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Unread 04-17-2020, 03:35 PM   #1
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I remember the old commercial for a butter substitute that cautioned "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" I didn't purposefully do anything to fool her, but she sure did let us know who was in charge here in North Missouri. Turkey season begins on Monday. Temperatures are forecast to be in the 50s by Sunday, but after about 10" of heavy, wet snow, I may be sitting in slush to open the season. In the 40 years I've Spring turkey hunted here in Missouri, I've sat in snow for two openers. Monday may be my third.
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Here's a few photos for this Friday from somewhere just south of the Iowa border.

1.) Wednesday we had a skiff of snow greet us when I let the dogs out before breakfast. Cedar and Aspen always "point" the field next door, our prairie reestablishment project. It frequently holds some deer or a turkey or two. They often "talk each other" into a point that they will hold until I get exasperated and goose them along to get their business done.
2.) This morning we woke up to about 10" of the wet, heavy kind of snow. That's my barn/studio in the background where I spend days like this. The good news was that I did not have to mow the grass!
3.) The old adage has it that when the redbuds bloom its time to hunt turkeys. I'm not sure the originator of that adage had snow in mind when he first came up with it.
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