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Think on this though...., those of us who have wives that put up with us and "do us a favor" by letting us go running around in the woods for days at a time..., get the whole house without us "underfoot". I wonder who is actually doing the favor?

L.D., you are a very observant man.

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Think on this though...., those of us who have wives that put up with us and "do us a favor" by letting us go running around in the woods for days at a time..., get the whole house without us "underfoot". I wonder who is actually doing the favor?

Sometime my wife get openly hostile during hunting season. She and her co-workers refer to it as the "hunting season widow" or something like that. I figure I do just about anything she wants during the rest of the year, shopping, movies, going out to dinner, vacation, etc. When the fall of the year comes around, I figure it's my turn. If she wants to come w/ me great. If she doesn't, that's her decision, but don't try to make me feel guilty because I want to go. I'd better stop rammbling. I'm having flash backs of hunting seasons past... Best regards. Rockerhound

My wife enjoyes the primitive camping and redezvous(as long as the lodge is a 12x15 with a queen mattress and a porta-potty) and goes whenever she can,her work sometimes interfears,but when she does go,my enjoyment level quadruples!(as does the work of setting up Taduse hall!ie:tajma hall as opposed to my one man camp! (Wife just told me to add the chandelier and wash basin's!)

When I was working,before I retired again,if it was hunting season,I'd be going off to work and the wife would be snapping caps and loading her 50 Hawkin heading out for the day.If it's summer and there is no lightening or a NOR EASTER blowing you better plan on fishing, canoeing and camping.Dont let anything change that plan or there is no living, you just try to hide and survive.Bugs Boys with blackened faces are no where near as hard to shake or make friends with if you do.
I figure after 39 years if she is still here she's a keeper.Only other woman to put up with me for any length of time was my mom.HA HA

First and foremost, check her teeth. You'd do it when acquiring a horse. Is a wife any less important? He, he, he....

I think I told this story before somewhere here. But, it is as good as it is true. A friend of mine set up his lodge at rendezvous then put a sign out front that read "Have lodge, need squaw". Before the day was over a gal came by, they made friends and shared blankets the same night. Now, 23 years later, they are still happily married.

I actually met my spouse online...just over ten years ago.

When I say that I get the same look as if I said I won her in a poker game. But, we didn't meet in a chat room. We did meet by being on three forums where we had common interests. And common interest is the glue that keeps people together.

Sparks

Don't know if this's been posted before; if so, chalk it up to my failing mental faculties(58 in a month or so!)
Ms Kat and I met at a SCAdian event about eight years ago. She sat on my lap and stuck her tongue in my ear, trying to get some kind of reaction out of me!
When she couldn't, she took it as a real challenge, and she's been tryin' ever since. Five years, beginnin' of July just past, and still goin'.

Ahhhhh, my wife, the brat, but she can't help it she says cause her father spoiled her rotten so she says blame him, thinks she's roughing it when she has to stay in a Marriott as oppose to a Hilton!!!
Doesn't understand hunting and all her friends and co-workers are liberal beings that see no good use for that activity and will argue with you until they're cross-eyed.
Except primitive muzzleloaders, they all start acting like a bunch of schoolgirls when they ask about how my firelock works. I get a big kick out of it especially when they see it go off, luv that rock lock……flintlocks……the Real Deal!!! (I apologize to Roundball)

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, they all start acting like a bunch of schoolgirls when they ask about how my firelock works.

Are you sure they're talkin' about your RIFLE?

My wife and I are opposites in lots of ways, but not when it comes to hunting, fishing, and the great outdoors. It was the similarities and not the differences that made the attraction. I met her in Hawaii where she owned a dive shop. She was the first woman I'd ever met that I was truly in awe of, for her accomplishments. We were engaged about 6 weeks after we started dating. That was 27 years ago.

We hunt together (I think she has shot more deer with a muzzleloader than I have), fish, canoe, camp - you name it. Our neighbor will never let us forget how she was taken back at the sight of my wife scraping and salting a deerhide in our driveway, with her long red fingernails.

Now that we are into reenacting she sometimes portrays a French colonial woman, but more often she is a fellow French Marine, right up there in the firing line with the rest of us.

I am married to my best friend.

By the way, we have brought up our son and daughter to hunt and fish as well. At six years old, my daughter would hold open the ribcage while I gutted the deer and carefully took out the heart and liver, which they all enjoy for dinner.

Yes Lostrifle I'm sure...unfortunately!!!!
Cause all of her friends are HOT!!!!!

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Some would say the women pick spouses, not the other way around.

Sparks

Sometimes men like to talk big.

I wonder how many of us are like Milton?

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Folks,

Marriage is like the rest of life, it 'aint perfect. My wife, Kwilkaru Nari Caava Kuchuvuuvu Mamachi, (translated: be smoldering between buffalo robes woman), doesn't get in to anything except comfort. In fact, I think the only reason she married me was because she knew no matter what, I could kill what threatened her offspring, kill what needed to be 'et, and make clothes, boots, shoes, saddles, and hardware out of what was left over.

Sure it would be nice to have some company on the trial, but it sure is nice goin' home.

Will

Yep, when my Father was alive, God bless his soul for he was the smartest man I ever had the pleasure to talk too, he would say, 'Where you been' I would say, 'Out chasing girls' and he would reply, 'None of them slowed down enough for you to catch em, huh.'
Only the Good Lord knows how much I miss him!!!

Let's see I hunt, I train dogs, I shoot guns and ride horses all the time. My wife does none of these things, and should get rid of me.

the only reason mine keeps me is she don't want to train another one

Lessee;
I cook; I wash dishes; I do laundry; I run errands; I mop floors and vacuum rugs.
AND, I don't talk back no more'n half the time.

She'd hafta PAY someone else ta do all that!

Lostrifle, sounds like you are a good wife..... ;-)