Helping serve the Wounded Warriors was a lot more emotional than I thought it would be... I sat & talked with a young man for about 45 minutes who just broke my heart. (He was one of the 1st to harvest a deer that morning so he had a long wait before he could go back out to try for a 2nd.) He'd been injured by an IED and is still facing more surgeries. He can't even eat venison but he was at the hunt to try to get meat for his families. He almost started crying telling me how hard it is on them now that he can't support them, that this hunt at least lets him give them something. (And to add insult to his injuries, he can't even eat any red meat - or even dairy products - after contracting severe Alpha Gal Syndrome.)

Anyway, we served a Thanksgiving dinner to somehwere around 70 people: the veterans, their guides, representatives of Fish & Wildlife, wildlife biologists, volunteers, and a group from the Univ of KY collecting ticks from the harvested deer for a research project.













After serving lunch & cleaning up to hand over to the group that would be providing dinner, I headed to the club for the Ladies Group. Our instructor is sadistic... I was just getting tolerable at shooting my pistols from a single position. Saturday, he started making us move to different stations ON A TIMER!!!! Two shots on paper, move to 2nd station, 5 shots on steel targets, move to station, two shots on paper. And you weren't allowed to move stations until you'd successfully hit all the targets at your current station. My best time was abyssmal 51 seconds.... Several runs were complicated by equipment issues. My favorite pistol kept jamming - I've gotta figure out how to take it apart to see what's going on with it. And the 9mm I was using only had 1 15-round mag and the course was a miniumum of 9 shots so if I exceeded the 15 (which I do when shooting a 9mm), I was out. I came home and ordered 2 more 15-round mags for it for future reference...

I was asleep before 8:00 Saturday night!!!!!!

Sunday, I drove down to Loretto KY and met up with T & Meg to tour the Maker's Mark Distillery and Chihuly exhibit. I've been a HUGE Chihuly fan for years & years & years so this was a bucket list excursion for me!!! And MM puts on a heckuva distillery tour - one of the best ones I've been on in recent years.