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I don't know about you, but as my family grows my personal time is getting less and less. My obligation list is getting extensive: church, family stuff, work, etc. If I want to hunt I have to do some serious planning. Sunday was a classic example, didn't want to miss church but wanted to hunt. Thankfully, it worked out and a good time. Click here if you want to read my formal report: http://wp.me/p3bCKM-sh Meanwhile, enjoy these pictures of free range pork:





I do enjoy hunting pigs, even if I'm a bit rushed. Am I the only one facing this issue? How do you guys balance your obligations and hunting?

In some parts of the world, hunting clothes and church clothes are the same thing.

Isn't that the truth! Those dude's are dapper.

shoot them from the house, during lunch.

I appreciated reading your full report and share your values, Andy. No one ever said doing the right things would be easy...but you and your family will be rewarded. Blessings! Bruce

I struggled with not wanting to miss hunting on Sunday because of church and after church home group.

This year I told my home group I had made a commitment to them to be at group meetings each Sunday, other than emergencies or family obligations, but not to miss them for hunting. My hunting season ended on opening day.



Committing to church changed the blessing level God bestowed on my hunting time, just like giving tithe blesses your finances.

I sense change coming...

Well done!

I appreciate it. Keeping priorities straight is difficult, but can be done.

Doesn't everyone dress like this for church?

I face the same dilemma. My Saturday mornings are now spent watching soccer games. I work for myself so tend to take a morning or afternoon here or there during the week, unless those dang clients get in the way

Yea, overall it just takes planning. I think I'm finding that if I keep the right priority in focus (God and family) I can plan appropriately.

It seems to me a lot of folks would have just slept in, drunk coffee and watched some ESPN gone to church. I got up, shot a porker, skinned it and made it into church.

For so long, I always heard "Better enjoying X now, because once you ( A) get in college B) get married C) have kids) you will not have any time for XY and Z." To me, that's a sad statement.

Church for me is out in God's Creation. There is no conflict.

Yep, followship is where you find it, you don't need no walls and a minister for it.

Oh Lord here we go again!



Mike

I do some more clear thinking sometimes in the woods than in the buildings. But I enjoy both.

Pretty simple though, but we dont' have kids, we just do some here, some there so to speak. There are times we miss church, but certainly not God. And other times we dont' miss church, but can miss God at the same time.

I've learned that lots of things get in the way of life though.

My fire pager has yanked me off the stand etc... more than a few times, just because the need at hand according to dispatch was no minor need, and I could alwyas hunt or fish etc... another day. And when those days end, it won't really matter much anyway. Fire pager has yanked me away from a LOT of things that were important at the time it was going on...

So I think its just a matter of juggling the load. As you seem to have figured out.

And the other thing... approaching 50, I sleep or nap when I'm tired. DOesn't matter the day or time much.... if I get tired I take a nap. Ends up much better in the end. And whatever was on the to do list, didnt' get done, but it gets done safer and faster the next time we get back to the to do list.

I know there is time for sleeping when we die, but I don't want to speed up that time to die either, by lack of taking care of whats left of the body right now.

WHich means even in Alaska on vacation, if the morning or evening says nap instead of hunt, fish etc... we both do that.

Yet if we need to get up at 3am to get somethign done on time or before somethign else, we'll do that pretty often too.

There is a difference between hunting and church?

When my brother was killed overseas everyone thought it terrible I didn't give up my elk hunt. The funeral was overseas, my grieving was done in the mountains. We were very close and I know he would have wanted it that way.

Hunting season just pisses off the spouse.

Attend to the job, stay home, take care of the "honey-do" list, go to church, PTA, kid's sports events, get involved in charity/community events (especially send money to every one you get in the mail), take the wife to musicals and operas, vacations to places you don't care about, etc. Never use "personal time" for hunting.

Life will be easier. I speak with 37 years of experience.

Come this time next week the dog's surgery should be healed where I won't have to watch him to keep him from licking the scar open again (the last stitches- what he left - came out yesterday, the chewed part should be closed up by tomorrow).

Then I'm gonna piss the wife off again...... That generally lasts until some backstraps hit the butter.... mostly she's PO'ed cuz she chooses to work instead of going out with me. But that's her problem...

Sounds like a personal problem don't it?!!

Good thing my church is God's country, camo or blue jeans required, although carharts are accepted.

Two years ago , I shot decent antelope buck on consecutive Sundays after church and after they wife had prayed out loud in Sunday school for an honest chance at some meat for the freezer!!!