The dreaded Monguu has had me down and out the past few days.  Winemaker and I have been sick for FAR TOO LONG!  I was able to get into the doc and he prescribed some stuff that really knocked it good!  It also knocked me good and pretty soon normality will be back…right now I feel like 45%.  Winemaker seems to be clicking in about 60%.  It’s just a matter of time.  At least the chills and feel bads are taking less of our total daily hours, so that is a BIG plus!

OK, so much for that.

The year is a new one and lots being talked about in our future.  Of course when you look ahead, a lot of the yearly plans are already in place…the usual stuff…Trapping, Farm Work, Annual trip to Wendover, Cache Rendezvous, Hay, WCFT Rendezvous, Muzz Deer Hunt….Those are pretty much given activities.

Mixed in with those activities are hopes of helping with some volunteer programs like the Youth Turkey Hunt, Sponsored in part by the United Wildlife Cooperative and R and K Hunting Company.  Since being allowed to participate in that event I have met some wonderful people and witnessed some amazing turkey hunting.  The kids who have been allowed to hunt at this event have all been such a delight to get to know.  All of them are just plain “down home” and all had the same goal in mind…shoot a big old tom turkey.  Not all of them got the chance, but those that did sure had some great stories to tell.

Maybe this year will be another one where we get to spend some time in the Crawford Mountains.  That is always a fun time!

For sure, and I don’t know when yet, but there will be at least one meeting of the Utah Wildlife Board that I will be attending and hoping my idea of additional Muzzleload Antelope hunting will be accepted and put into the Hunting Guide book for 2015.  Shooting a buck antelope with my muzz rifle is one of my last two hunting items on my bucket list!

Scatter into this mix of  “stuff” will be the Super Bowl and World Series playoff boards!  Always fun to hope to cash in on that.  AND the lottery…could we be so lucky as to hit some of that!!!!

So, there you have it and let’s hope and pray we don’t have any more deaths in any of our families.  God needs to give us a break after last year.

Bears Butt

January 5, 2014