Lifestyle, Time, Money, the Southern, and Parker shotguns

[GH-16]

The southern has always been on my want list of things to do, but it seems there is always some sort of priority conflict with making it happen.

Back when I was working. I only had a few weeks of vacation time and had to make the decisions between taking a week to travel to Sanford or spend that money & time to have a week with my dogs & buddies chasing upland birds in the Dakotas or Montana. Then for years I was in group who shared a block of tables at the spring Tulsa show & it was to close in schedule to the spring southern that attending it fell down the priority list between the two passions.

The trade-off was, I still walked & talked the Parker life and have no regrets about the decisions I made.

Now that I'm retired, there is always something that prevents me from dedicating the time & money to justify making the trip from Denver to the east coast due to some family issues with taking care of my 95yr old mother.

Who knows--Maybe someday you'll see my ugly mug in Sanford. I know I'd sure like to shake some hands and put some faces to names in this great group of Parker people!