER” position over to “TURKEY.” Sometime this morning, I’ll go down the basement and grab the old suitcase with my calls. I’ll start watching turkey porn on Youtube. I’ll start readying my first weblog posts on Turkey.

I’ve been checking out the long-range forecasts. Kentucky is due for a warm/wet spring. We’re in a La Nina event. My farm usually produces the best in La Nina years. I’d love to see the Trans-Bluegrass have a hot-steamy Opening Week with thunderstorms every couple of days. The lack of hunting last year means all those 2-yr-olds I saw are now 3. The mature birds are still out there. In fact I saw a group of 10 beard-draggers out in the pasture at Halloween.

Dang! Now I’m really started.

Anyhow. I’m back. It feels good to be back.

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