Opening Day

Hunting in Michigan is a Very Big Deal.  Especially deer hunting.  Opening Day of gun season is something of a holiday here. 

Driving to work on Monday, I was a bit confused by the lack of traffic through town.  I knew it was a week day since the buses  were at the school near my house, but there was really not much traffic at all.  Then I remembered.

It was Opening Day.

I have no issues with  hunting.  My dad was a big hunter/fisher.  He raised champion coon hounds and I grew up around the whole hunting thing.  I enjoyed duck hunting and I must admit, I like to shoot. 

Surprisingly, since I work in the building trades, we only were missing 3 people at work.  Boss the Son, however, went hunting, which I never would have guessed.  He hasn't been hunting in years and the biggest surprise of all, he got a deer.  Which he immediately tried to give to me.  Uh, no thanks.  Not fond of venison other than jerky and sausage.  I then suggested he donate it to Gleaner's Food Bank, which he thought was a wonderful idea.

Deer hunting is so popular here in Michigan, opening day may as well be declared a holiday and just be done with it.   I had a heck of a time scheduling inspections with the Health Department because big surprise, most of the inspectors were off for Opening Day.

I could go into the jokes regarding hunting widows and deer camp, but they've all been overworked already.

Comments

[Amy]

When I was in high school there was talk about giving every body the first day off because most years there weren't enough students to count it as a full day.