I've said it before on here and I'll say it again: I'm a lucky man. Aaron21, a friend of mine and a member of these forums would say that I'm "blessed". My six kids are all grown. Three are in the military: Two in the Air Force and one in the Navy. None of them are going to be here for Thanksgiving and my wife knows that I still have an either sex Missouri bow tag steaming in my wallet. She decided that we should both go and take Elly May, my trained blood trailing beagle. She was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday evening, take it with us and warm it up in the camper while I was hunting. During the day she planned to walk some of the trails with Elly May. Well, the temperature forecast has dropped to where she doesn't think it would be a good idea to go. Low's in the teens and around 20 degrees. She doesn't mind going, but she doesn't want to (and I don't want her to be) stuck in the camper because it's too cold for her to get out. I said that I should stay home, but she wants me to go ahead and go, and it's not because she wants to get rid of me. She knows that I love hunting and wants me to go and do what I love to do. I asked her why she was willing to let me go on a holiday like this. Her answer was a simple, straight-forward one. She said "Because I love you and I want you do do what makes you happy." Honestly, I haven't decided what to do, but I know that if I go I go with her blessing. I tend to agree with Aaron21. I'm blessed.
You take good care of that lady..............there aren't many around like her. I know............I am married to one too! Your friend is right............we are blessed.
Oh believe me, I do. Flip the calendar around to the spring and summer and I bass fish once in a while, but most of my time is spent taking care of horses; grooming, feeding, hauling and storing winter hay, building and maintaining fences and various other horse related chores. I've even learned to trim their hooves. Oh, and let's not forget riding. Lots and lots of horseback riding. Horses are what my wife loves and I put a good half year into them. Here's a secret, though: I don't really like horses but she does, and I know what side my bread is buttered on. My horse cost me a good two months of hunting last season. I got thrown... well, that's not really accurate. I got launched 9 feet into the air, came down on my side, broke two ribs and severely bruised all the others on my right side. That hurts a lot more when you're 50. That happened in November. I no longer ride when it's deer season or getting close to deer season and my wife totally understands.
WOW! You are a lucky man. My wife is seriously anti-hunting. She tolerates my new passion, but makes it clear that she doesn't like it. After my first harvest earlier this year, I couldn't bring the deer home to hang and can't keep the meat in my own freezer. I grew up in CA and we moved to IL to be near her family. I tell her, "you brought me here, what did you think was gonna happen?" I have always loved the outdoors and hunting is what gets me outside here. She has jokingly referred to me as a murderer. The funny thing is that my 7 yo little girl is loving everything about the woods and hunting so far. I took her squirrel hunting with me this fall and she loved it. She was also fascinated by the deer head I brought home (buried it out of site for a european mount). I took her to the local bow shop and they let her shoot a bow for the first time and she's hooked. I'm looking at getting her something for x-mas. In any event, count your lucky stars and give that wife of yours a squeeze!
You are blessed. Gosh, with an answer like that I would almost feel bad for going. Good luck if you decide to go.
You know, when I first met my wife she was a member of PETA and she had a sticker on the back glass of her car that said "Official Card Carrying Tree-hugger". I think that she believed that all hunters were like "trophy hunters". You know, like the ones you see on TV hunting cape buffalo, elephants, zebra, lions and giraffes. Kill the animal, take the trophy home and who-knows-what happens to the carcass. Now she helps me blood trail, field dress and process the deer I kill. This trip to Missouri I'll be alone and as many who know me on here already know, I'm colorblind and can't follow a blood trail to save my life. It's four hours from here to where I'll be hunting. She also said that if I hit one and can't find it, call her and she'll drive up and bring Elly May to help me find it. I told her that it would take her four hours to get there. Know what her reply was? She said, "Well, it's going to be cold so the deer will still be good when we find it." She wasn't worried about the drive time or the inconvenience. She was worried about losing the venison. Does it get any better than this?
I know what you mean, but you have to know Beth to appreciate her. If I stayed home she would know that I stayed for her and she would appreciate it, but she's intelligent enough to know that regardless of how happy I am at home this weekend, I would really want to be out there, especially during the rut. She knows that this is the time of year where I have a chance to make my hunting dreams come true, therefore she genuinely wants me to be out there.
Nice...my wife is the same way. Not many around...my best friend and hunting buddy. Well, his wife isn't much on him hunting at all. Poor Guy!
Well i guess there's hope for her yet! I think that she might come around slooooowly. We'll see what happens with the seasons to come. "fingers crossed"
Great write up Chief!! My hats off to your wife. Great woman. Good luck hunting!! Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk
That's awesome. I'm pretty lucky too. My husband not only tolerates, but is an enabler on much of my hunting. I 'left' him on Nov 8th to wander back and forth in IL and impose on my friends whilst deer hunting. Some of that included staying in a travel trailer with another man. Tomorrow I head back home. I miss him a lot. ...and when I get home, there's antelope hunting and then coyote and bobcat trapping.
That is awesome! Sounds like you have a great wife. Mine happens to love the outdoors and loves to bow hunt with me. I know the feeling of being blessed, I definitely feel like I as well. On a side note, what part of Missouri do you hunt in? I'm in southeast Missouri and curious how far you are from here.
I'm hunting in south-east Missouri too. Just outside Van Buren in Carter county. Are you familiar with that area?
My dad goes on a big squirrel hunt over by van buren every year. I've been there to current river to float, but I'm not real familiar with the area. I know some guys that hunt over there though. I'm guessing its mark twain nf?
