Karl's Kolumn

HAPPY THANKSGIVING… I hope you are enjoying every minute of your Thanksgiving Holiday among family and friends. This happiest of times marks the beginning of the Christmas season. Be kind, be happy, be fair, share your holiday largess to those less fortunate.

Be kind to your friends in the forest, they might be someone’s four-footed friends.

We are all guilty of it. We see a hunter with mismatch camo and old single-shot 12-gauge shotgun. And he is sporting his deer he just harvested on the back of his old truck. It’s a doe or more likely a smaller buck. But he’s happy and grinning from ear to ear like he just killed the new world record! So, you laugh and joke with your buddies as he goes by. While leaning against your brand new truck, and your name brand new matching camo.

Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the deer on the back of his truck means a lot more to him than just big antlers… maybe he’s happy? Maybe he is a third shift blue collar worker at the local sawmill, just trying to pay his bills and keep gas in his old truck.

Maybe he doesn’t have the fancy game cameras and big food lot that you have. Or the big fancy hunting blinds that cost more than his old truck. Maybe he’s happy because he finally didn’t have to work this weekend.

But what he does care about is putting food on the table for his family at home, and knowing that they’re going to eat good for now. And that my friends will put a smile on any true sportsman’s face.

So, good luck to all the hunters out there with the rest of your season. Just remember this, support each other and be happy for each other no matter how big the harvest is, because to some folks it means a lot more than the size of the antlers.