Wow! time flies.... when your having fun

We have been busy bees here at the Citadel the last week.
On Tuesday Dan took the first deer of the season (I will post pictures) and today Austin took his first deer (ever)!!! We have a lot of deer here - as does all of the area, and we feel it is important to hunt for two reasons; for ourselves (meat etc.) and to help manage the deer poplulation.  Both Dan and Austin took bucks of good size but with smaller racks. We took the deer to be processed at a shop about half an hour away and we are looking forward to seeing what comes back. It was interesting for me to learn to field dress the deer -as I had never done it before. After doing the first one with Dan I was able to do the second one with Austin (while Dan went back out to the blind)
The chicken apparently went hunting the second time with Dan -without him being aware of it at first. Our chickens and GarnerGoat really seem to love Dan and this chicken followed him out to the blind and then back in when he decided that he was done for the evening. I'm not sure what little snippet would be funnier here. If I said the chicken was a good watch-chicken or if she had eyes like a chicken (hawk) maybe neither. It's late and I'm tired but I had to share that now we have 2 deer in the shop being processed and we couldn't be more excited. Dan and I are so proud of Austin, he had an amazing shot and he was really very impressive today. Austin's buck's head/ rack is going to be mounted so he has this as a great memory and all in all it has been a very good and very busy week.
More to follow when exhaustion is not an issue....