Sharing a memory from 19 years ago, on May 5, 2007, when I met Rex Dean Howell and his family at their deer camp, the famous Christmas Place Plantation Hunting Club, on the edge of the MS Delta near Eden, MS. The property had 11 Indian Mounds, and our first picture together was taken in front of one. One of the happiest days of my life.
We met by chance when he came to a hunting forum I had posted on, where I had included a picture of my first 8-point buck and left a link. He came to my website before I turned it into this blog and signed my guestbook on January 29, 2007. I always thank everyone who signs, and that is how we met. He later told me to keep blogging about deer hunting because not too many women deer hunt. He had a hunting blog called Deer Camp Blog, and the rest is history. At the time, we had the same template and green-colored blog. It was meant to be.
My former husband, Bob Phillips, and I were invited to the deer camp, where we met his dad, Hershel, and his brothers, Paul and Trent. We were treated like royalty when we arrived and toured most of the camp, which covered close to 2,000 acres and included a 40-acre pond.
Until 2019, I was able to deer hunt on the property, but Rex got very sick with cancer and died on January 31, 2021. He called me on December 23, 2020, and told me he was very sick and we could not hunt. On Christmas Eve, he went into the hospital and was operated on early Christmas Day.
A wonderful memory in my life, from 12 years of deer-hunting with a friend, I will never forget as long as I live. May he rest in peace. Amen
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