Feeling the pressures to be prepared.

Besides my regular job paying the bills I have been working hard to get all of the hunny do's completed prior to the Opener of our IA deer season. On top of that I have been trying to squeeze time top set this years deer stands. I usually put out any where from 12-15+ different stand cites to hunt any and all winds, weather conditions and or if I see a target deer in a particular area I will be ready to go. This year has been extremely hectic. I am way behind on all preparations for the season opener. It has been a very, very wet year here in IA. So wet it is looking like I will not be able to plant my fall food plots as planned. I have yet to begin to hang stands. I have a tower blind I am hoping to have completed in time for my sons youth season as well. We have a long way to go to get the remainder of our wood cut for the winter, however I am optimistic I will get it all done and turn in to hunt mode come Oct. 1! Trail cameras are finally picking up some nice bruisers in the fields, mineral sites are being obliterated, and the water on the DesMoins River where I live is finally receding. I know it will all come together in time. You see, this year it is the rain, last year it was surgery on my foot that put me behind the ball, the year before that I had surgery on my shoulder that laid me up for a few months where I could not even shoot my bow let alone hang stands and cut wood. Every year I feel the same pressures to get all my preparations done for hunting season. No, I am no rookie to feeling the pressures to get everything accomplished prior to bow opener, it is really the norm. That is what I need to keep telling my self. Besides hunting the Deer heaven of IA, I have an Ill gun hunt planned (which I still need to go and hang stands over there as well), a Dove hunt in Ill and if all goes well a trip to WI to gun hunt deer at my cabin nestled in the BIG woods.
If you are like me you have busy schedules full of family obligations, work that never seems to end, preparations that still need to be completed and everything else that comes up in between. My only thought is, “its really no different than last year, once season comes I’ll be ready if I just keep plugging away”.
With that, now its off to the state fair to watch my daughter perform her presentation in a 4-H competition. Guess this means no cutting wood tonight either, but I know I will be ready come bow season one way or another. :)