due to my illness (from which by the way I'm getting better every day) I started counting down to October 1st!
Only 128 days, or 3,080 hours, 184,849 minutes, till Opening Day for bow in SZ!!!
http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?msg=Bow+Hunting+Opening+Day+Southern+Zone+NY&month=10&day=1&year=2012&hour=&min=&sec=&p0=179