Oak Ridge
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Indiana
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I'll answer all the questions I can that have been posted.
First, no....I'm not dead. The past year or so has been a whirlwind. The company that I worked for for the past 15 years was bought out, and it didn't take long for me to find out that my job was being shipped overseas to India. That meant that the money tree quit blooming, and I had to cut back on many of my "luxury" activities. It also meant that I had almost instant "money troubles". Pretty sure that I'm past the worst of those.....but it's still no picnic.
I made the decision that I had spent my entire adult life making other people money while employed by them, so I left the comfort of Indiana and went on the road to take some training...I was "off the grid" for a number of months. I learned a lot and upon my return to home, I've been working at starting my own business. I know...I'm crazy trying to start a business in this economy...but hey, I'm broke anyway.
Bottom line, I've been busy enough that I've not really been spending much time on this web site....and haven't been hunting anywhere near like I have in the past.
As for rubbing folks the wrong way...well...dang it, never set out to do that, but I guess I've always been the kind of guy that "if you don't want to know....don't ask"...cause if you ask, I'll tell you exactly what I think on the subject. Opinionated...you bet....but I've earned the right to be opinionated over the past 43 years of coon hunting and raising dogs.
I still have Cube, and he will spend his entire life here. He gets bred three or four times a year...and I guess that is fine with me. I've never made one thin dime raising dogs, actually it costs me several thousand dollars every year. It makes it tough to continue when the money tree is not blooming, but I have a litter due next week, and Cube is in with a little double River Bend Flag bred female as I type this. He still trees coon every time I take him out....and he still wins in competition way more than he loses. And he is still one of the most enjoyable dogs to own and hunt that I've ever seen.
I have a pair of Cube pups that just turned a year old. The little male is going to make a dog, and the female may just have what it takes to make that "extra special" dog that we all look for. I'm not hunting enough right now to make a firm decision about either one of them.
As for the Uplinger's Joe female...no, she twisted a gut after weaning the last litter and she died suddenly and unexpectedly. Quite a loss, but I have a pair of pups out of that litter. I've had some trouble with the paperwork on them since she died, but have that worked out...and will get those pups going here before long. The female is a nice little dog, but the little male is a fireball!
If I've offended someone, well, I didn't mean too...I would hope that you would forgive me for that.
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