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Show Thursday, October 13, 2005 The Gunnison Valley Gazette Page 4 Little poems and locks of hair Club News By HARRIET BAUMGARDNER It's good to be back after the bout I've had with sickness. Goldie did a wonderful, job last week and we do so appreciate her for filling in. May the good Lord bless her for her help. Elda reported that the state is cutting back on their assistance to the senior programs. She got a letter from Salt Lake and with this terrible mess the country is in right now, it looks like the older folks are going to be among the first to suffer. Elda says we need to write Senator Hatch and see if he can assist the seniors in the state. She wrote a letter to him one time and got a real nice letter back, which made her feel special. The truth is, everybody got that letter. The envelope was addressed 'Boxholder'. Elda believes to this day that she had a genuine note that was mailed directly to her from Mr. Hatch. We formed a committee to look at some of the things the club might do if we can't go anywhere. Among the ideas were scrapbooks, compiling recipes, starting a ladies double quartet, volunteering at the hospital Hayden's Turkey Living the Outdoor Lifestyle and schools and starting a the schools. That particular idea did not meet with painting class. Opal suggested the wide approval. Thelma has scrapbook idea because it a grandson who drives her has become so popular with crazy with his bad behavior the younger set. She said and she said the last place her daughter has made some in the world she wants to be books that will become heir- is around kids his age. He is looms in her family. Most of 13. Hazel thinks we should the ladies remember the old start a music group and we style books, a big book with could sing at funerals and empty pages and we would put little poems and locks of summer programs. It's not a hair and pictures in them. bad idea, but none of us have They were just delightful. Of the voices we had when we course, they didn't last for- were younger and I wouldn't ever. Usually the first thing want to offend anyone with to go was the scotch tape we a horrible song. Elva Jensen used to hold the pictures in. accompanied one of our laIt would turn yellow and get dies one time and when she brittle and wouldn't stick af- started to sing she was a ter a while. Those little pa- full octave off. Poor Elva did per corners didn't hold too her best to get her where well either, and they were she needed to be, but the hard to place if a person had poor dear didn't catch on even a hint of arthritis. But and Elva had to play louder these things they are mak- and louder just to cover up ing today are just beautiful, the problem. It was just awand we may consider getting ful, and I am saying that into it. The only thing will as a friend. Singing would be the cost of all the stuff to be alright of the old songs that haven't been used in a get going. Helen proposed the reci- while. There's a Tear in My pe idea. She thinks we could Eye', 'Please Release Me' put a bunch in a book and and 'He'll Have to Go' are sell them around the valley. some of my favorites. HonHelen does have some good estly, I'm not all that certain recipes but not all the la- those songs are appropriate dies do, and I wouldn't want for respectable ladies to be to see any feelings hurt. I singing in public. doubt this will work. EvHint of the week: Ifyou erybody has several recipe want to keep onions fresh, books and one more won't take an old pair of panty be all that appealing to the hose and tie knots down the average homemaker. legs. Cut a slot, and put an Erma thinks the vol- onion ia between the knots. unteer idea would be good. It keeps the onions separatShe thought we could see if ed and they stay better a lot the hospital would like us to longer. You can hang them be Pink Ladies on a limited in the pantry on a hook. basis. Erma also said that Next week we will be diswe could go and help out at cussing Halloween treats. By CRAIG PAYNE Last spring I was fortunate to be invited to share a turkey hunt with Hayden Jensen, his dad Stewart Jensen and his grandfather Amo Jensen. Hayden had drawn a hard to get turkey tag and was excited to get the hunt started. The trio set up camp near a small creek, under a canopy of cottonwood trees nestled along the far edge of a beautiful green meadow. I absolutely love the color of springtime green grass. No other shade of green can compare to the color of green grass as it pokes it's sleepy head through the melting snow. Summertime grass pales in comparison to the lush green grass of early spring. As it turned out the same green grass that drew the Jensen's to this particular camp site also drew the turkey's to the same drainage. Although the turkey's had taken up residency higher on the mountain. Hayden's hunt was well under way by the time I was able to join them and they had several bands of turkey's located. The turkey's seemed to be very active just past first light but their calling subsided dramatically as the sun rose in the eastern horizon and we were unable to hear any more calling until just prior to sunset. It became apparent to all involved that this was going to be a tough hunt. For Hayden to be successful we would need to be set up well before daylight. As the first streaks of sunshine raced westward from their eastern beginnings the woods came alive with activity. From our mahogany covered vantage Courtesy Photo Stewart and Hayden Jensen with Heyden's harvested turkey. point turkey's could be heard in all directions. North, south, east and west. Tom's gobbled and hen's yelped their seductive reply. I did my best to sound like a love sick hen turkey in need of companionship. We had one would be suitor headed our way as we watched him weave in and out of the sagebrush hastily closing the gap between us and him. We hustled to get the decoy set up and our camouflage face masks in place, then we waited. And we waited. Then we called. And then we waited some more. Then we called again. And then the unexpected happened. We called in a cow elk. She came in fast and she came in close, leaving us all to wonder why the heck my very best turkey calling would entice a cow elk to come and check us out. I still do not know. But I do know by the time the elk encounter was over the woods were again quiet. Void of all turkey sounds. We headed to camp to regroup. We decided to get back to the mahogany point well before evening and just let things happen as they will. Our plan was to listen for torn turkey's gobbling and then react to them accord- ingly. But after quite a spell on stand the only sound in the woods at all was a hen that seemed to be lost. We listened to her persistent calling as she made her way up one side of the drainage and down the other side. After a quick strategy session we decided to follow her, keeping track of her by sound rather than sight as the vegetation was too dense to see any distance at all. Our thoughts were that when she located the flock we would be in an ideal location to lure a torn into shotgun range. We followed her at a distance for about a half mile before her calling subsided. At that point we set up and started calling ourselves. The area we were in was on a steep, rocky hillside covered with thick pinon and juniper trees, directly above a small creek. And again the unexpected happened. Instead of calling in a torn turkey, we called in three. They came in with out making a sound. 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