Hey Germ,

I found the perfect line of hunting products for you.
I think this was designed with your special needs in mind.

W-T-F did I ever do to you? I wonder if that lotion will make my skin feel silky[8D], ooh look lip balm, I hate chap lips when I am kissing critters Hair Gel? I should get a discount, I do not have any. Ahhh face moisturizer, I hate wrinkles

Well boys tonight is family night at my daughters Catholic School, then to bed. Great weather this weekend!!!

Good, it's quiet in here, that means everyone is out hunting I suppose. [8D]

I'm heading out for a nice pm sit on a beautiful day next to a pond. I'm already relaxed just thinking bout it.

Good luck this weekend guys and gal.

I don't know where to start guys.

Well here goes, as most of you know, my wife has been battling Lukemia since last Oct. 25th. She spent almost 2 months in the hospitol here in St. Louis last year. They couldn't find a perfect match for her to do a bone marrow transplant.

So in January of this year we took her up to Minneapolis, MN for an experimental transplant using our daughters stem cells, since she is a perfect half match. The transplant did not work and she came back to Barnes Hospitol here in St. Louis in early April. She was well enough to come home in late April. They have not been able to find a perfect match for her, and have been keeping her disease in check with low dose Chemo. In the last few weeks it has worked less and less. The Lukemia is getting stronger and she has been getting weaker.

She was to the doctor yesterday and he said the disease has begun to attack her nervous system. That is why she is haveing trouble walking and her speech is slurred. He said it will probably progress very fast from here and she might only have a few days to two weeks left to live. Needless to say things are a bit of a mess around here and hunting is not a top priority right now.

So I might stop in and visit every once in a while to see how things are going, but I won't be out in the woods much. ( I have family that has volunteered to stay with her and let me get out, but I just don't know if I feel like it right now.)

I left work yesterday when I got the news and told them, I didn't know when I would be back!

Good luck to the rest of you guys and gal. And I hope I get back to hunting sometime this season and can contribute to the team score.

Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we go thru these trying times.

Thanks to all of you,
John Mueller

John take care of your family ! You, your wife and family have been in my prayers since you told us earlier about this and will continue to be !

I ask all of team chaos and the rest take 60 seconds out and pray for John and his family.

Prayers sent...

John, I can't imagine what that's like.

We are praying for you and your family.

My dad hosted the church youth hunt this weekend - only 4 boys with their dads went this year.
All 4 boys got to shoot and 3 killed does. Sounded like a good time. When I bring my buddies, umm,
the kids show us up. On our best opening day rifle stand, after shooting they sat on the stand
and saw about 15 deer cross the right of way (no big bucks though).

I'm going to try to cut them off close to that location this weekend with a climber - should get in
some good hunting Friday afternoon and the weekend.

Due to very thick CRP, may even try some Shed ground blind tactics. You really can't hunt those
critters in there very well, which I guess is why they love it. I also need to get in there and look
for some rubs, scrapes, and trails but it's still real dry right now for scouting.

Frustrated because one good area we set up on was showing a few nice bucks (that's relative
of course) on cam, but now there are gone. Maybe setting up the stand (about 20 yards away)
spooked them a little (about a month ago). But hopefully they will settle down. At least I think
it will be a good rut stand.

Its been a frustrating weekend. Ive hunted a scrape this entire weekend and didnt see anything. I'll be moving to a different stand tomorrow and hopefully I will have a little action...