#one of the thorns poked through my pants and into my knee cap but i couldn't see it

[blue-spruce-bruce]

Went hunting today in an area that's like only for hunting so there's no trails or anything. I bushwacked through scrub oak and a million thorny bushes for most of the morning, finding hardly any sign but loads of cactus! The nights have been cold for the last two or so weeks so the prickly pear are ripe. A majority of them were already eaten by deer, but I got a nice little handful of ripe ones!!!

It's funny to me how I used to think about early humans and it's either hunter or gatherer but you do both simultaneously. I'm hunting for cactus fruit, I'm gathering indicators to where rabbit might be. And had everything gone according to plan I would have cooked and served them together.

Tomorrow I'm heading back out to a spot about 3 air miles, or as the crow flies to the North but it'll take me an extra 25 minutes to drive there; mountains are a trip man. Today I was hunting riiiiight where the prairie meets the foothills and tomorrow will be another mile deeper in. I'm so happy I get to do this now after not being able to for so many years.