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Ok......One little side-story I have to tell you all about our Canadian moose hunt. This almost got me thrown into the lake. We used to have a dog that loved to have a tug-of-war with us if you had an old towel or rag of some sort. and while she did this, she would growl and snarl like some kind of rabid, wild, crazed, animal. Well, being the a-hole that I am, this sparked an idea in my evil brain. I had a portable tape player, and I put a 20-minute empty leader on the tape and then I started to tape all the growling and snarling of our dog while I had a tug-of-war match with her. It was beautiful.....That sound that she was making sounded like some unknown variety of insane wild animal. So, the first night at camp as soon as it got completely dark, we were all sitting around the campfire, talking and I declared that I was going to go take a leak, and I walked out into the pitch-black night away from the campfire and set the tape player down and turned it on.....Full volume. I had that 20 minutes of blank tape so everyone would forget that I had even been out there. All of a sudden, all that loud growling and snarling started to come out of the darkness. It was absolutely terrifying. I mean, here we were deep in the Canadian wilderness sitting in the dead quiet darkness, and we hear this supposed unidentified wild animal threatening the camp, growling and snarling. It was pretty horrifying. Everyone grabbed knives and whatever they thought would save them from this menacing wild beast and like the brave savior, I grabbed a flashlight and started out to confront the beast. They all trailed after me. When I finally got to the tape player, I dove on it and lifted it up proclaiming that I had killed the critter and started laughing at the joke I had played on them. I thought I was going to wind up in the lake, but we all had a great laugh, and still do today. Yeah, it was a mean trick, but I've always been a bit of a ball-buster.

It's a caucus. See the popcorn buckets on the table. Listening to the commentary it's hard not to chuckle; when you realize we're all just frucked. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/01/16/workers-count-votes-king-presidential-election-gop-iowa-caucus-2024-vpx.cnn

Collecting knives has added a side collection of sharpening tools and devices to keep edges sharp. I pretty much have acquired them all and they will all work well if used properly. My best knives are all sharpened by hand using various stones, it is slower and harder to learn but once mastered a shaving sharp razor's edge can be obtained. Below are three of my favorites, a diamond stone, a soft Arkansas and a hard Arkansas. The diamond is only used on a really dull knife to get the edge started, the soft Arkansas will so most of the sharpening followed up by the hard Arkansas for the razor edge. Like with just about everything else there are some youtube videos that can help one get started sharpening with stones in the right direction. Just got done with the Dickinson Crockett and it will shave hair no problem. Al

Yes it works and currently use it ! Download it and install it then use a " Where Am I " site such as " https://www.where-am-i.co/

Walleyes and northerns, but mostly they were supper.

Back in 1986, myself and three other coworkers planned an archery moose hunting trip up in Ontario Canada. We took 2 canoes and a small aluminum boat and all our gear back along an old dirt road for umpteen miles, entered a lake and went to the end of that lake. Then we did a 150 yard portage into another lake and then went to the far end of that lake and set up camp. It was to be a 1-week hunt.... No guides. We set up tents and that was home all during the hunt. We did our hunting in the first hours of the day and during the last part of the day. During the middle of the day, we fished and caught some of our meals. The fishing was great. I never saw nights that were so dark and it was so quiet like I have never experienced. These lakes were not occupied, and there was a feeling of total isolation. There was a grey jay that we could feed out of our hands. I saw my first and only marten on that trip. It just was a fantastic experience that I never would have had if we hadn't decided to rough it. Oh, and by the way, we did get a small bull moose. It was just a perfect trip.

Good post Doc, looks like you stirred up a bunch of great memories from all of us!