Where this will lead I have not a clue, but I guess I’ll continue the journey.
I took a little break from things for a little while. Over a month has passed since my last post. But that does not mean things have not been happening in the Augie’s Adventure’s camp.
I was able to take a break from the daily grind durning the last ten days of September. This blog is not my paycheck. Like most writers, I have a regular job. On October 1, I started a new job and I took a few chill days between the old job and new one.
Chill time is an important time we should all take from time to time. Instead of pushing to get in some good fishing and hunting with photos for the blog, I slept till I was ready to get up. I sat at the kitchen table and ate breakfast. I leisurely headed to the deer woods for some afternoon hunts or I would join a few friends for an afternoon of Dove shooting.
By the time, I began the new job and returned to the grind, I had put one deer in the freezer and had a few dove dinners. But more importantly I enjoyed my relaxing time at home.
With the beginning of the new job, I continued my break from this website. Sure there were stories to write up, but I choose to just enjoy the moments without worrying about getting the right photos, or putting in the late hours of preparing the story for the website.
There was the first buck of the season that I shot with the bow while hiding in the bushes. Yep, another buck shot while hunting from the ground. Not a monster, but a freezer filler. Then there was the October duck hunt on the Monocacy, one of my favorite pastimes, duck hunting for woodducks on the river out of the canoe. Nothing beats a mile of a dark river paddle to get the heart warm and alive. I did spend a few evenings photographing my whitetail buddies at the local park close to the city apartment, but for the most part the camera sat unused during my little adventures around home.
During my little break, I also attended a local Carroll county craft show, showing my framed photographs hoping to sell a few. Something I will be doing more of this fall as Christmas approaches. On Saturday November 22, 2014 I will again be attending the Carroll County Craft Show at the Ag. Center in Westminster, MD with photographs on display if anyone wishes to stop by and say hi and look over the photos for sale.
And then there was the Maryland bear hunt. I was lucky enough to draw a Maryland Bear Permit this year. My hunting partner and I spend the better part of a week, sitting in the rain and fog waiting on a bear to show. We were unsuccessful in taking a bear, but a week in the mountains hunting is always better than one at work.
So yep, I’ve been out and about enjoying the early fall with bow, shotgun and rifle in hand. The old Tacoma is still running strong, and she keeps getting me to and from my adventures.
This blog website is basically a labor of love. I do not make money from the site. At least not yet. I write about and photograph my little adventures for the enjoyment and with the hope that I may inspire others to leave the heavily traveled path and venture out into the natural world exploring not only the wonders of God’s natural world but maybe exploring a little more of ourselves in the process. And when it started to feel more like a chore than enjoyment, I took a break. And at the same time I starting to feel like it was not worth the effort because of the lack of traffic and that the monitory rewards had yet to come in. Then last week in church I sat and listened to a sermon about using our gifts and doing those things we love to do for we never know when or how God will choose to use us. I got the message, and I humbly sat down to finish this post.
What I do know is that I enjoy taking to the woods and waters not only hunting and fishing but also just wandering around exploring nature’s beauty. I also know that I enjoy writing and taking photographs of my time afield. Much of the time when at the keyboard or behind the lens of the camera, I feel the presence much large than mine typing the words or setting the exposure as I am not professionally trained in either. Where this will lead I have not a clue, but I guess I’ll continue the journey.
