I can never sleep!!!

[fox-admin]

Tomorrow is my 33rd year with my duck hunting partner Jeff. We were just kids and now a couple of mature guys still going pretty strong. It will be a very wet day a northeasterner with an inch of rain. Super Fox 31598 is packed in the truck. Lucy is in top form.
My wife has been very ill and been hospitalized for 3 weeks but she knows how important this day is so I have a pass. Hopefully the duck Gods will smile on me. Ya never know what hunt will be your last so I encourage all to get out and enjoy the beautiful world we have been blessed with.

[vaturkey]

Hope the better half feels better soon. Knock down a few ducks for Lucy. I always feel worse for the dog then I do for myself when there is no action. At this point in my life, much of the hunt is done to make the dog smile.

[Stan Hillis]

How well I know that anxiousness just before the season. My hopes and prayers are for Mrs. Larter to recover and come home soon.

Funny story about wives and duck hunting. Some years ago I was packed up to leave for Mississippi to meet four other Fox guys for a hunt at Beaver Dam Lake with Mike Boyd. This was the trip where we had five Supers in the blind at one time. Well, I was to leave early Sunday morning for the trip, but when we awoke my wife was gravely ill with, what turned out to be, acute bronchitis. She was so weak she could hardly get to the bathroom without help. I told her I was staying home, but that she was going to the emergency room. I packed her up, drove 26 miles to the hospital, and a couple hours later she was given an injection and a prescription for meds. We left the ER, got the prescription filled, and headed home. They must've given her steroids in the shot because by the time we got home she was feeling tremendously better. I got her tucked back in bed and settled down at the computer, thinking how I needed to call the other guys and let them know I wasn't coming. About an hour later she said she felt so much better she wanted me to go ahead to MS. I rejected the idea (half-heartedly), and told her I was fine to stay and take care of her. She said I wouldn't be any help to her, and for me to go, which I did. So, I arrived in MS several hours later than planned and met up with the guys at a hotel in Tunica. They only knew my wife had gotten sick, and asked about her when I arrived. I told them that she had been put in intensive care and the doctors and told me I would not be allowed in to see her for three days, so I figured I'd come on duck hunting. I then told them I was only kidding, and we all had a good laugh. Then, we went out and had a good supper and a good hunt the next day.

Good luck tomorrow, brother. I'll be thinking about you.

SRH

[OH Osthaus]

too funny Stan

Craig - everything except Macallan is in the truck ready to go - couldn't figure out how to put a roof on the boat when I test started the motor today

here is hoping for early steady flights and an early warm lunch

[MARSHFELLOW]

Good luck to you & Lucy my friend........ enjoy!!
tjw

[DarylC]

Anne is in good hands Craig so just go out and enjoy the sunrise and help Mark score with his 28. Life really does'nt guarantee you another opener so enjoy it, pack it in early after you limit out then go and give Anne a kiss fore all of us. I think this years trip to SD showed us how fragile life can be. God bless.

[jolly bill]

Craig,

I sincerely hope Anne is back to 100% soon. Great that you can do it the 33rd time and hopefully 34th, 35th and keep going.

The weather for you guys Saturday morning will be wet, windy and cold. Just the ticket for die hard duck hunters and their dogs.

Good luck.

Jolly

[Woody]

Tomorrow is my 33rd year with my duck hunting partner Jeff. We were just kids and now a couple of mature guys still going pretty strong. It will be a very wet day a northeasterner with an inch of rain. Super Fox 31598 is packed in the truck. Lucy is in top form.
My wife has been very ill and been hospitalized for 3 weeks but she knows how important this day is so I have a pass. Hopefully the duck Gods will smile on me. Ya never know what hunt will be your last so I encourage all to get out and enjoy the beautiful world we have been blessed with.

Good luck Craig. Heading out myself right now with the boys. It’s not raining here right now.

[MARSHFELLOW]

.........cold, rainy & windy here boys 2 hours east of you. Duck weather for sure. Our split season is closed right now till mid-November.
tjw

[loggy]

Craig, I will keep your family in my prayers. John

[Jim Cloninger]

Hi Craig, Boy, 3 weeks in the hospital. I will pray for her recovery. I hope you and Lucy have a good hunt. I missed the duck opener here for the 1st time I can remember.
Jim

[fox-admin]

Thanks all for the kind words regarding Anne. She was to be discharged today but more complications arose.
It poured rain here today but my partner and stuck it out and both got a nice mixed bag limit.
Another piece of bad news Lucy my lab blew out her CCL so she is done for this year and will need surgery. Our cattail marsh is brutal on dogs. So my son's Roxie will be my go to lab for the balance of the season. Always good to have a backup plan.

[vaturkey]

Dang, that sucks regarding Lucy. One thing about dogs, everytime we take them out we put them in harms way, but that's part of the bargain. The dogs wouldn't want it any other way. Hopefully she will heal up good as new.

[Stan Hillis]

Thanks for the report, Craig. Sorry about Lucy. She will miss it as much as you, if not more. Duck season is still far off here, but we had a fun time this afternoon on the dove field. See the "Hunting with a Fox" forum for a report.

Best, SRH

[Jim Cloninger]

Craig, I am sorry to hear the bad news about Anne and Lucy, 2 of the important females in your life. Keep in there, things will get better.
Jim