Rooster!

If you travel across South Dakota

right now you'll see the 

same sign everywhere...

"WELCOME HUNTERS!"

With an economic boost

of $25 Billion dollars in sales

the red carpet has been rolled out 

to welcome hunters from everywhere! 

Yesterday was opening day

and the pheasant hunters 

gathered and hunted...

I had the pleasure of walking

and hunting along side 

a group of investment bankers

from all over the U.S.

I took pictures for them

and put together

a slideshow CD

as a souvenir

of their South Dakota

Hunting Adventure...

 

 Unlike today's windy and cold weather,

yesterday was the perfect day

for hunting...

Nice and sunny...

just enough clouds in the sky

to make the pictures perfect!

these hunters 

were getting a glimpse 

of how lucky we 

are to live in South Dakota...

after 4 hours of marching through

corn strips on a professional hunt,

I went over to our local hunt 

and walked along with them...

 

the same beautiful scenery...

 

row after row of bird feed

and cover...

 

we walked in some pretty big 

fields...

too big for the amount 

of hunters in our local group

I think we were just chasing 

animals around,

or maybe 

they were 

just chasing us around?

see the deer looking at me

in this shot...

here's a closer look...

 

he was running up ahead of 

me giving all the 

pheasants the heads

up that hunters 

are coming!

I made it over and around

and at the bottom was 

this quagmire of brush...

I thought I was just gonna

have to give up and live with 

the deer here!

Seriously by this point 

my legs and feet were so tired,

I was ready to call a helicopter

to lift me out of there!

My boots wouldn't stay tied,

the weeds kept catching them,

It felt like walking in quick sand!

Every step the tall bent over stalks

would grab my feet and hold them!

the guys were all way ahead of me,

who's dumb idea was this anyway?

from there it turned into a jungle

of 10 foot tall sorghum and pure mud...

I struggled all the way back to the road!

 

When I got in the truck I told Sall

I'm going home!

 

 

 

Seven hours of hunting was plenty...

 

then I spent the next 7 hours

editing 400 photos.

 

By 2:00 today I had all of 

my souvenir CD's ready to deliver...

 

All of the hunters loved the pictures!

 

Thank Goodness,

maybe I can buy

a massage session

with my earnings!

Take care and

don't get taken down

by monster weeds,

Lisa

p.s. here's a link to the SD Game Fish and Park website on the economic impact hunting has on our state, INTERESTING! click here