The winner will be announced tomorrow morning!!!

I need your help!!!

The Hunter’s Wife is looking for the perfect tagline. That’s me and that is where you come in.  I am looking for the most creative tagline from the most creative person.   Take a peek around my site and get to know me.     

A tagline is a memorable phrase that will sum up what my site is about. Like a slogan.   

The contest will run from today, December 12, 2007 - Friday, December 14, 2007.  The winner will be announced bright and early Saturday morning, December 15, 2007.

These are the rules:

• Please be nice and not naughty.  It is Christmas time and this is a family site.   
• One (1) creative entry per person.
• Please leave your entry suggestion in the comments section after this post.
• I will then choose the most appropriate and creative tagline for my site.

My lucky winner will receive this brand new DAC Technologies Electric Meat Grinder.  The grinding tube can handle up to 2 1/2 pounds per minute.  It comes with three sizes of grinding plates, one cutting blade, one sausage horn and two stuffing tubes, a Kabob screen, pusher and cutter housing wrench.   It also has a reverse button.  This is great to use to process your game, make a variety of sausages, jerky sticks or any kind of meat you’d like to grind.   It’s sturdy, durable and easy to store away.    

If you have any questions, you can email me at jody@thehunterswife.net.

Good Luck Everyone!!!  I can’t wait to see what creative taglines everyone comes up with.

I have seen bloggers writing 10 things about them you didn’t know and as I sit here to write mine the words just won’t come out.  

I thought this was all I needed to tell my story….. 

 This was me BEFORE becoming The Hunter’s Wife

The parties, the dresses, the friends.

This is me NOW

The Hunter’s Wife

30 degree weather in 10 layers of borrowed camouflage

The End

The next contest will be on Wednesday, December 12, 2007.  Put your thinking caps on, it’s going to be a creative one. 

The Hunter’s Wife

Congratulations Robert Cline!  Your score of 144 7/8″ was the closest to Mark’s actual score of 145 7/8″. 

Jenn - You were oh so close. 

Nekked Lizard Man - Sorry, the hat was not included.  If I see another like it, I just might have another contest to give it away so check back often. 

Robert Cline - email me at jody@thehunterswife.net to claim your DAC Technologies Universal Select Deluxe 63 Piece Gun Cleaning Kit.   I hope you enjoy!

Thanks so much to all who played. 

Check back sometime next week for another Contest Giveaway!

                                                                                                    The Hunter’s Wife

I seriously debated on what type of contest to hold.  Because of the gift I am giving away I chose to hold a contest for the Hunter.  Now, if you are not a hunter but know one, have them help you out.  If you don’t know one, or are wanting to win this for the hunter in your life, you can do a google search or just take a wild, wild guess.  

Here is the contest;

Score that Buck

Here is one of Mark’s big bucks.  It has been scored by Buckmasters in which he received an Award Certificate.  The first person closest to his actual  ”Score” will be our lucky Winner.

What do you win you ask?  This brand new Universal Select Deluxe 63 Piece Gun Cleaning Kit from DAC Technologies.   This kit has been configured to allow the all-around shooter a one stop option for cleaning firearms.  As you can see it has all the gadgets you need to clean a variety of firearms.  It comes in a wooden box for easy transportation or to store away.   Mark is always cleaning his firearms and uses the same kit.  I thought this would be the perfect gift for one of our fellow hunters.

The winner will be announced bright and early Sunday morning, December 9, 2007.  I can’t wait to ship this to my lucky winner. Good luck to all of you!!! 

Post your score in the comments section please.

If you would like any other information you can email me at jody@thehunterswife.net .

If you would like to review more great products from DAC Technologies or find something for the hunter in your life you can do so here.

It is that time of year, Christmas!!! I love Christmas.  I love the snow, the decorations, the music and of course Santa.  But most of all I love giving.  So this month, I will be holding 2 separate contest.  The first contest will be held Friday, December 7, 2007.  That’s tomorrow.  

Tell your family, your friends, neighbors and blogger buddies to check back bright and early Friday morning. 

Thanks and have a great day!

