You know Soccer has been a big part of our lives for the last 10 or so years and we have traveled the eastern half of this nation from New Jersey, to Florida, Dallas, North and South Carolina.... We've met many nice folks and had great coaches (for the most part). I have taken a ton of advice from parents and coaches about soccer related issues and learned (and taught) many life lessons. So what the heck does soccer wisdom have to do with hunting? It's really very simple...Boots! Many soccer coaches call cleats "boots". They call the field the "pitch" and and 1-0 would be 1-"nil". Back to boots...One coach we had for several years would not let any of his players wear new boots until HE broke them in. He'd take their new boots home with him and he'd basically bend them in every direction possible, flatten the heals, bend the soles in half in both directions...quite a task. Soccer girl never had blisters after he started coaching her...we would break in 2 sets of cleats a year following the coaches instructions. For the last 2 days, I've been bending and flattening and distorting ONE of my LL Bean boots. I just put them on and guess what...one is basically broken in and the other is not!Soccer rules!
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LP: Glad to hear you have one boot broken in. Maybe when we get out onto that milo field pitch you can kick up a few birds with it. Took Bubba out to the farm again yesterday and shot a few shells with him standing right next to me. He didn't even flinch. I've been working him up to that slowly over the past few weeks. Hope it works in a real hunt. BTW, 3 ducks got up off the pond when we drove up. The bass were jumping as well. If we get our limit by noon, we can always go bass fishing.
That is awesome about Bubba. He should be fine. David's dog is the same. We went through about 200 rounds with clay pigeons and he stayed right beside us the whole time. He is being worked with pheasant scent to get smell locked in. I have no doubt the Scoobster will be fine.
Today, the dog trailer was completed. The lights work, the license is mounted, all the nuts and bolts are tight. We are ready.
JB: Lenny says the trailer looks better than it ever has. Good job! Can't wait to see it.
Hopefully, the work on the trailer will be up to the standards of the team. I will be forwarding pix to Len as soon as I get my camera back from Kelly. My friend David, and his wife, came over for dinner last night. He got to see the trailer. He thought it looked ok. jb
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