dave, the new little lady of the house is doing great. thanks for asking. luckily, she looks like her mother! i'm not sure whether she cried "aaahhhhhhh" today or "bbaaaaassssss". i'm hoping it was the "bbaaaaaassss". we'll see!!!

well, since i had my time to shine, i will now let SVOBERTS (shawn) shine..... he and his wife are expecting...a peanut..according to the pics! 8 weeks, they look like a peanut! anyway, they are 8 weeks along, and i'm sure he's is as excited as i was/am. so congrats shawn, and keep us all posted. i'm sure shawn would be glad to send anyone the ultrasound pic if you just ask him to!! Lord willing, everything will turn out great.

well, i hope everyone is doing well. i have a suggestion BOB LUSK. can we put together a directory of (participating) members locations and numbers/emails, and corresponding dots on a map. that way, if we travel near that member, we can contact them and visit/correspond. all participants may be subject to a psychiatric background check however!! or maybe even an interactive program, where the member types in starting point and destination/route. then can choose 25 miles, 50, 75, 100, etc miles off route. then that route is shown, with nearby members according to distance off route. just a thought.

another thing that could be listed in that directory are participating members that may be willing to swap hunts/fishing trips etc. for instance, ol' NORM up there may want to come down here to arkansas and go small mouth fishing or float the buffalo river, or take his family/kids/grandkids out on the lake skiing. i may want to come up there and go pheasant hunting or kill some of his deer pests. the problem we might get into is... maybe NORM K only has 2 pheasant on his place, and i travel all that way and find out he was blowing hot air!! of course, NORM could always invite me up there and prove to me that his place is loaded with pheasants!!!! haha mark