Before I had met Mark, I had never ate venison meat.  Well let me correct myself.  I did once by MISTAKE.  A friend of mine would have a game party every year.  For those not familiar with a game party, everyone brings a dish that includes some sort of dish with NOT your typical meat.  Typical meaning normal beef.  These dishes included venison, rabbit, squirrel, etc.  So I filled my plate with the safe foods.  Noodles, salad, brownies…nothing that included meat so I was safe. 

I can’t recall who brought the beef and noodles but my friend INSISTED it was your typical beef, not venison.  At this point I was starving.  I need meat.  I am your protein kind of gal.  After drilling her and drilling her and her insisting it was not venison, I made my plate of beef and noodles.  One bite and I knew what I had feared.  It WAS venison.  I couldn’t eat it.  No matter how much everyone tried convincing me that it is good, it is good for you, it taste like chicken, don’t be a baby, its all in your head.  I just couldn’t do it.

After Mark and I were married, I still couldn’t bring myself to eat it.   If he would make dinner I would check the garbage can to make sure the empty package was from the meat I bought at the store and not the packaged Bambi from the freezer. 

Over the years, things changed.   We had a freezer full of venison that I was determined I had to eat.  So one night I told Mark go ahead and make venison steaks for dinner.   Ohhh the fear I had.  And the sweats.  I didn’t want to see it raw.  I didn’t want to see him cooking it or smell it.  I just wanted it on my plate so I could hurry up and get it over with, like a kid screaming and kicking forced to eat peas.  That was me.  Whining and all.   But I coated it with A1, mixed it in my potatoes and forced it down. 

To this day, I still have issues but I do eat it.  

Does it taste like chicken?  No, no and no. 

Why am I ashamed …. I do post recipes but they are Mark’s.  Mark is a great cook and eats a lot of venison. 

 Please don’t hold it against me!  I am really trying to overcome my fear.

For those of you who use Blogger as your platform, are you aware that you may be losing comments?

Blogger has changed their comment fields and eliminated an important feature for us non Blogger users.  When us non Blogger users would respond to a Blogger account comment, there was a field in the comments section for “other” that allowed us to use our name which would allow a link back to our site when clicking on our name.  Sometime last week Blogger (Google) eliminated that feature.  Non Blogger users are now forced to either just leave their name with no link back to their own site or setup a Google Blogger account and from there include their site.  Or not leave a comment at all which is what I have been hearing.  Let me tell you it was a pain this morning but I did end up setting up a Blogger account. 

So for those who use Blogger, do you think this will affect your blog?  And eventually affect your traffic?  Have you had other complaints?  

At our cabin house we have many mounts.  A bear rug on the wall, 3 bucks, squirrels, a coyote and a boar.  That ugly boar scares me everytime I look at it.  It is hanging there on the left wall.   I can’t tell you how many times I was bent over cleaning the wall and carpet under it only to stand up, bang my head under it’s jaw and knock it off the wall.   Ummmm…..Mark, I’m sorry!

Here at home, we have more bucks, squirrels, fish, a coyote, oh heck the whole wilderness.  With that there is cleaning them.  To clean the buck, I take the vacuum and I run it up and down Bambi.  I look in his eyes (I know there is a tear there) and say a little pray to him and tell him he is safe and warm and not in the wild anymore.  He is admired by those that walk through the door, those that drive by and the curtains are open and those who are peeking in the window.  He is addressed each time by my 2 year old niece that comes in and says with a huge smile ”Hellooo Bambi”.   She loves Bambi!  While vacuuming him and engrossed in thought, Mark walks in and says, would you look at him….his hair is up and down and all over.  Then he shows me the appropriate way to dust him.   Here are his cleaning tips for his precious mount:

• Run vacuum downwards.  Not up and down.
• Then run your hand down like a brush and smooth out his hair.  Sort of like you are petting him.
• Take a dust rag and slightly, gently, clean the horns. Please make sure to be extra careful.  You wouldn’t want him to fall to the ground.   Your toe will hurt for days and then your husband will ask you why he looks crooked on the wall?  And then you will have to explain, with a questionable look on your face, that you have no idea.

There isn’t much to cleaning your deer mount but it is one of your most precious possessions that needs tender loving care.