Re: Companys you may not want to subcontract

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxx>]

"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Monday, April 9, 2012 12:13:32 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> >
>> > OH, come on Bob. I know you could afford at least a "new" refrigerator
>> > box
>> > with probably even an "extension" stove box for sleeping quarters.
>> >
>> > Doesn't sound too bad at that ..... with a river view and all!
>>
>> Actually it really doesn't.  I ran a trap line very seriously for a
>> couple
>> years back around 89-91.  It was the hardest and longest (Can see to
>> can't
>> see everyday) I have ever worked.  I lived out of my truck and my base
>> camp
>> during the season, but it was my favorite "job" ever.  Dangerous
>> sometimes.
>> Exciting always.  Challenging in more than a few ways.  Seeing my son and
>> my
>> daughter born were the only time I can think of that I have felt as
>> "alive"
>> since.
>
> I never went that far but I once lived in a cabin in the middle of the
> Adirondacks for close to a month, hunting. I had visitors to hunt with
> during the weekends but otherwise I was alone. It was adventurous at first
> but towards the end it became work. I like my alone time but I've got to
> have something to stimulate my mind. In the woods, eventually your
> thoughts turn to survival mode only and for me that became .... I don't
> want to say boring but .... I guess drudgery. Same thing ... day after
> day. Keorsene and Coleman lamp light is not good to read by, either. One
> day stands out. I went down to the stream to get water and there was a
> whole school of fingerling trout going by. Scooped up a couple of dozen of
> them, floured them and ate them whole.
> Oh yeah, had a black bear come up behind me while I was sitting at the
> base of a tree. I heard it coming but thought it was a deer. We scared the
> shit out of each other. I took a bead on it while it was running away but
> thought that I'd never be able to pack it back to the cabin by myself and
> I'd never dressed a bear. We alway ate what we killed and never trophy
> hunted.
>
> I got tired of venison stew too.
>
> I REAALLY missed pizza most of all .... then my wife.

Weeeeell, I was single back then, but I think you misunderstand.  What I was
doing was work.  Hard work most times.  I would have traps out on as many as
4 lines and cover as much as a 100 miles a day.  Often I would set up two
base camps, or set up a base camp at one extreme of my range, and only get
back to it every other day.  I had some real adventures.