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Shawn, Earnest Goes to Camp!, what a classic. I must have watched it a hundred times as a kid , but I don’t remember the badger family part.
Jimjimmysticks, this is really going on. And btw, your name congers up a similar funny feeling in me. :embarassed: Embarrass face back at ya.
Badger, well I hope you are happy! The badger won. I have seen that video of the guys catching a badger with a blanket and dog crate, also in idaho. Watching that will give you an idea of what it was like, except I had a knife instead of a blanket, and of course the badger in that video is much smaller, and has the look of an old grey mare to me.
John, your uncle sounds like a real character, not surprising given his relations. I too tried snaring badgers when I was a kid. My dad would take us “camping” (mule deer scouting) in the Trout Creek mts, of SE Oregon. I was always after those badgers.
And thanks for the nickname. My wife thought that was really funny.
Wolverine!?! No way! You guys are nuts! Black bear is next. Spring season just opened and I am heading out this weekend. One of Chet Stevenson's hunting partners actually took a black bear with a hunting knife. Great story.
Cracker, I did not get to keep my job. At first things seemed cool. The operations manager in our Portland office was understanding enough. But while all seemed cool, the thing was snow-balling up the corporate memo ladder on both the Ridgeline Energy and the Tetra Tech sides. By day three, Ridgeline was calling from France demanding my head. Tetra Tech offered it up, of course. My boss was doing all he could to keep me, but the call was coming from way up.
Adam, thanks, losing my job was not ideal, but it could not have come at a better time. I had just got my wife on with the company earlier that week, just as a temp doing data entry. She is still there and is getting brought on as a permanent, as a wetland survey coordinator. She had been a stay at home mom for 3 years, while I worked. We essentially, traded roles. I have been a full-time stay at home dad up until a month ago we decided to get the kids in day care three days a week, and see if I can generate some income with my archery interests.
It took me so long to write the thing because writing these stories doesn’t pay for daycare! Or maybe it could? Any publishers out there? I got lots more of these tales.
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Your host, Carson Mclean Brown
