“You need to clean your ol’ nasty truck,” my wife scolded. “The inside stinks, and food plots are growing in the bed. I won’t ride in it again until you wash it. I’m downright embarrassed.”
She’s kinda’ right. After all, my truck does show dirt real bad because it’s white. Well, it used to be white. But now it’s sorta’ grayish, so I guess it really is time for its semi-annual bath.
You wouldn’t believe it, but I’m actually very conscientious about cleaning my truck. It gets a bath before and after every deer season … whether it needs it or not. I sometimes put it off a month or so, however, because I know it’s only gonna get dirty again! Pretty sound reasoning, don’t you think?
But when I do give my truck a bath, it’s not all about an external cleansing. In fact, I really do it right - from wiping down the dash, mirrors and windshield to washing the floor mats and vacuuming out the dust and cobwebs. And I sometimes find things I thought were forever lost. But when I’m finished, you can eat pancakes off the floorboard. Syrup and all.
As yet, though, I haven’t made time to give my truck its first bath this year, and I was rudely reminded of that fact just recently, and not only by my wife. On the last day of deer season, I hastily opened the back door to grab a roll of “emergency” paper (Charmin), only to find my roll had been chewed to bits and scattered all over. It looked like a snow storm had struck the back floorboard.
I even saw the little rodent responsible for the mess as it scrambled under the front seat and up into the dash. I said some things I shouldn’t have said, asked for forgiveness and set a trap for the little @#&*. I’ll spare you the misery of that story and get around to boring you in some future Weekly Mistake.
In the end, I guess the wife was right. Still, I’m thinking about putting it off another couple of weeks because turkey season will be upon us. Then, there will be no real reason to wash my truck until that season is over...
The youth turkey season opens in just over a week on March 7, and ends March 13. During that time, hunters 15 and under may harvest one gobbler of any age or beard length per day. Youngsters have a three-bird limit.
Then the adults can begin to legally hunt March 14 until May 1. The bag limit is one gobbler with a six-inch beard or longer per day, three per spring season.
If you’re a turkey hunter, it’s time to get your ducks in a row, so to speak. Of course I’ll bore you more on that subject during our next meeting, but there is one thing you oughta do until opening day. Get out and SCOUT. You can’t kill turkeys where there are none, no matter how well you call. So get out in the woods and fields and locate them.
To help you get ready for the season, the Stone County Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation is having its annual banquet March 9, at the Stone County Fairgrounds, Airport Road, Wiggins. It’ll be well worth the short trip to join in a night of food, fun, raffles and auction items. Make plans to attend. For more information, call Mike at (228) 326-2655.
It’s a great time to be a turkey hunter in Mississippi. So get ready to go. And when you do, try to take a kid with you … every time you can.
Email DiFatta at pdifatta@hotmail.com
“You need to clean your ol’ nasty truck,” my wife scolded. “The inside stinks, and food plots are growing in the bed. I won’t ride in it again until you wash it. I’m downright embarrassed.”
She’s kinda’ right. After all, my truck does show dirt real bad because it’s white. Well, it used to be white. But now it’s sorta’ grayish, so I guess it really is time for its semi-annual bath.
You wouldn’t believe it, but I’m actually very conscientious about cleaning my truck. It gets a bath before and after every deer season … whether it needs it or not. I sometimes put it off a month or so, however, because I know it’s only gonna get dirty again! Pretty sound reasoning, don’t you think?
But when I do give my truck a bath, it’s not all about an external cleansing. In fact, I really do it right - from wiping down the dash, mirrors and windshield to washing the floor mats and vacuuming out the dust and cobwebs. And I sometimes find things I thought were forever lost. But when I’m finished, you can eat pancakes off the floorboard. Syrup and all.
As yet, though, I haven’t made time to give my truck its first bath this year, and I was rudely reminded of that fact just recently, and not only by my wife. On the last day of deer season, I hastily opened the back door to grab a roll of “emergency” paper (Charmin), only to find my roll had been chewed to bits and scattered all over. It looked like a snow storm had struck the back floorboard.
I even saw the little rodent responsible for the mess as it scrambled under the front seat and up into the dash. I said some things I shouldn’t have said, asked for forgiveness and set a trap for the little @#&*. I’ll spare you the misery of that story and get around to boring you in some future Weekly Mistake.
In the end, I guess the wife was right. Still, I’m thinking about putting it off another couple of weeks because turkey season will be upon us. Then, there will be no real reason to wash my truck until that season is over...
The youth turkey season opens in just over a week on March 7, and ends March 13. During that time, hunters 15 and under may harvest one gobbler of any age or beard length per day. Youngsters have a three-bird limit.
Then the adults can begin to legally hunt March 14 until May 1. The bag limit is one gobbler with a six-inch beard or longer per day, three per spring season.
If you’re a turkey hunter, it’s time to get your ducks in a row, so to speak. Of course I’ll bore you more on that subject during our next meeting, but there is one thing you oughta do until opening day. Get out and SCOUT. You can’t kill turkeys where there are none, no matter how well you call. So get out in the woods and fields and locate them.
To help you get ready for the season, the Stone County Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation is having its annual banquet March 9, at the Stone County Fairgrounds, Airport Road, Wiggins. It’ll be well worth the short trip to join in a night of food, fun, raffles and auction items. Make plans to attend. For more information, call Mike at (228) 326-2655.
It’s a great time to be a turkey hunter in Mississippi. So get ready to go. And when you do, try to take a kid with you … every time you can.
Email DiFatta at pdifatta@hotmail.com
