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the (closer) local park today to shoot. We had a second day of sunshine and pleasant temperatures (I also got a good two mile walk in today), so it made sense to take advantage of it. When Auntie suggested it, she asked if I'd mind her inviting along a fellow volunteer from the Dog Warden's building, a gentleman she's nicknamed "Zero Body Mass" because he's slender (in a fit way, not a sickly way). The hot rumor at the Dog Warden's is Auntie and ZBM are dating, a rumor Auntie denies a bit too emphatically. I told her I absolutely didn't mind and I thought ZBM was delightful. He's also a better shooter than either of us, though I did somewhat better today than usual, actually managing to hit the bullseye thrice despite shooting at a target further away.

What was weird...I brought nine arrows with me, and Auntie brought seven, including one she had to trim the fletching on. I loaned her one of my arrows so we each had eight to shoot. At one point, I buried an arrow in the ground (actually, at many points, I buried an arrow in the ground, either undershooting or overshooting and several times shooting just to the left of the target). Anyways, with this particular buried arrow, I couldn't find it immediately. After a minute or so, I spied some bright orange fletching on the ground...but there was no arrow attached to it when I picked it up. I spied what I thought was my arrow nearby, picked it up and kept shooting.

When I got home, I decided to clean off the arrows as almost all of them wound up in the mud at some point. As I was cleaning off one, I noticed it had black and white fletching (arrows have three small pieces of plastic, or sometimes feathers, called "fletching", at the non-pointy end, with one being a different color than the other two; the odd colored piece is supposed to be facing outward...or inward, depending on who you talk to). None of my arrows have black and white fletching; some have neon orange and neon yellow and some have neon green and white, and the ones I leave at home have black and gray fletching that I can't see well when the arrow flies into the ground. Additionally, the shaft of the arrow with black and white fletching is thicker than the shaft of my other arrows. I texted Auntie to see if I'd picked up one of her arrows by mistake...not only did she say no, she also said that even though she did indeed come home with seven arrows (she returned the borrowed one at the end of our shoot), she did not have any with trimmed fletching. I checked my arrows, even though we'd not been swapping arrows...nope, mine all had full fletching. I told Auntie maybe this park was Ohio's version of the Bermuda Triangle, with arrows appearing and disappearing at will.