15C sunny
Weather got up into the 20's yesterday.
We bowled in pm and phone calls last night.
Cheryl just stopped by so will get this away. for today

He unloaded the deer, his oars the axe and his pack then poled the raft to the rocks the rope had tangled in the day before. He tied a new rock onto the end of his rope and lowered it down into the small cluster of rocks. As he was a few feet off shore he had to jump into the water and wade to the beach.

He then lifted the deer and put it across his shoulders but immediately decided it was too heavy. He lowered it again, cut off the head then after a moments hesitation, laid the carcass on it’s back and using the axe cut it length wise into two pieces by cutting the ribs along one side of the back bone. He completed the task with the filleting knife.

Bob carried one half up onto the trail, returned for the axe and selecting a tree, cut off a limb just over head height, leaving a six inch stub. Next he cut along the back of the hind leg of the deer creating a slit just above the hoof. He raised the side and slid the slit over the branch stub. The side was now just clear of the ground.

He went back to the other half then unslung his pack and crammed the liver and heart into it. Then repositioned it on his back and stooping easily lifted the side and slung it up and around his neck, the center resting on his pack and shoulders. He picked up the bow and as he passed the hanging side stooped and picked up the axe and carried on along the trail.