Repentance

[middleshot]

I've been called to repentance. Callshot and 2dogs have asked where I've been and why I've not posted in a while. I'll blame it on sixshot, it really is all his fault, all my free time is used eating all the really yummy stuff him and Ruthann are always bringing over. So here is a post which I hope will last for another great spell, before being called to repentance again.

I"ve been spending my time with the kids. We just got back from visiting my brother in Mesquite NV. 13 great days in the desert with temps as high as 90. We left Soda Springs with 2 feet of snow between my house and Dick's with the temp at 22 degrees and snowing so it was heaven for us to get away. We shot .22's, shot guns, and muzzleloaders. Spent a fortune on Tannerite and gas for the 4 wheelers and motorcylcles. Spent 3 days swimming in a pool which the locals thought it was too cold. The hardest thing about the Mesquite or Vegas is when you turn on the tap water it never gets cold. The tap water this morning in Soda is colder than ice water, it amazes me why its not frozen solid when it comes out. I love rinsing with this water after brushing my teeth, I can feel every one of those cavaties.

Since we've been back we've been chasing Turkeys. Friday my oldest passed up 16 jakes wanting a long beard. Hunting Turkeys out here is a little different than in the midwest or back east. The vegetation is usually big sage brush or thick timber stands of Doug-Fir. I don't know if its any easier or harder than back east its just different which sometimes involves long miles up the side of a steep mountin and snowshoes. Saterday we spent 14 hours hunting, hiked about 7 miles and climbed about 1500 feet in elevation. Just to watch 4 turkeys fly over the top of us and land about 3 miles from where we stood. If I'd know the the future I'd help him pull the trigger Friday on a jake, because Sunday my legs felt like jello.

Since I don't have the internet at home or television I usually tinker, reload, sew some leather, wood work, read a book, or recenlty work a horn.
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Until next time.
Middleshot

 

[T.A. WORKMAN]

Like that Howler!!!!!Great Idea.

 

[callshot]

Glad to hear from you again. At least you had some good times with your children. Spring is just around the corner. It ALWAYS is just around the corner here. 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad skiing. Steve

 

[americal]

Like that Howler!!!!!Great Idea.

I would like one of those myself--If you make anymore put my name on the list WITH PRICE--Like the carving of the horn :!: :!: I am serious REMEMBER Americal :lol:

 

[contender]

Ok, your repentance is accepted,,, for a while.
Don't be such a stranger!
It does sound as if you are enjoying yourself (as you should) with the family. And, even if the turkeys eluded you once,, keep at it! Have you nailed any 'yotes lately?

 

[sixshot]

Middleshot (Bryce) always has a lot of projects going on, either its turkey calls, coyote calls, powder horns, leather work, repairing my windshield or helping eat a loaf of sourdough bread or keeping track of 3 boys & one little girl...he's a busy guy.
I've begged him to grow a beard & be like Callshot but he said one ugly guy to a neighborhood is enough for him, I had to agree!
He loves to hunt turkeys & even with a bum ankle he can really cover the miles chasing them.
We're kind of alike, he likes to make something & use it, I like to make something & eat it! Couldn't ask for better neighbors & because he's between me & Cantshoot, it gives me a little "buffer" zone.
The other night about 10 pm I thought I heard a noise outside, I stepped out the back door & it was Bryce yelping on that coyote call of his, looking through the back yard I swore I could see a coyote perched on an old fence post, I grabbed the binoc's for a better look , I though it was maybe the ugliest coyote I'd ever seen, bushy face, scraggley hair, as I dialed in the Swaroviski's a little better I could see it was Callshot (Cantshoot), he had one leg propped up against a fire hydrant with his head throwed back & he was baying at the moon, Bryce has a way of making Callshot sing, even when he can't!
So Fermin, Jeff, & everyone else, I think Bryce will repent & visit a little more often, just remember, he is one busy guy, he never stops & on that rare occasion when he does....he immediately falls asleep! True story!

Dick

 

[Jeff Hoover]

Dang Steve, with sixshot and middleshot hitting the desert, and leaving you to bear the brunt of the Idaho winter, maybe we aught to start calling you "thawshot", at least till you warm up some :lol: .

 

[callshot]

Don't worry. They are ALL just jealous. I have had a lot better men than them try to get on my case. They just call me a friend to humor me, and I just help them to humor them. :wink: Why, just this morning I looked in the mirror and said "Good morning beautiful" and I thought that I heard both of them say good morning back. :roll: The truth hurts. Steve

 

[don44]

I feel like I'm doin' fine every morning.... Till I look in the mirror!