Third Day of Hunting Season

My DH sent me this picture just a little while ago!  I'm so excited for him!

"We Interrupt this Marriage to bring you...Hunting Season."

This was a quote my cousin and I found at a sticker store.  When we both saw it all we could do was look at each other and laugh.  YES both of our husbands are hunters and NO they're not that bad but I think both of us have felt that way just a slight bit by the end of hunting season.  Fortunately hunting season only last about 2 months but I know many wives are glad when it comes to an end.

Don't get me wrong we love that our husbands can get out and go hunt and even better when they are successful and the freezer is full for the next year but there is a slight bit of truth to the above saying!  At times it seems like every extra moment (remember this is the wife's view) is devoted to hunting.

I guess I better be careful because my husband got me a deer tag this year so I'll one of those people giving up relaxing weekend mornings and quiet evenings to go hunting.  At least I'll be able to spend sometime with my DH even though I've learned that involves sitting (aka not a talking time) quietly and scouting for deer. Hey I'm learning!

In all serious I (and my dear cousin) wish our hunting husbands the best of luck this season and just know we'll survive the season! ;)

A Wonderful Busy Two Weeks

It is hard to believe that two weeks have past. So many things have happened that its hard to know where to start. At the begin of last week while my DH was elk hunting I spent the week at my family's home. Oh what fun we had. There was a lot of talking, laughing, eating not to mention sisterly goofing and shopping. It was also wonderful to visit with friends I hadn't seen in almost a year!







And while I has enjoying my time with my family my DH was having a wonderful time with the guys elk hunting and I'm excited to say he was very successful. He killed a 5 point bull elk on opening day. He spend the next two days packing it out of canyon. My DH's elk is the one of the left. The other two elk were killed by a son and his father. And the birds are grouse which they ate and also brought home some of the meat.






















The Monday of his return we cut and packaged all the meat. My DH and bro-in-law have been doing this for most of their life. I was the newbie! We set up folding tables in the kitchen covered them with butcher paper and began the process. DH rinsed the meat, Mar (bro-in-law) cut the meat, and I packaged and labeled it all. It took from 7-11pm to get it all done! It was only about 200lbs. of meat.








Then to add to the excitement of our week back it was last week of deer season. Both JB and I had tags so every evening we went out hunting and hardly saw a thing. On Friday my DH took the day off of work and we spent the day hunting and saw nothing except other hunters.





Both of us were disheartened and were looking forward to deer season being over but we wanted JB to have one last chance to go hunting. We picked him up from the B & G club at 3:30pm, 10minutes later he spotted a deer outside of town and he got it. It was a spike with little button antlers. JB was so happy. A smile stayed on his face all evening! He helped DH gut and skin the deer. He is going to keep the head and tan the hide!





And the week doesn't end there. On Saturday we added another animal to our household. We added a....well, I'll just save that for another post! :)