Posts Tagged ‘Tales from Wheat Creek’
An Old Hunting Story – Part 1 – Keith Makes a New Friend
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK An Old Hunting Story – Part 1 – Keith Makes a New Friend “Keith Makes a New Friend” As a New Year’s resolution, my wife and I decided that we would volunteer to spend a few hours a month at a local assisted living facility in our small town of Wheat…
Read MoreAn Old Hunting Story – Part 2 – A Near Death Experience
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK An Old Hunting Story – Part 2 – A Near Death Experience “A Near Death Experience” This is a continuation of “An Old Hunting Story” I recommend you start at the beginning! For an entire week, all I could think about was John and his amazing story. When I told my…
Read MoreAn Old Hunting Story – Part 3 – John’s Farm
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK An Old Hunting Story – Part 3 John’s Farm This is a continuation of “An Old Hunting Story” I recommend you start at the beginning! It’s been a while since I last wrote one of these “Tales From Wheat Creek” stories. I have had a few health problems, myself, that I…
Read MoreAn Old Hunting Story – Part 4 – John Goes Home for Thanksgiving
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK An Old Hunting Story – Part 4 John Goes Home for Thanksgiving This is a continuation of “An Old Hunting Story” I recommend you start at the beginning! Finally, Thanksgiving had arrived. It was a beautiful, unseasonably warm November day in Wheat Creek. My wife, Jeanne, with the help of our…
Read MoreAn Old Hunting Story – Part 5 – Christmas
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK An Old Hunting Story – Part 5 “Christmas” This is a continuation of “An Old Hunting Story” I recommend you start at the beginning! It has been a while since I last updated you about my friend, John. After we took him home for a special Thanksgiving, John seemed to gain…
Read MoreThe Season of Time
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK The Season of Time As I sit here in my tree stand, I can’t help but admire how beautiful the fall Kansas woods are. Fall came late this year, but as it has for each of my sixty-three years, it did arrive. One thing for certain, fall will always follow summer,…
Read MoreA PERFECT DREAM
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK A Perfect Dream This is a continuation from An Old Hunting Story” parts one and two followed by “John’s Farm” and “John Goes Home for Thanksgiving”. I recommend you read those stories first! It was one of those fall-summer days that the old-timers like to talk about. The calendar says it’s fall, but the weather…
Read MoreA Great Florida Hunting Story
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK A Great Florida Hunting Story (With a sad ending) I love the way our hunting traditions get passed down from generation to generation. That’s how it happened in my life. Both of my Grandfathers hunted. My Dad and all of my Uncles hunted. I started hunting at a very early age,…
Read MoreTeach them Right
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK Teach them Right It happened so fast that all I could do was act instinctively. As I came around the corner into the dimly lit alley, I saw my partner kneeling over a teenage-looking boy, who appeared to be injured. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a hooded…
Read MoreWelcome 2022 A bowhunter’s resolutions!
TALES FROM WHEAT CREEK Welcome 2022 A bowhunter’s resolutions! As I head into a New Year, I always look back to assess what I did right and where I missed the Mark. (Pun intended!) Also, like most of us, I try to make some realistic resolutions that I can, and will, live up to. This…
Read More