Mrs. Billethead And Her Day Off

[BilletHead]

Mrs. BilletHead has Thursdays off. She asks last night are we going dove hunting? Sure if you want. We got 13 on Monday and on Tuesday I did another 15. Gave it rest Wednesday. So the Alarm goes off at five this morning. I have been fighting a head cold and finally got a good night of rest. I grunt when it went off and started to fall back asleep. Soon I feel a poke. Aren't we going? Well let me see what it is doing outside. I take a quick wiz, put my glasses on and go out the door to check the weather and thermometer. Instantally humid hits my face and the cold glasses fog up as I peer at the temp. 76 degrees. I crawl back in bed and get poked again. I want to go. Alright so we get up and do breakfast. Then hit the road for the short trip to the field. Get sit up,

Mrs. BilletHead watching the sun rise,

The results were great. I was done with 15 birds by eight. I shot better than I have ever for doves. 15 for 19 shots. Monday I shot a modified choke and was either missing or tearing up birds, Tuesday I shot the Mrs. gun with a improved cylinder and done way better so this morning I changed chokes and did well. The Mrs. ended up with 7 birds and averaged three shells per bird but get this she downed two birds with one shot. I asked her did you do this on purpose? Heck no, at least she was honest in the answer,

Got the birds cleaned and took a drive to Joplin for something to do. Came home and I started the charcoal grill. On the menu was bacon wrapped dove. This is my favorite way to eat them. A strip of bacon enclosing the entire breast and pinned with a toothpick.

Put them on the hot grill where they started getting happy, more happy and the happiest of all. I cook then until the bacon gets done, not too crispy but more on what I call the wormy side,

And now it was time for us to be happy. Sided with a nice salad and a half of a baked potato topped with sharp cheddar cheese and an adult beverage of choice. A good old ice cold blue moon,

I am so glad she kept poking me to get up!

BilletHead

[Feathers and Fins]

sweet HUNT, I really need to stop blasting geese and get up to MO

[tho1mas]

You are right about the best way to cook doves - made my mouth water. Way to go.

[ness]

Dang, that looks like a great hunt followed by a great dinner. Good going there.

[Flysmallie]

Wow that looks good. Maybe I need to start dove hunting again.

[mic]

That is so awesome. Thanks for sharing... I think. Now I'm hungry.

[BilletHead]

Thanks gents,

A good day for sure. Hoping there is many more like this for the rest of my life. Do what you can with the one you love. A life time is limited,

BilletHead

[Mitch f]

Great post!

You guys need to open a restaurant!!

I would also like to announce that I have made some headway getting my wife interested in fishing, she said last week she wanted to take the kids to fish at Busch wildlife after work. Yeah!.....all that work to get to this point!

[BilletHead]

There you go Mitch. Baby steps. Once she gets hooked an sees what it is all about things will change. When we first married neither one of us could cook. I remember the first time we had my parents over to dinner. Fried chicken with mashed taters and gravy. You could stand a spoon in the gravy and it would just stand there. Had the consistency of drywall mud. Oh my the memories.

BilletHead

[JohnP]

What they said. Good stuff as usual Billethead.