[Kenneth Niles Bora]

In the driveway this morning at 0 dark hundred tossing goose decoys into the truck. I notice the neighbor also in the driveway and seeing as they don't hunt I am curious. "Where are you off to?", I ask. "We are going to get in line at Wal-Mart, what are you doing?". "I am going to lay on the ground in a freshly plowed corn field amongst a group of decoys with a muddy dog next to me on a crisp clear 26 degree morning and wait for the sun to rise." You are crazy" they exclaim as they drive off......... to shop :roll: .
Ken Bora

 

[Steve Amrein]

I think you may get a different poll result on the all shopping forum

 

[larrynogaj]

crazy?

We're all crazy in our own way. (from someone elses perspective of course). It's getting to be time to go out and freeze some hot water!

 

[Kenneth Niles Bora]

Re: crazy?

We're all crazy in our own way. (from someone elses perspective of course). It's getting to be time to go out and freeze some hot water!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: that was a great thread, went on for pages and pages :lol: :lol: :lol: and was packed with tec info :wink:

 

[Lady Duck Hunter]

Actually, if you look at the roots of it all you were both up getting ready to go "hunting" each in your own way. And we are all crazy in one way or the other.

 

[NateB]

In the words of Jimmy Buffet
"If weren't all crazy, we all gone insane"

So true.

 

[ducksoup]

What's crazier???? -- getting up before 5 a.m. to "line up" for Rolling Stones tickets and waiting in same line for up to 2 days just to maintain your place in front of the line ???? -- OR getting up before 5 a.m. to get to a puppy stake to run your 6 month black Lab in his first trial (OR getting up before 5 a.m. to go to field trial in a higher stake -- Derby, Qualifying, or any All Age stakes -- and then going out in the first series) ???? --all this after travelling up to 3 hours one way from home and then heading right back after trial -- if it was just a picnic trial would that be even more crazy ????

 

[Bob Gutermuth]

There is a very fine line between a hobby and insanity.

 

[ducksoup]

Bob,
I agree that there can be a very fine line between a hobby and insanity -- to any one who has gone to the"dogs" will usually find that their non-dog friends think that they have "lost" it (although hopefully such friends are too polite to say anything to the "dog"person directly, usually reserving such remarks to conversations held behind the "dog" person's back) -- personally I'd rather hang out with other "dog" people who by and large have replaced some of my previous "friends"

 

[Guest]

Next question should be.... who was better armed?? Some of the past Black Friday shopping sprees have been a test of ones survival savy.
I know i'd feel a lot safer out in the blind.

 

[Bob Gutermuth]

I got my first chessie to have a duckin dog. Sometime between when she got her MH and became QAA the hook got set. I started off with a handfull of bumpers, a whistle and a leash&choke chain. Now my closet is full of white coats & shirts on one side and camo on the other. My van has 4 custom creates in it a couple of bumper boys and tons of other equipment. I rarely take time off from training to hunt, and try to schedule everything around the f/ts and h/ts I want to run. I guess its a good thing I am retired, my old boss would go round the bend signing off on all the vacation and holidays I would be requesting to allow me to run the circuit. If retrieveritis is a disease, I don't want the cure.

 

[Peake]

"I am going to lay on the ground in a freshly plowed corn field amongst a group of decoys with a muddy dog next to me on a crisp clear 26 degree morning and wait for the sun to rise." You are crazy" they exclaim as they drive off......... to shop :roll: .
Ken Bora

Ken,
You are obviously crazy but articulate in your insanity! :wink:
Well Spoken Regards,
Peake
________
Vapolution

 

[ducksoup]

I'm with Bob G. -- if retrieveritis is a disease I don't want the cure either -- thank God I'm not alone in my "suffering" since it seems to be contagious -- might be "crazy" but I'm having lots of fun

 

[Sue Kiefer]

I love it.
I had to venure out towards the shopping mall because I had to ship a dog home this a.m.
I stopped at a Wal-Mart to get batteries for the radios,bleach,...
Then I saw............ :lol: This is no lie.....
I saw 2 women on the verge of an all out fight over some Elmo toy while their children sat in the carts???? :roll: :roll:
I have driven in the wee hours of the a.m. for a trial to go out in the first series of an all-age after they had a poison bird pheasant flyer land blind. She did a great job on the blind then couldn't come up with the darn hen pheasant
Sue

 

[MooseGooser]

This is me just before we set out to our Goose pit! It sits on the edge of a punkin patch! This is my "full Camo" for that blind!

NOW WHO'S CRAZY????











Gooser

 

[Latisha]

Gooser, did you buy that scarf to go with your sequin belt?

And because nobody else has pointed it out yet...
I was.
They were.

Latisha

 

[MooseGooser]

Gooser, did you buy that scarf to go with your sequin belt?

No Actually it came in a matched set with the flannel plaid shirt. Color contrasts a little, but I can live with it!

They call it Cranberry Blossom! :wink:

Gooser

 

[Steve Bean]

Ken, Man where are all of your friends???? I voted for you just because I want you to WIN!!!

Did you come back with your shopping bags full?

 

[Kenneth Niles Bora]

This is my "full Camo" for that blind!
NOW WHO'S CRAZY????
Gooser

Mrs. Gooser? :lol:

 

[Kenneth Niles Bora]

Ken, Man where are all of your friends???? I voted for you just because I want you to WIN!!!
Did you come back with your shopping bags full?

nope, blue bird gooseless day but a very cool sunrise