Non-Typical Solutions

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ I've sent a few messges, chances are nobody will read them though. I heard about this website Gaines, glad you posted it....kind of scarey putting an address on there though......they gonna come hunt me down after the comments I made.....' That millions billions trillions thing is worth sending around to everybody you know, puts things in perspective and just how deep the hole is we are getting ready to dig.....one big deep hole.............specially since we are already in a hole to begin with....

Thanks to the troops for taking care of us..........and condolences to the family of a fallen father, friend and battle partner......

Isn't it basically that simple???? Honestly, isn't it????? If I want to get out of debt, I gotta quit spending money I don't have......

As I have watched the news in the evenings, I have wondered how so many educated economist, politicians, leaders, gurus, what ever you want to call them....how can they not come to a decision? Why is it that they can't agree on what is right for this country. Why give more money to the money hole that got us here in the first place, we are told not to run up our credit cards, yet our country is flashing that credit card like there is no tomorrow. Stop spending money on the things that aren't essential, reel in the businesses that have gone overseas and put the American people back to work. And I am not talking about the American people who are here illegally.....

Here is a sign of the times for you....Lumber products out of Phoenix who I order lumber from for the school and when I do cabinets, had a sales rep stop by and give me a calendar, pencils and graph paper......first time ever that I have been doing business with them......he said they laid off 17 employees two months ago, thought they had their staff down to bare bones, then turned loose 10 more just this last monday. He said that none of the money that washington handed out made it to Arizona........ Gonna have to tighten up the belt and hunker down, it is gonna get rough....

That is funny, I just had that discussion with my wife yesterday after getting into a fight over the phone with a computer tech. from the Phillipines, that I could not understand...............I was hot under the collar before it was all over...... The interesting thing about this whole deal is we won't allow sweat shops here in the USA because it is unhealthy, not right, labor laws, etc., but we don't mind buying tenny runners made over seas in sweat shops.....

Watch a coyote eat a fawn while it is half way out its mama and tell me that ain't just cruel and inhumane. Fact of life in the day of a coyote and a would be born antelope. Life in general has some pretty ugly twists, leghold traps can be managed as well as any other form of taking animals and is pretty educational for a youngster, teaches responsibility, beats the heck out of playing a d@mn video game........

Bidwells......Al Davis all in the same boat....naw....Davis is the worst of the worst..........been a Raiders fan since Daryl Lamonica and Fred Belitnikof were in the lineup.......Steelers were always my number two team.......but I say go give'em double LL Cards.......

Yup, did lots of trapping as a kid in Southern New Mexico, go home after basketball practice in the dark with flashlight in hand and trail a drag left by a trap. Definitely a rush of sorts, lots of fun, plus releasing the neigbors beagle hound and having to go explain to them that I may have set traps a little too close to town, but it was in their best intrest as I was getting rid of the coyotes that were going to have their hound for supper if it kept running wild....... and yes you do need a license here in AZ, 50 bucks I think........

Go Raiders

Makes my stomach sick....I have three boys going to college, working part time, trying to start families...what do you tell them, hang in there and when you are done with school there will be a job for you? We give them all the help we can to pay for tuition and stuff but they really have to bust tail to help us help them. We had a teachers meeting so they could tell us of our budget cuts at our school, I teach woodshop so I am sure the axe will fall across my neck soon enough as things spiral down. We have been blessed with the work we have and I definitely don't have any room to complain compared to others. This country was promised blessings if we would follow the main man upstairs and this country has gone off the deep end. Bless all of you out there trying to raise a family, or just make a living and God bless our country.

