Fellas - I will be out on this season's first spotting run in exactly 12 hours. I've been holding off, b/c the bigdeer around here get pretty skittish in front of the lights due to poaching pressure every year, so you have to pick your spots and catch them off guard.

If you start spotting them at 9, they'll stay bedded until 10. If you start waiting until 10, they'll hide until 11. Well, legal spotting hours end at 11:00 here, so if you keep pushing, they'll pattern you right out of the game. Nobody's started spotting yet, and there's enough headgear in place to see what's really lurking. By the end of this month, there will be nonstop spotting traffic patrolling the local bean and hayfields. Usually the big bucks get wise to that and shy away.

We've had two solid days of rain, and a low pressure front has finally pushed through and stabilized. It should be clear tonight with good activity.

I'll take thecamera and camera bino's, hopefully I can get enough light on one of the big boys to catch him on film.

Troy - you'll have to post those videos online somewhere when you get time.

So your boy's into Tee Ball eh? The only thing I remember about Tee Ball was that our coach (my dad) gave each of us ridiculous nicknames (mine was Fireball), then proceeded to paint lines under our eyes with that black tar stuff so that we looked like big leaguers. He had Big League Chew for us too. Funny how you don't remember the games, but all the other stuff. I remember if it wasn't raining,the whole team got to go for ice cream after the game if we won. Once we got to Little League, we graduated fromice cream to sunflower seeds.

So how many of our otherteammates have kids?