Parisian Boys Bone

Nice bone on a fat boy...................

Want some truth? Here's some truth..........

25 people were shot & 3 were killed yesterday in Chicago over a 2 hour span during “Barack Obama Day.” So where’s the liberal outrage? Where’s the mainstream media coverage? Where are the NFL players taking a knee? Where are the actors from Hollywood? Oh yeah, they don’t care.

MY GREATEST DEER ...............

There aren't any do-overs in parenting.   My greatest work has been within the walls of my home.   I was blessed to be given the task of getting two sons into the adult world and along the way I tried my best to expose them to many of the sights and sounds of the natural world that I had the opportunity to experience with my own Dad growing up.   I have been hunting deer for over 50 years.  Along the way I have eaten a tremendous amount of venison.  Some years I shot alot of deer, some years I shot a few and some years I didn't shoot a single animal.   I have always had fun hunting.   Back in the early 90's I was privileged to hunt a private farm in Turner County, Georgia.    As a guest, I didn't care to impose on the resident landowner hunters and always tried to go out of my way to hunt areas on the farm where my hunting on foot wouldn't bother anyone.   I just would go for a walk.    Deer in south Georgia are as nocturnal as they come and hunting on foot, spot n stalk in the woods, with two sons tagging along in my footsteps was a whole new experience.   I am not certain how much luck there was that weekend, or good shooting, or just plain great stalking by the 3 Parisian boys but I remember we got one and the picture tells the story.  That was many years and many deer ago.   For me and for them.   It was a memorable hunt and one they will probably forget over time.  For me, it was one of the greatest experiences in the woods a Dad could ever have.     

Play through pain.........

When you break a finger and you want to be at practice you do what you have to do.   #AYFA    #AYFATrainingGround 

Unbelievable...........

To this day in my life, the heaviest mule deer I ever laid my hands on.    I can't tell you what we thought this deer would have weighed on the hoof.   One, you would have called us crazy and two you wouldn't have believed us.

It was crazy and it was unbelievable.   The coyotes and magpies done a job on him before we got back up there the next morning on horseback even after leaving some clothing draped on him.

Wolf Mountains, Crow Indian Reservation.  1983

Never stop dreaming.........

At this tender age i bet he never dreamed he would own a 2 mile stretch of this magnificent river.............

TANSTAAFL

Let's take a deep breath. Slow down. Look around. Now, look back.

Who is the culprit here? Who is to wear the crown of blame for our financial mess?

Ready?

He may be around the corner from your home. She may be on the PTA. They may sit next to you in church. You saw them at your kids soccer party.

That's who they are.

The 2008 crisis originated in the greed and failure to save by homeowners, their use of real estate borrowing for consumptive lifestyles. Their failure to save, their spendthrift ways.