Everyone was supposed to be snoring – including the hound. We have all been there. I am positive you have found yourself lying in your bunk waiting for that slow moving sun to rise.

We all do it.

Tossing and turning, like kids on Christmas eve, excited and anticipating what the coming day will bring. I don’t think I have ever slept more than 2 hours on the night before deer season and it can get horribly boring while you are horizontal.

In anticipation of another sleepless opening night, I have brainstormed a small list with some things you could do to help pass the time. Feel free to comment with some of your own – keep them clean.

• Clean and oil your firearm beside the camp lantern
• count mice in the rafters
• throw darts at mice in rafters
• add wood to the stove
• cool down outside with rest of the gang because of too much wood in the stove
• walk out to the outhouse without a light
• test your new GPS because you walked past the outhouse
• throw a sock a the hound
• place a dog treat in a lower bunk and watch what happens with the, now awake, hound
• clean your friend’s firearm
• make bear noises
• eat peanuts in your bunk
• throw pieces of shell at everyone else who is ‘sleeping’.

What do you do?