Outdoors in RI: Lost my co-pilot – Jeff Gross
by Jeff Gross, contributing writer Sunday night December 11 Rhode Island received 3″ of Christmas snow. One week prior I lost my hunting companion, best friend, and the best damn co -pilot ever. Taking advantage of the new fallen snow, I decided to go afield and clear my head of the sadness that has a grip on me. Maybe even see some pheasant prints in said snow. As usual, just like when I normally would be out Pheasant hunting with Jada, I had Arcadia Management to myself. 2 hours of trudging showed no Pheasant tracks and only worsened the pain of Jada’s absence. At home it is quiet – too quiet. In Arcadia today it was deafeningly quiet. No sounds at all. No tweety birds, no Animals , no other sounds of life. As the sun started to set, I headed for my truck. At the Midway crossroads a trail to the southwest was chosen rather than the gravel road. Down the trail I realized it was the very trail Jada and I attempted to find a rooster a second ti...