Hunted 36B two years ago and saw the light.......and it wasn't pretty, pretty darn ugly to be honest and disappointing. So I put together a little slide show of all the mess we saw, sent it to several gov. agencies and news channels. About six months later I got a post card from Napaletano's office telling me how much they appreciate my concern for our environment and they have people working on the problem.....uhhhhhhhhh the only people I have seen trying to take care of the problem is the volunteers picking up the trash.......which in my opinion is the secondary problem that is a result of the first problem........you know where I am headed with this one don't you.......

http://www.ktla.com/landing_topstories/?Helicopter-Blows-Over-in-Wind-Kills-Mech=1&blockID=164440&feedID=1198 Hope the link works, but long story short. This kid took me an old fart and helped me with Unit 10. I coached him in football and basketball and he coached me on Unit 10. He never quite let me into his "honey hole" which I respected, but he got me close. We were out spot lighting one night, we found a huge bull, we are both glassing he was using his binos and I was using my cheapos, so he let me borrow his. Next morning, we meet at the High School early morning to go on a basketball trip he comes up to me and says, "Hey Mort, are my binos in your truck?" I said, I didn't know and told him I would look when we got back from playing basketball. We never found the binos and I felt bad so I told Curtis I would buy him a new pair cause I was sure I must have left them on the top of the truck or something that night. He refused to let me buy new ones for him, he only told me that the binos brand name started with an "S". Well, at the time I was not educated in the world of optics, so I go to Flagstaff and buy a nice set of binos made by Simmons, take them to Curtis and offer them to him and he kind of laughs and will not accept my effort to make good on the lost pair of binos. Years later and a few optics lessons it finally occured to me that the "S" brand was of course Swarovski and Curtis knowing I was a poor school teacher could never afford really to replace them had always declined to let me replace his binos. Curtis, I hope the unit you are hunting now is everything you ever dreamed and lord knows the optics there have got to be awesome. And to mom and pop Cauthen, one heck of a kid you raised there. Adios my friend

Looks like good times, congrats

Yep, the Hilltop gas station, I finally got my picture in there with my "average" buck in the big buck contest one year, they gave a Ruger Semi-auto rifle for that year. Could always count on a good story or two in there as well. Funeral services are Tues. 11:00am at the Ash Fork High school.........

One year, I was going to get ahead of the game and go out and set up camp. I took my two youngest boys with me, one was four and the other two. We were out about 20 miles north of Ash Fork, dirt road. Got camp all set up and ready to head back to town and the old 79 Ford wouldn't turn over. With the sun going down, I started hiking down the road, I knew the Sevens Ranch was about 5 miles away and didn't know what else to do. I was packing my two year old and my four year old was walking beside me in the dark with the blinking tennis shoes. He swore it was the only thing that kept a mountain lion from attacking us. We made it in to the sevens ranch and the rancher willingly hauled us into town. It is about 9:30 at night and I go get the Cauthens to come and help me out. John T and Curtis hop in to the truck with me and we head back out 20 miles of dirt road again, they help me get my truck running and followed me back into town. Dang good people,

I've seen success stories and horror stories, my father in law does alot of horse trading and decided to give the wild horses a try, did real well with the first one he got and then could not get the next one he got to do a thing. My guess is it might be the luck of the draw and how much you are willing to put in to one of the critters, cause that is what they are, wild.......

Tony, this ain't snapshot, but good to see your name on the board again, don't know why you been gone but have missed your info. Jeff

Hind sight 20/20, the weather changed where I bedded down and the fog drastically reduced my glassing

I think that is an early model shooting bench there behind papa, just kidding, great pictures..................

Fun write up on the hunt and there is nothing like a first fire being dry having to chamber in a live one, congratulations on the hunt........ Jeff

Good luck out there and whack a big one.......

Not a fun thing there, Tim and Dianne are both good people lets help beat the bush for them. Jeff

I;ll put money on Amnesty.....it is a coming, that will give the economy a jump start won't it???? Makes me want to puke all over again..........the AZ liberals are not happy that Napster will leave the controls in the hands of Rep. Brewer until 2010..........I say vote Joe for Gov.......

Raise the Bar??? Double LL.........that bar just went over my reach.....nice buck.....