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The Bucks of Madison County

Life h angs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late. - Steve Goss Thanks Pavy ! I completed my week of physical therapy up in the mountains deer hunting with my brother. Thanks Mike for taking care of everything and finally, after a few frustrating days, putting me in front of one. The pic above is of the two Madison County bucks that he dropped while sitting in the same spot last Wednesday, while his buddy Darrel and I got to sit and stare at the relentlessly unmoving trees for 10 hours. The funny thing about luck though is that everyone eventually gets their turn at some. I got my opportunity on the morning of our last day hunting, when after walking into the woods only 200 yards from the truck we jumped a deer up. Mike and Dean let the sick boy from out of town go ahead and try to stalk the deer while they hung behind watching. Being a young and not so wary deer, I was able to sneak up and get a

Veteran's Day

Every Veteran at some point when they enlisted, wrote a blank check to their Country and Government payable for any amount up to and including their life. A fitting day for my first blog entry in a long, long while since I spent all of last week in the Veteran's Hospital in Richmond . I was admitted for a case of perforated diverticulitis with an abscess . The care I received was great, and I'm extremely thankful for it because like 1 in every 5 Americans I have no health insurance. We came up here to Deltaville for the summer, arriving a little late, and it seems we've been captured for the winter. Star is working part time at West Marine, and had a brief stint selling boats for Gratitude Yacht Sales . After working the Annapolis Boat Show, she was 'let go' last week when she chose to visit me in the hospital rather than sit in the office/residence of the managing broker for no pay. She was told her 'priorities are wrong'. Some jobs just aren't wort