I don’t know how to add a company to this page so that they might be able to boost their sales, but one has come to mind that I think every hunter needs to be aware of.  Grouse Wing Camo is the name of the company.  It’s a small operation right now, but they have the right idea for hunting camo in my opinion.

I love their sales statement as well:  “Hide like prey, hunt like a predator”

Check them out at GrouseWingCamo.com!

Bears Butt

Jan. 2012

I just finished reading a very good but short article about teaching our youngsters Geography.  A very good point was made in that article.  Our young people are being forced to live “away from” the very place that they are studying.  Even though they are “there”, we have enclosed them in houses, buses, cars, vans and buildings, so they don’t notice what is out “there”.  They don’t get to experience it, unless their parents take the time to go with them and try to teach them about the environment they live in.  One of the suggestions in the article was to have the student write down every thing they could about the environment outside their home.

The idea is to force the student to look, go, see outside and then write what they observe.  The hope is that the student will get interested in the “outside” space and eventually want to protect it and keep it like it is.  I suppose that is a good place to start.  But will our teachers pick up on that?  Probably not, so if you are a parent reading this you might want to help things out by asking your youngster to do this on their own and you become the teacher.

When you think about the beginning of our country, the good old U.S. of A.  A bunch of folks landed on the rock and proceeded to chop down trees and make themselves homes etc.  The beginning of the destruction of our environment.  But it had to be done, or they would not have been sheltered and safe from the very elements of the environment.

Kind of a catch 22.  Save the environment.  But have a home.  Save the environment.  But heat your home.  Save the environment.  But grow your crops.  Save the environment.  But have something to eat.  And it goes on and on.  You get the point.

Anyway, Geography, is more than just what is around us physically, like the mountains, valleys, streams and lakes.  It’s the air we breath, water we drink, soil we plant in….even how the people live in different climes and relate under different religions.  Geography is a wonderful thing to study, but it seems the kids now days don’t know anything about it.  Why?  I think the guy who wrote the article I read is spot on with his statement about keeping the kids “closed in”.  We have become so protective of our kids, they can’t even fall off a bike without us making sure they don’t get a scrape on the knee.  Heck!  Asphalt is part of our geography isn’t it?  Let them experience it!

Bears Butt

Jan. 2012

I encountered a casual encounter…hmmmm….does that make sense?  Let me start again.  I won’t delete that, because it has me thinking.

Reading the paper this morning, I read something that made me think how casually statements are made and we read them and after reading them over and over they become a part of our everyday lives and we don’t think about what it is, we just assume that it is normal and a part of just “what it is”.

Now I just read what I just wrote and it all sounds jumbly and makes no sense.

Let me try and explain all of this.

In the beginning God made seasons, right?  Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter.  We, who are lucky enough to live in such places that experience each of these seasons know exactly what I am talking about.  For those of you who only seem to have one season, say Summer, all year round are missing out on the cold of Winter and the transitions from Summer to Fall and Winter to Spring.  Both wonderful times to be alive.  Not to get too far off my subject, but all seasons are wonderful times to be alive.

Ok, so here it is.  Besides the four seasons we all have come to love (or hate), we have another which has been snuck in under our raidar….”Cold Season”!  As I understand it, it is a season when we can expect to get the flu or some sort of sniffling, coughing, aching feeling.  We have come to expect the Cold Season, which is also referred to as the “Flu Season”.  I’m OK with that.

Well, in today’s Ogden Standard Examiner there is a very long article about a “Tree for All Seasons”, By Becky Wright, and very well written I might add.  Here is a picture of the headlines.

In a nutshell, the article talks about setting up a tree and leaving it all year round.  You would decorate it for every season that happens throughout the year.  It does not mention the four original seasons however, I guess those have been forgotten.  It seems she decided not to take down the tree from the Christmas season and so, she decorated it for Martin Luther King day, Fathers day etc. etc.

This is a good idea, but what a nightmare when it comes to dusting it off during the weekly cleaning of the house.  I have a tough time dusting my “dead heads” once a year, let alone all the things hanging on a tree.  And what about the tree itself?  For sure, if the house was to be sold the tree would have to go with it.  Or in the case of folks who rent, the tree would have to stay as well.  Besides, the new owners or renters would love to have the tree standing in the corner all ready for them to customize according to their “seasons”.

