Good luck Jeff and may God bless.

Jeff,
I'll give you a call in the next couple of days. Between deer and bird hunting with a little work in between I feel like I'm burning the candle at both ends lately.

Jeff,prayers and wishes are with you and your family,always. I have that scope thing comming up real soon.:crying: Enjoy the rest. Remember that you are eating in the most expensive restraunt in town.:rotf:

Private message on its way. Thanks. Jeff

Went thru what you're going thru about 17 years ago, except I had the traditional open surgery. All's good for me now. I'm sure it will be the same for you. and you will find that you will take a lot less time in front of the urinal than you used to.

So Jeff got an interim back home at Lake Okoboji IA from Mayo last weekend and got these, and had their birds blessed at St Hubertus Sunday at the local parrish church. Both of us prize our grandfather's guns.

Wild birds. Out here hen pheasants are not legal.

The service was actually on the 3rd of November- St Hubertus Day. I hunted for 7+ years in Germany and Luxembourg (and may have even poached in France and Belgium). St Hubertus Day was a very big deal. Our parish (St Alban's Episcopal) has a very large percentage of members who hunt (or hunted). So we started an annual event a number of years ago and it is very popular. It concludes with a blessing of the hunter, his/her hound (dog), gun, and whatever game was taken that day and in large part is based on a traditional German service in the Rhineland. We only lacked a horn to play the traditional signal for the fallen game bird. Perhaps next year.

saw this psot. I am from the area and have a family there also. Hope the birds come back over the next couple of years.

It is better this year than it has been in at least three years- but still not up to it's normal standards. The recent and continuing severe drought cannot be a help either. It is largely one-sies and two-sies when you get one and a long time and distance between birds. Still the fun remains the same and the challenge even greater.