November 11, 2006

ELLEN TELLS ME SHE MISSES ME AND WANTS ME HOME BY THANKSGIVING. Nice to be wanted after being on the trail for so long. My dogs are in heaven and want each moment to be repeat again and again. They say that insanity is repeating an act time and time again trying to make it better. I can not make camping and dog working with such fine made guns and better so by definition I am sane but compulsive

That is my nature to achieve the heights one can go without loosing the perch and the drive to learn and be curious. The journey to the top is what it is all about. Why settle for less. After all this is America and the dream is achieving what you desire and the pursuit of happiness with humility. The best in women, children, dogs, intellectual honesty, best gun, theology, politics health, are all achieved through relationships. You have to like people and I really enjoy people .

On my way back to our place on the MADISON, i want to stop and visit my dear friend John Palmer truly a man who has a deep love affairs with dogs, English setters in particular. John has managed to keep things simple and his love for the outdoors is wonderful to be near. He is a gentlemen that actively participates in outdoormanship from trout fishing to pointers. John carries a SxS unloaded in the field and will not load his English double until his dogs are on a firm point. He will pass on a shot if there is eveen a remote chance the dogs may be in harms way. John is generous and always sems curious much like my hunting friend, a Mormon Bishop who leads a double life away from the city. John reads like a bookwarm, stands 6'9" and lives in rare aire ....is know as the Palm Tree. He is as gentle as a lab yet could hurl a hay bale over the wagon when needed.

The winds near Livington are voracious as usually . I pass Ben Willam place and wonder how many brittany's he kennels. Ben is new to the SxS's and with his protected fields I suspect he will enjoy shooting as 28 ga. He has a slide collection that deems worth of a donation upon his passing. He is a dire hard democrat I suspect a tick from his Northern Illinois days and high school teaching