Good morning, GoGo. It's 47 in Louisville, going to 64. Rain is called for sometime in the afternoon, but looking at the front on radar, I don't think it'll be here until after dinner. Moving pretty slow it seems to me.
Dean, your elk success has me both jealous and upset. Here in Kentucky, hunters bought lottery tickets and such from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for probably 20 years, with the profits going toward one day bringing elk back to our state. We finally started bringing elk in from 1997 to 2002 and they really thrived. We now have the largest herd east of the Mississippi and have been holding a lottery for permits for at least 15 years or so, run by our fish and game department of course. The biggest problem is there is plenty of politics involved and political corruption is well established in our state. I dutifully paid and entered the lottery for 10-12 years, but quit doing so a few years ago when I decided it just amounted to a donation. If you dig deep enough, you'll find certain families and certain counties who've been "drawn" in the lottery many, many times. In other areas you'll find entire conservation clubs whose members have bought tickets for years and no one was ever drawn. It's true that my chances of being drawn are zero if I don't pay and enter, but my heart's just not in it anymore.
Got my pop-up blind set yesterday and put out a little more corn. Looks like the deer worked over the corn that was put out last weekend, although it can be hard to tell. Lots of turkeys and squirrels in that area and they tear into the corn as well. As always, I succumbed to temptation and bought some attractor feed stuff, too. I think I got a bag of apple-scented and a bag of acorn this year. It seems to attract my money way more than it attracts deer, but I frequently play the game. Trees are at their peak color here around Louisville and I enjoyed them while out yesterday.
Y'all have a great Lord's Day and be safe out there.
