Past notes update blog

By Mac Arnold
Editor-In-Chief

Written earlier this past summer:

Here I am at the end of another long stretch of paying child support.

Just thinking about it recently left me stunned when I realized it was 7 1/2 years this time. 

My youngest child — Zachary — turned 18 in August. 

Guess where I’m going with this is piggybacking off my last blog post published March 15, 2019.

Some of the rehash from that last post was how I was sick of having what I wrote about being used as ammo against me by my ex. 

That also should have ended in August but we'll see on that one.

Sadly I noticed that I had put up zero posts in 2020.  

RTWO photo by Mac Arnold

As promised, a quick glance at the 2020 hunting

log that I posted in the garage. Despite the small 

reproduction, each gig was noted on where and 

what was hunted.

But that really is more of a telltale of how busy I was working two full-time jobs. Beyond work at The Blade on the copy desk, I picked up a very laborious but decent paying job as a package handler at one of the larger shipping facilities. The corporation prefers discretion, and I will keep it at that.

However I was able to get out hunting — mainly for deer — more than I had in 2018 and 2019 in 2020 and even kept a pretty detailed calendar log. This may be worthy of getting shown on here even if it might bore most readers. But this is all things Mac hunts or has hunted, so I just may go ahead and do so. 

I had planned to post some of this spring’s turkey gigs, which had the best action in years. Mainly because I opted to pass on unfruitful Ohio outings and return to my native state of Michigan. If I remember correctly,
I got out four times to thee olde Thumb camp.

As I’ve long been saying: Great Lake State turkey hunting remains a downplayed golden nugget.

I’m hoping to put in some time for birds this fall

— before I get too obsessed over the white-tails
— and break up a bachelor brood party of toms.

I’ll be back on soon with what plans I have for the upcoming seasons. They certainly won’t be as 

ambitious as they have been in years gone by as now we will undertake Operation Restore Finances.

It was long ordeal, and I’m glad it is finally over.  Whew … relief! It’s going to take time to sink in that’s for sure!