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12 | January/February 2019 the phone and before Sunday School and dropping in for Parent's Weekend and watching Summer respond to Terry's hand signals and watching her profile in style behind some unseen quail that was surely out there in front somewhere. Her graduation from Bunnlevel University was followed by graduate training in Junction City, Kansas, in December 2009. In the wind and snow Cumberland, Bladen, Pender and Granville counties. She has enjoyed the gluttony of the quail preserves, pointing to hundreds of the pen-raised variety grown there. When quail fields prove barren, she subscribes to the "any port in a storm" theory too. Once, at the edge of the Bladen Game Lands in White Lake, she pointed a tom turkey squatting under a deadfall. She treed a possum in Kansas; wrestled an armadillo in Oklahoma; ran a giant buck out of a midwestern plum thicket. She loves to brim fish at Franklin Johnson's pond, standing knee-deep in the mud and lunging for the bluegill as I li them out of the water. We have also pointed honeybees in the clover in the big dog pen. She has developed a hatred for the squirrels that eat the pears from the primary shade tree in the pen. Summer has a particular bark that is unique to squirrels and she fails to understand why I shoot fleeing quail while I give a pass to thieving squirrels. She has also developed a taste for the pears themselves when they fall to the ground. ere is something very funny about walking up to her pen to find her chomping a ripe pear held between her paws. with below-zero night temperatures, Summer pointed midwestern quail alongside seven other setters and two other hunters. We have since been to western Oklahoma for bobwhites. We have been many times to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia with Norman orp chasing ruffed grouse. We have enjoyed the intermittent woodcocks in swampy spots. We have found wild quail in Rock Without The Hard Edge for Fayetteville. And Local News updates throughout the day.

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