Woman Midwest-style

Forget your cancer - have some fun today July 4th, 2014: Between surgeries... being outdoors was the best therapy after breast cancer. As a get away a week before my 'implants' surgery, we canoed  Big Tebo Creek and shot pistols at Clinton's outdoor firing range. My sly husband switched out my .38 bullets with 357 rounds - see the fire! We had a blast hahaha!! My SINCERE THANKS to all of my friends and likes in Googlesland ! Have fun and be safe today - enjoy your families and friends and your FREEDOM!!

       A boat ride in pitch dark across the coves, a rocky hillside climb was the start of our deer season open...      Cold water chopped at the hull as we raced through the main channel. Ed's DIY boat headlights shone along past the cold waves, revealing jagged stubs of trees. In the summertime they are connected by jugs strung on trot-lines, bobbing with an occasional Channel-cat on, suspended in the deep water.      We skirted past those wooden stalagmites left standing when the channel was flooded, forming the lake. My quilted vest collar wrapped snug against my neck, I braced against the chilly November wind that hugged the shoreline. Fun memories of summer fishing quickly subsided in hopes of a shot at a good deer beyond the boulders, and tree limbs strewn en masse that made my climb difficult with a backpack and rife strapped to my back. I felt more like a pack-mule. And just as stubborn.      My husband guided me, shone the mega flashlight along the rubble t

ENJOY THE FUN    President Truman is honorable namesake of the largest man-made reservoir in central Missouri.  In conjunction with  Harry S. Truman State Park  of which has prime fishing and its surrounding 'public use' hunting areas, our home-base hunting grounds are mainly in Henry and Benton counties for my husband and me due to familiarity of the region.   Fishing at its core,  Missouri's Department of Conservation  regulates all land and wildlife management that results in Missouri's claim to an abundance of game.  With over 55,600 acres of water surface, 958 miles of shoreline  Truman Lake Reservoir  has a plethora of coves, sandy banks and fishing holes out-of-the-public-eye.  Those little-known places are our favorites as  any  fisherman always tries to obtain.  Very rough back country, even small ridges in the Ozarks, cliffs can be deadly at night.  Boating deep into land-locked off-shore timber there, my husband and I  hunt  more deer and flocks of turk