I've got priorities

I become single-minded in the fall, thinking of little but hunting.

Even in this election year.

Oh, I watch the news, listen to the radio and read the newspaper. But it’s hard for me to care what the candidates are saying when all I can think about is that last missed shot – at a sharptail flying straightaway in easy range. Maybe I didn’t get my head down, didn’t raise the gun on the follow through. Heck, it probably was the gun. I must need a new one or at least a different box of shells. I often blame the gun and the shells.

Then I begin to worry I’m spending too much time chasing the dogs i...