Good morning folks.
Sunny, beautiful day in the east. Back from a run, followed by a short hike.
Bernie, that story about the guy being shot by a deer hunter reminded me of being in central Pennsylvania back in the early 1980s working on a pipeline job -- we were laying a gas line across the Susquehanna River.
On the first weekend of deer season in November we had Sunday off, and I was thinking I'd just hike out into a wooded area near where we were working and see some scenery.
I picked up a local paper on my way out to the woods and a story caught my eye: It warned people heading out into the woods to be careful, and noted, "There will be more armed people in the woods of Pennsylvania than there were armed American troops in Vietnam at the height of the war..." That sort of blew my mind and I decided I'd just hang around the local town where we were working.
That was more than 40 years ago, but I googled this story, and apparently things haven't changed much:
All 70,000 antlerless deer tags in Wildlife Management Unit 5C, which encompasses the majority of the Lehigh Valley, have sold out.
www.lehighvalleylive.com