I wish each of you a safe and productive season and for your dogs, as well.
I will have to sit this one out and be content in handling my dogs for friends, for water retrieves as after they pass shoot over some of the sloughs around here.
If I could gun the opener, I would use one of the hammer guns. I acquired a little Thomas Wild a while back that would be fun to take afield.
Well Bob, it does look like you'll have to watch the balloon go up from the confines of that recliner, but we would rather see you sit this one out and have some more to enjoy. So I will miss a few (OK, so maybe not a few) of the gray rockets in your honor, and we shall re-spin our yarns of halcyon days of young legs and young dogs, hammerguns and home.
This Sept. 1 will find me afield again with Cocoa, now five, and my Manufrance Ideal 16, tossing 3/4 oz reloads at the feathered fighters on afterburner.