I guess good place to start would be home…is there anything more important?
I am 35, brunette, short (4’11”…quit laughing) and yes they are “REAL” …I have bLuE eyes.

I have lived in Georgia my entire life and have never traveled very far outside of the southeastern US. I took my first plane trip to Ohio March of 2006, yes I am serious… Until 2009 I had only flown on a plane twice (roundtrip counts as twice I right????).  This year I have flown to MN and San Diego, CA for Chels 16th birthday.

I was born and raised in what some would call “rural” country about 20 minutes outside of Atlanta. Grew up the only granddaughter of 7 grandchildren and was spoiled by grandparents that lived next door my entire life. My family has always lived modestly and most of my meals as a child involved some sort of wild game from the four legged variety to wings and gills. The house I was raised in even sported a “tin roof” way before they were “IN” and came in a variety of fancy colors to match shutters (well unless you count rust as a color). I honestly could not see the good in being raised so modestly with the fear of God and Daddy until I grew up. I now know that I can survive most anything because I can honestly put “need” before “want“. I don’t consider a cell phone a necessity or “need” but a gun and bow are a must have. I will always be able to provide food and shelter with the skills I have learned from my family and hunting friends.





I am divorced and raising my beautiful and amazing sixteen year old daughter with the help of my Mom on the thirty six acres that my family moved to and built homes on in 2005.  I am blessed to have my Mom living within six hundred feet and my brother only another eight hundred or so past that. We decided to grab a piece of heaven and get farther away so we moved about a hour and a half southeast of Atlanta. After 4 years of work we now have 3 homes, a dove field, pastures, barns, miles of fence and a great place to sit on the porch and enjoy nature.
Our place is small and we are surrounded by non-managed hunting land, which makes it tough, but we have still seen some really nice bucks in 2007 and 2008. We plant millet and sunflower for the dove and feed a high protein pellet and corn in feeders with planted oats for the deer. I have spent hundreds of hours watching and filming deer, rabbit and birds in my backyard and love every second of it (well except that time I forgot my ThermaCell and came back home with hundreds of mosquito bites). In four hunting seasons there have only been 3 deer harvested off our property. My daughter took a HUGE corn horn spike in 2005 and I took a doe which was my very first bow kill ever in 2008.




I can’t wait to see the bucks come back this spring, I have a few that I really hope managed to make it. Between gardening and canning this summer you will find me watching the antler growth at thirty feet from a blind with camera ready.  I am looking forward to opportunities to bow hunt in some really great places with awesome people this year. The most recent was a 4 day bow hunt in Kentucky, I came home full of great memories and a new found appreciation for a Heater Body Suit. I did mention that I am a southern girl right?!?! I never imagined I would bow hunt in those temps, cold doesn’t even begin to describe it!