IAhawks84
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Hey everyone, hope all is well.
I was at work today, driving from one job to another and thinking about deer hunting. I then thought about the gentleman in this story. Perhaps some of you have read it before. I had the privilege of doing some work for this guy last summer. To say his story is inspiring is a massive understatement.
When I first saw him, I could tell he was blind. He came to the room that I was working in, conversing as per usual with a customer. He then told me, "I am blind if you did not know", and I was thinking, yeah it's pretty obvious. Upon learning more about this guy I thought, wow, it's not that he didn't realize I knew he was blind, but he does not see it as a disability. It does not hold him back.
We started talking about hunting after a while. I was talking deer hunting, then he starts telling me how much he enjoys it as well. I'm growing a bit skeptical at this point, but when he was talking about actually shooting deer I thought, yeah this guy is full of shit. Sure enough he wasn't. He brought me downstairs and showed me a couple of deer he had mounted. One being the deer in this story, the other being a doe. He said he caught some flak for mounting a doe, I told him I thought it was awesome. He also had the newspaper article framed by the buck mount.
He told me that he'd really love to elk hunt. I have no doubt in my mind this guy will make it happen. I don't know Mr. Crawford real well or anything, as I have just worked in his home a couple of times. He really made an impression on me though. Talk about an inspiration. I just thought that some of you may enough reading his article as well while we're all battling/waiting out the covid.
I was at work today, driving from one job to another and thinking about deer hunting. I then thought about the gentleman in this story. Perhaps some of you have read it before. I had the privilege of doing some work for this guy last summer. To say his story is inspiring is a massive understatement.
When I first saw him, I could tell he was blind. He came to the room that I was working in, conversing as per usual with a customer. He then told me, "I am blind if you did not know", and I was thinking, yeah it's pretty obvious. Upon learning more about this guy I thought, wow, it's not that he didn't realize I knew he was blind, but he does not see it as a disability. It does not hold him back.
We started talking about hunting after a while. I was talking deer hunting, then he starts telling me how much he enjoys it as well. I'm growing a bit skeptical at this point, but when he was talking about actually shooting deer I thought, yeah this guy is full of shit. Sure enough he wasn't. He brought me downstairs and showed me a couple of deer he had mounted. One being the deer in this story, the other being a doe. He said he caught some flak for mounting a doe, I told him I thought it was awesome. He also had the newspaper article framed by the buck mount.
He told me that he'd really love to elk hunt. I have no doubt in my mind this guy will make it happen. I don't know Mr. Crawford real well or anything, as I have just worked in his home a couple of times. He really made an impression on me though. Talk about an inspiration. I just thought that some of you may enough reading his article as well while we're all battling/waiting out the covid.
