Sat on log with my Uncle today

KILLER B · August 24, 2007, 09:02:00 PM

Thats a great story Rodger. Makes me think about my grandfather and all that he has taught and shared with me. In the last year since I moved to from Michigan to Tennesse he has been starting to fail more noticibaly I make it a point to spend as much time with his as possible when back home. I don't care if I hear the same story about his cat that follows him around like a dog back at the old barn five times in two days. I just like to hear him talk. Special memories with special people. And when god comes calling all we will have are memories.

sgrogg · August 24, 2007, 09:05:00 PM

Thanks for sharing......

Green Arrow · August 24, 2007, 10:07:00 PM

thanks for sharing! that's what it is all about. shuttin' up and listening to the elders

i like to do that same thing, ask a few questions and just listen. it is nice to see men being patient and taking the time, and making the time to soak it all up! thanks again for sharing, and for honoring your uncle. i think it really powerful and humbling to share a day like that.

enjoy the day,
kyle

Seeking Trad Deer · August 24, 2007, 10:28:00 PM

Rodger...that is the most beautiful story I have ever read on Trad Gang. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Mike

4runr · August 24, 2007, 10:42:00 PM

Thanks for takin us along. Great day.

CJ Pearson · August 24, 2007, 10:47:00 PM

Thanks Roger... Really enjoyed reading this.

Roger Norris · August 24, 2007, 10:54:00 PM

Ron - HA! He did.

Ron's refering to a saying my Uncle Jack uses..."Thank God we're us" that I had put on the limb of one of my Shrews. Jack and I, in the old days, weren't afraid of Irish whiskey, but we would never drink while hunting or in camp. We just didn't. We drank at home. Once in awhile.

Anyway, one day we pulled up to a public hunting area in southern Michigan, during gun deer season. There were a couple of "bummy" looking fellows in the parking lot polishing off a jug before they headed to the woods. Jack looked at me and said "Thank God we're us, Jr." You kind of had to be there but it was funny as hell at the time.

Tom · August 25, 2007, 08:15:00 AM

"PRICELESS"

Bonebuster · August 25, 2007, 09:14:00 AM

Sometimes its better to listen that to talk. If you are talking you ain`t learning.

Getting a recording of the conversations from someone that important is good advice. You will find yourself going back just to hear the voice.
(trust me on this)

Whatever you got from his birthday in the woods, imagine what HE got from it.

All those miles without speaking much? Go pick him up and go for a ride. Tell him everything you want to say. Give him a chance to learn. I bet he would love it.

**DONOTDELETE** · January 11, 2009, 11:19:00 AM

I'm glad this thread is still here. I found this picure at my Mom's house yesterday, It's of my Uncle Jack shooting a bow in 1969. I recognize where he is at, thats my Grandpa's farm near Travers City. He had a 2x4 frame with some carpeting nailed to it that we shot bows & bb guns at. It looks to me like Jack is shooting my Grandpas bow, (Jack was never much of a bowhunter, didn't understand the point when you could use a rifle) a Bear Tigercat which I still own and hunted with when I was 12.

Wannabe1 · January 11, 2009, 12:57:00 PM

Dispells the Cabin Fever, reading stuff like this!

Thank you for sharing and reminding me to be thankful for the freedoms we have. I hope to pass down such things to my 2 sons.

BowHuntingFool · January 11, 2009, 01:09:00 PM

Great story of a great day you had Roger! Thanks for sharing!

non-typical · January 11, 2009, 01:19:00 PM

Roger,

your uncle Jack gave you a blessing. Many folks go their whole life and never get that from the ones they love. It will be a lasting treasure to you.

Flinttim · January 11, 2009, 01:39:00 PM

John Nail took this picture 2 weeks ago . My grandson Jack and I sitting on a log pondering the days activities.Kinda goes with this thread, eh ?

Killdeer · January 11, 2009, 01:41:00 PM

"Time has a way of slipping the details."
I had a horseman grandfather, and I wish I had a beartrap memory.

A thread like this makes me wistful, wistful in that none of my family hunted so I never had a mentor handy. Wistful for the conversations that I never had with my elders, due to living far away. What a book that would make, to be snarfed up by folks like me who grasp for the experience any way we can get it. You, and Jack, have given me a gift. I thank you.

Killdeer

**DONOTDELETE** · January 11, 2009, 02:01:00 PM

That is a great picture Tim, and it sure does fit.

Killy, folks like you and I (and most people who post here) are lucky. We know how valuable the time is....we hunt for the memories, not the venison.

DW · January 11, 2009, 02:18:00 PM

GREAT STORY and I, too, hope he has many more stories to tell......Don Wilson

HATCHCHASER · January 11, 2009, 02:38:00 PM

What you have is one thing that can never be taken away. Nothing like the wisdom that comes from listening. Thanks a bunch! This thread brightens my day.

Tim Fishell · January 11, 2009, 07:14:00 PM

Great post Roger.

Lechwe · January 11, 2009, 07:28:00 PM

Roger,

Ger a tape recorder and record your uncle telling his stories. I have some tapes of my wifes grandfather from years ago and they are chilling to listen to today.

Great stories.