Yesterday was opening day for ducks, geese, snipe, and cranes here in ND. Nothing like the alarm going off at 4:30 am. Drag yourself out of bed, make a big pot of coffee. Load up the decoys, waders etc and head out to the hills. It was a perfect day. Partly to mostly cloudy and cool (temps in the 30's early, 50's later). Plenty of ducks, and I managed to get a limit (not going to mention how many shells it took me to do it). Even got the bonus giant Canada goose. The dog performed like a pro. She is a pointer and really prefers to hunt pheasants, but decided to humor me and find and retreive ducks for me. She even retreived a goose for another guy that I was with whose own dog, a golden retreiver, would not. Made me feel proud. Finished off the day with a Dominican Cohiba that I had been saving for 6 months. Mild, but very flavourful. Perfect wrapper and construction. Draw was good and it burned as evenly as any cigar that I have ever smoked. All in all a great day.