The Carter Center announced on Monday afternoon that former President Jimmy Carter is recovering from surgery after breaking his hip before a turkey hunting trip.
According to the Center, Carter fell at his home in Plains, Georgia as he was leaving for his hunting expedition.
Although the surgery was “successful,” the ex-president apparently had one major worry: “President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit,” the statement reads. “He hopes the State of Georgia will allow him to rollover the unused limit to next year.”
Statement from The Carter Center on President Carter's Health pic.twitter.com/9vhamJ9Vgk
— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) May 13, 2019
Be careful President Carter, you and Rosalynn still have to beat out George and Barbara Bush for longest marriage of a former president, and that is only a few months away.
Plus you are yourself too much of a treasure to lose so easily.
I wish Carter was doing more turkey hunting, there are plenty of turkeys in the Republican party.
Fish in a barrel. Wild Turkeys, I am told, are very challenging to hunt.
A friend of mine would concur. They are extremely smart and, yes, they can fly for short distances.
He told me one of the best signs when sitting in a deer blind is to see wild turkeys. He said turkeys are so attuned to danger that deer will follow them as a means of protection, a two-legged first alert system, if you will. Bambi’s thinking is, if it’s safe enough for turkeys it’s safe enough for me.
I suppose it is … except when there is a guy with a deer rifle sitting in a deer blind, of course.
Carter wrote a book in the '90s titled “An Outdoor Journal” about his hunting and fly-fishing experiences that can hold its own as a very creditable addition to the genre. That’s saying something because there are some dandy writers who’ve focused on this. He’s really quite a guy.