My week started off on Thursday before heading North. In the process of getting last minutes chores done with replacing horse fencing, I scratched my cornea on a branch...couldn't even open my left eye. Too late to get a doctor's appointment, so my associate veterinarians checked it out, got some ophthalmic antibiotics, and a cool homemade patch! I think they were more worried about treating the Boss that seeing any attack dogs
Friday arrived and Old One Eye picked up JC & Whip at at Logan airport then Paul V brought Jay & Steve to my house for the long waiting period before heading out at night. Everyone got to know each other and we shot a bunch of bows...I had a couple extras in case any one's bow got lost in transit
Molly fixed some Bar-B-Q ribs so we could start on a full stomach. Then Ken called from the group in Western Mass, we had decided to meet up with them around midnight on the road but everyone was so pumped to get going that we started early. As it turned out we got to La Tuque around 5:30 am instead of the prearranged time to meet the 1st group at 10:30 am! I'm really thankful to JC & Whip who drove my car all night as I couldn't see at all with the head light glare...at least that's what I told them
The stories from the 1st group really woke everyone up and we finally rolled into camp to get started.
The only downside to the beginning was because of my vision, I decided at the last minute Not to bring Tilly (my tracking wire haired Daschund)...that proved to be a mistake as bears are very hard to pick up a blood trail :( Doc