Cuz, Brag, Rye and I close out the 04-05 rabbit season today with another hunt out past the Dixie community. There will be one final post to the Rabbit Journal 04-05 before I put up next years. Make that two final posts. Todays details and a link to the new journal

Julie, Dixie and Maizie are on a hunt for the first time without Brag or myself. I met Tiny at the old K-Marts in Phenix City to drop off the dogs after Brag canceled out on this Sunday hunt because of sprinkles. Sprinkles?

I'll be in Church, so I can't attend the hunt but it looks like it will be fun despite the rain. They had a truck load of teens and pre-teens. This hunt was important because because one of the participants was bringing his pre-teen son and he was the one who got us access to the 13 rabbit land.

All i can do is pace the floors this afternoon and hope the girls mind their manners and do me proud.

Update: The girls are back and they did do me proud. The rain was to much for Cuz and crew, but they did get 5 rabbits in an abreviated two hour hunt. A pair of deer ran out from where the dogs were running. Cuz feared the worst as the dogs approached the truck trail but Rye shot a rabbit that was behind and to one side of the deer. Mazie, Julie and Dixie were right behind the rabbit. Cuz reports that one time the pack of five dogs split up and had three different rabbits going.
We plan for the last hunt of this season to be on this property tomorrow. We've taken 29 rabbits on a 2 hour hunt, two half day hunts and one all day hunt.

Julie and Dixie looked wore out when I got them from the pen this morning for another hunt at the Capps place. Only Maizie showed any spark, but then she is always a happy dog.

The Rabbit Hunters decided to get while the getting was good and decided to go out to the Capps place for the third time in a row. After today, we've killed 24 rabbits in two half day and one full day of hunting

Uncle NoPass was going on his first and only rabbit hunt of this season, but canceled at the last minute. His eighty four years have caught up with him. It’s sad, but an era has passed.

was the greeting that Cuz gave Brag and I as we pulled up next to where he waited with Rye and Tiny.We were a whole ten minutes late. Nothing compared to how much time Brag and I often had to kill waiting as Cuz fiddle farted getting his gear together.

We were going to hunt the same property where Brag had pulled Cuz’s full sized Dodge out of a mudhole with his “Toy”ota city truck.
Heh

I'll catch it up later.
Brag, Rye, Cuz and myself got 13 rabbits today. Yours truely got 5.
Rabbit hunt again tomorrow.

Cuz stuck his full size Dodge truck and Brag had to pull him out with his little Toyota. It's unlikely that Cuz will hear the end of that anytime soon. After Brag got him out of the hole, Cuz's truck just stopped running. The rest of the morning was spent going to get a new battery that didn't solve the problem and finally giving up and calling a tow truck. We ate the lunch that Rye provided of souse meat, hoop cheese, pickles, peanutbutter and crackers. Yeah, I know. There's just no accounting for taste.

the Capp's place out past Crawford, Alabama this morning with Cuz, Rye and Brag.
And of course, Julie, Dixie, Maizie, Judy and lady

past Crawford, Alabama was a bust. Only one rabbit, but we talked to some pretty good ol boys. We did get one rabbit out of three races. The bunnies would race down the thick hillside into a bottom filled with sheets of water and a creek that had more twists and turns than I've seen in a while. One of them did get this

yesterday was only fair. We were two for four. But on the good side, the dogs, Julie, Dixie, Maizie, and Judy didn't run any trash.

Dixie and Julie conferenced for a minute about a scent before jumping the rabbit in the bottom below and running it to Dustin and Tyler

this morning on our hunting lease on a pine plantation near Seale, Alabama. It's expected that it will consist of Myself, Rye, Cuz's boy "Run", Dusty, and his father. Time is getting short in this season. It's a shame that I lost most of January to health reasons. But the good thing is that most of the problems have ended on the good side.

The Rabbit Journal Picture Show 2004-2005.
(so far)

Some of them want the deer season expanded into February. Rabbit hunters are already pretty much restricted to that month because deer season is closed and we can finally hunt some closed deer club property. Most deer hunters are scared that we might scare their precious deer off the property and don't even want us on the property in February.

I agree with Uncle NoPass. Deer hunting will be the ruin of hunting in this country with their no trespassing signs and restricted memberships. Maybe their season should be shortened back to mid- January

that is rimfire's last as a free man are posted. I'm running late for church, so the details and notes will be added to the page later

is Saturday in Hatchachubbee, Alabama.
Djmed is even coming down despite having to meet us at 6:15 central time

The results of the needle biopsy that I got as part of a second opinion by Dr Blythe on the neck mass is that

the Brown Road hunt on Sunday ( I showed up after church) was a success despite only getting 3 and four rabbits respectively. The dogs did their part, it was a combination of to few hunters and some sorry shots that lead to the few rabbits taken.

I'll post more including some pictures, maybe tomorrow. I have to attend to some health matters in Opelika today. I get the results of the needle biopsy and acat scan on my neck today.

I told GF and her mom that I get the results of the needle biopsy and cat scan on my neck today and if I get the results that Dr. Blythe expects then there really is no reason to hurry up the ma..mar..marri..dang, the ocassion since I might live a good while. All that seemed to do was to put them into high gear in making the arrangements. It seems that they've forgotten the proper steps to all this.

Gf has bought a dress for the occasion and got the permit, not to mention arranging for the preacher. It looks like it will be on Monday, so as not to interfere with rabbit season. The reception will be the first weekend in March for the same reason.

I was hauled around to various stores yesterday on the theory that I can’t wear jeans or camo. I tried to put my foot down about wearing a tie but gf promptly put hers down on top. I won’t be buried wearing one but it looks like I have very little choice in anything related to the we wed er mar marri dang, the matters at hand

I’ve learned I have only one true function in all this and that’s to show up. I’ve received strict orders to not be one of the briar bitches on the rabbit hunts this week and weekend. Something about giving the scratches on my face and neck time to heal before the ceremony and picture taking.

with Brag and cuz down at the Gray's place near Pittsview. Mazie, Julie and Dixie say it's about time. I had promised them I would take them out for a run Wednesday or Thursday, but the weather interferred. Tomorrow is the Brown Road hunt. I'll join them after church.
Details to follow.