First light, Treasure - Ep 46

Uh, but here's what I'm thinking about this morning.

I'm remembering a hunt that I went on with my granddaughter, Maddie, and this was before Maddie had ever killed a big deer.

This is the way I'm remembering it, so it, it becomes truth when I say it out here on the podcast.

I don't think Maddie will mind me using her for my example this morning.

But we got up and we went to a stand on a piece of property that we, um, lease, and it's such a great privilege to be able to lease it and love getting to walk around on this amazing piece of Mississippi, uh, Delta bottom land.

And occasionally we see some big deer, but the goal that day was just to be together, and we had hoped that we would have a chance for her to be able to kill her first really good deer.

In my memory, I think that Maddie had, had killed a first deer, I think she had, but I know she hadn't killed a big buck.

And so we were together, and we climbed up in this stand.

We call this stand Mom's Stand.

And, uh, my brother Hollis, he calls it the Ejector Stand because the story behind the story is that my wife Vicki and I, we put up a stand at this particular location together, and it's one of the very few times that she got out in the woods and helped me hold the ladder and do all the things, you know, the scary things that you have to do to put a stand up there.

And we, we leaned it up against this tree and, and cinched it up tight.

And then my brother, older brother, came to hunting it one day and he, he started calling it the Ejector Stand because what we'd done is we'd...

When we originally put that stand up, that we'd left it leaning forward.

You know what I'm talking about, when you get in the stand and you feel like you're about to fall out of it because the knucklehead that put the stand up didn't, didn't put it up, you know, le- where it should be leaning in the right direction.

And it was one of those really big metal stands that you need two people to put up.

And so he didn't want to call it Mom's Stand, he wanted to call it the Ejector Stand.

So, but eventually, you know, we all call it Mom's Stand.

But we did take that stand down because you couldn't sit in it.

You felt like you were gonna fall off the edge of a cliff.

Anyway, we put up a nice stand that multiple people can get in.

And so it's this big metal stand.

It's got a, almost a dance floor up there.

I've had three kids in it with me at one time, but that day it was just me and Maddie.

You n- understand that it's in a great location.

Right to your back, when you're looking out the natural place that you would look out, there's a food plot, and you can see out all four sides of it easily.