When you get a chance, could you clear out a PM?

Hi Sam, hope you're well. Hi Yote, figured you'd be here as well so Ide get a 2fer.

Hello, Donner. I'm doing better than I deserve. Got 50 or so traps set with a half dozen kids today. Drinking good beer and got a good woman cooking fresh venison. It can't get much better.

I hope all is well with you and yours.

50 traps packing a six pack of kids is pretty impressive. What are you trapping and who did you kidnap 2 more kids from?

Oh and hi Donner

Always the bridesmaid never the bride!

We're doing well, busy as I've ever been, booked with work through mid December so it won't slow down anytime soon.

Tried to convince the wife ide rent a place up north to go trapping marten, she didn't seem convinced it would be a vacation.

Coons, skunks, and canines. Mostly critters that are being problematic.

I had a friend pass away this spring, he had a boy that has a strong interest in trapping, so I'm trying to help him out. His cousin wanted to come with. And their grandpa, who is a heck of a good man, has permission to access that chunk of ground.

It was a looooooong day! Basically doing a demo at every set. But it surely was fun! I'm looking forward to checking in the morning.

Chasing marten is a good time.

Leave your wife at the cabin so she can relax. Bring your kids out and set traps. Throw out some weasel and squirrel boxes. It'll be a hoot.

Tell her she has no idea how good she has it as she will only have to skin and board 2 marten, whereas a lot of the wimmen folk in Canada and Alaska have to put up dozens, and that she should learn to be more grateful.......

Looking forward to seeing some catch pics! We will be setting this coming weekend, just a couple traps for the local possums and skunks

That's great Sam. I'm sure your buddy's son could really use that father figure in his life now. He'll never forget you taking him out trapping. How old is he?

I'm going to try and convince her again, with logic like that she's sure to come around. I'll wait til after the monthly moodiness subsides... can't deal with another concussion

He's 12. He's a great kid. He does everything I tell him, and wants to learn.

Lol, Donner!

That monthly thing can get in the way sometimes.

Did you finally switch from Grain Belt?

Or you could play it the other way.... tell her that she's absolutely right, and that that wouldn't be much of a vacation, as with just 2 marten to put up she would surely get bored. So instead, you've decided to take her to AK for a month, where she will never run out of marten to skin and frost scrape... nor have time to think about how her girlfriends' vacations in the Caribbean are going..... as an added incentive, you can tell her if a certain percentage of her marten grade top lot, you'll even invest in a washing machine so she won't have to keep washing your jeans on that washboard in the bathtub once you get home.......

You can kiss the very middle of my large hind end.

how much would you charge me to come up here and train her in? Give her lessons on fur handling and obedience.

Gross! No thank you. I saw where you walked this morning............