It only happens a couple of times during a trapping season when the trapper has to for-go a good morning to sleep in and get up and get his butt going.  Today is one of those days.

Bull Run requires an early visit in order to help keep the rutting tracks of the atv from ruining a good stand of wheat, even though I run my machine on the extreme edge of the field.  Traveling on frozen ground makes the most sense.  But Bull Run is not everything out there.  I must pick up the traps on the upper end of Big Spring and move them out to the ice line.  Today is the day for doing that.

It is 5:30 a.m. as I am typing this and I need to be out of here no later than 7 if my goals are going to be met, and then everything else needs to fall into place, most of which are way out of my control.  I know that some of you reading this are thinking “5:30…heck that’s nothing…I’m on the freeway heading for work every day before that…you slacker…get going”!  I know, because my work day always had me on the road before 5 a.m. and I did that for 27 years…so back off buck-0…I’m retired now and need my beauty sleep…a 5 a.m. alarm is very early for me now.

Now isn’t that a shot of someone who needs beauty sleep?

Speaking of which, Sherry gave me the word last night…trim the beard and get a hair cut…get ready for me Wyatt’s BS…I’ll be there no later than Saturday!

So, all side notes aside, I have a lot of work ahead of me today.  Work I said…It’s more like play but it isn’t easy.  Wish me luck!

Bears Butt

March 6, 2013