Well, get ready for this next season:

For you entrepreneurial types, you should start cranking out ornaments that look like “1040 forms” or “H&R Block” logos!  If this tree thing takes off, like it might, you could be set for the rest of your life!  Because, no matter what seasons get forgotten over the years (like summer, fall, winter and spring seem to have been) we will NEVER see TAX SEASON ever get forgotten.  We have a lot of people out there to make sure of that!

Bears Butt

First writing of 2012!  Happy New Year Everyone!

Jan 1, 2012

When one finds himself looking for some bit of useful information on the world wide web and then suddenly realize they have just spend the last 20 or so minutes looking at some of the dumbest definitions in the world, one has to wonder if perhaps they have way too much time on their hands.

Case in point.  I was wondering if there is some funny Redneck sort of things that are related to the Super Bowl.  After all the 46th annual enactment of the event is coming on Feb. 5 2012.  I love it because I have a number on a board that just might give me my money back, or better yet, make me a buck or two.  And don’t forget the commercials.  It seems the big companies really put their best people to work on the selling points of their stuff and they hold off debuting those until the Super Bowl.  If they can get you to talk about their commercials than people will remember their name when it comes to buying.  I digress.

And so, there I was looking for Redneck Super Bowl stuff and suddenly realized I was looking at the “Urban Dictionary”, a dictionary that seems to cover just about any word anyone has ever said, used, thought up or whatever.  And then I came upon “Super Redneck”…..there is no definition for it!  WTH? (what the heck)!  We need a definition and soon!

Bears Butt

Last day of 2011

Wishing all who visit this site a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  I also hope that if you are one of the millions playing the lottery, that you actually do WIN it this year 2012!!!!

I resolve to wait until the 2012 muzzleload deer season to go hunting mule deer with a rifle…Sept. 26th….only 270 days to go!

Happy New Year everyone!

Bears Butt

The last day of 2011!

I was asked once, “Why do you talk about horses and call them ‘goddammits'”?

Well, it’s a pretty simple answer.  First off you have to understand horses.  They are big animals that are powered by a walnut size brain.  All that muscle and mass has to be controlled and that little brain has an overwhelming job to try and contain all of that.  Not an easy task by any means.

Secondly, a horse does what a horse does best, goes pretty much where it wants to.  You build a five or six wire fence around the area you wish the horse to stay in.  You feed it.  You water it.  You do everything possible to make it a happy horse and sometimes it will even let you ride it without throwing you off.

And so, you are reasonably sure the horse is happy where it is and you leave it to go and do something else.  You have fed and watered it.  The hay you gave it is the best around and when you leave it, the horse is nose deep into the pile of hay.  Munching happily away.

The next time you come to take care of the horse it is gone!  Not where you left it.  Or not anywhere near where it should be.  The first thing that comes to your mind is “goddammit”, where is that horse?  And so, why not just call them what you first think about?  goddammit!

Bears Butt

Dec. 2011

JUST A PLAIN OLD MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!  Boring huh?  Well, get out and make something of the last week of 2011 that is all I can say right now.  Around here you can take the kids ice fishing just about anywhere in the Northern end of the state.  Down South, the lakes are not frozen but offer up some of the best fishing of the year!  Back to the North, Bear Lake has the Bonneville Whitefish actively biting and with that come the Mackinaw and Cutthroat Trout that come in to eat the whitefish spawn.  Next month the Cisco Disco happens and you can catch a bunch of the Cisco!

Get out and enjoy!

Bears Butt

Dec. 2011

It’s hard to believe tomorrow is Christmas Eve.  Only 8 more days of 2011, so if you had planned on doing something this year and haven’t yet done it…well…time is running out!

Have a very Merry Christmas and The Best of the New Year.  2012 is going to be a great one!  Mark my words!

Bears Butt

Dec. 2011

For the men reading this post, please visit this site and try to stay out of the dog house with your woman this Christmas Season.