Thursday, February 21, 2008

Surprize Birthday Gift

The year was 1992 , early Feburaury and I was working a commercial plumbing job in Murfreesboro, Tenn.. My job had just played out as we finished the construction on the new city hall so my wife and I decided it was time for a change. We packed up everything we had and moved to Bushnell,Florida where I started a job at Ace Hardware in Wildwood,Florida until a training class as a correctional officer started in June after which I was hired on as a correctional officer in the kitchen at Marian Correctional Facility in Ocala,Florida. We were living near my brother-in-law ( Allen Cole ) who was also a correctional officer and my birthday was approaching in October but deer season was opening in September and one evening after work I was picked up by my wife,brother-in-law and sister-in-law and was told we were going to dinner but that my brother-in-law had to go get his bow worked on first. We got to this little country bow shop and as I walked in I began looking at all the bows and eqippment on the walls when the owner approached asking if he could help me. I told him I was just looking while waiting on my brother-in-law an the man told me he had a new bow that I might like.The man went in the back room and came out with a new PSE Blacklightening, handed it to me and ask what I thought of it. At that moment my wife stepped up and whispered in my ear that it was mine and happy birthday at which time the owner also fixed it up with arrows,sight,release,eye sight, broad heads, silencers and even took me outside to his range and helped me sight it in. Now you talk about someone that was blown away with surprize and happy, that was me. Today I still have the same PSE bow with eqippment and have killed a few nice deer with it. Perhaps one day I will buy a new bow but nothing I feel will ever compare to my Pse Blacklightening which I will continue to use till I can't shoot any more. Thank you Honey for giving me the best surprize birthday gift of a lifetime,one that I'll always charish.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's a great story. I always think the best presents are given when someone knows you well enough to find something you'll really like. Sounds like that birthday was a good one.

deerslayer said...

Kristine: yes that was probably the best birthday I've ever had but I still have 50 more coming so I wont give up for another one like it.

Marian Ann Love said...

I enjoyed reading about your special birthday present...those or the ones you will never forget. Glad you have harvested deer with it..even more meaningful! What a gift of love. Take care my friend..Marian :)

deerslayer said...

Marian; Thanks for stopping by and glad you liked the post. Though it is probably alittle outdated with the new faster versions it will always remain my best bow and will always be used every year even if it does get replaced.