Sunny came home from Georgia on Friday November 14th. He tore his ACL and we scheduled him to meet with his doctor on the following Monday at 9:30 a.m. Normally I do not make appointments that early in the morning because of the chance of snowstorms but with it still being fairly early November, I thought what are the chances! Sunny was excited that if he had to be home, hunting season was a good time to be home. He has never had a chance to hunt deer and no matter how bad his knee was hurting he was gonna drag himself out to that tree stand no matter what! Of course once the boys returned home the temperatures started dropping. When he got up Saturday morning it was pouring rain....he hunted for alittle bit but then came in. Later in the day it stopped for a bit so he decided to head back out. Now the weather took a turn for the worst....the rain started again then quickly turned into freezing rain and then snow....he thought aaaah ha, I am staying out here no matter what ~ this is the weather you get your deer in. He was freezing (not use to the NY winters anymore) but determined!!! Soon the opportunity presented itself....there was his deer....right in front of him. Being his first time deer hunting his heart began to race, the excitement was almost to much, his scope was all fogged up, the snow was coming down harder...he wiped his scope and put his eye close to it because it was fogging more...He wanted to make sure his shot was good. As he pulled the trigger and kept his eye on his deer....the gun kicked back into his nose....YEP, BROKEN NOSE! Luckily for Sunny he was tied into the tree and he was sooooo cold that he really didn't feel his nose at all. It was not until he saw all the blood from his nose (inside and outside) did he realize he was hurt. He was not going to let that stop him from finding his deer. As he got out of the tree, the lightly snow covered ground gave proof to him that he hit his deer. He began to trail it when the snow turned into down pouring rain....at this point the only blood he could find was coming out of his nose. He came back to the house and was telling his brothers his exciting story when I heard all the fuss and walked into the office to see his face......"what the heck happened to you".....and he began his story all over again. Sunny's first deer hunting trip is a story I am sure he will never forget! and NO he did not find the deer but he is out hunting waiting for that BIG one to cross his path.
Okay, so if you read my earlier post you would know how nervous I get driving in snow storms especially the first one of the season. No one seems to know how to drive in the first storm. And of course I had to drive Sunny to Syracuse for his 9:30 appointment. I was happy that I filled the car with gas the night before because it took me 38 minutes to drive from Fulton to the Phoenix exit. That seems to be the point all the time where the weather clears....thank goodness. For some reason the plows had not made a pass yet through Fulton and I kept telling Sunny it would get better once we hit I-81....but NOT.....it was so stressful. Sunny kept telling me that he would drive....hahahha Mr. Need for Speed....I think not I told him....no experience of driving in snow. I told him I would take my chances, after all I have been driving for 35 years with NO accidents or tickets. We made it safely to his appointment but of course everyone there kept asking what happened to his nose and not his knee :-)
Shelby was so excited for the snow and could not wait to go out and make the first snowman of the winter...actually I think he did a great job.
His snowman has quite the character with plump cheeks.
and the buds from my magnolia tree as buttons for his chest. Does this mean WINTER is going to be long and record breaking snow falls again? Please NO not this year...we are home for the winter....dreaming of Georgia's warm weather!
