Written by: Kristine

When Jody first asked me if I would write a guest post for her blog I really didn’t have much of an idea about a topic. Generally ideas for topics find me, usually at 3 a.m. while I’m trying to sleep. The posts where I try too hard to find something about which to write are the posts I generally like the least.

Today I was trolling for inspiration among the archives of this blog. I was reading about Mark getting poison oak and Jody’s funny idea about telling Bambi to run, and tales of numerous trips to Cabela’s and laughing and often nodding my head in mingled agreement and remembrance. I am, after all, the daughter of a hunter and a fisherman. The chaos that hunting and fishing seasons can cause is very familiar to me.

What struck me most about Jody and her blog is this: she gets it. She understands that hunting can be an obsession and that it makes Mark part of who he is, the man she loves. She understands that a man who goes hunting leaves plenty of space for his wife to cuddle up with a good movie and a glass of wine, and that time spent apart makes time spent together that much more precious. It is just a bonus that Jody also gets her points across in a very humorous way.

I’m not a hunter (yet), but if I were one I would want my husband, if he didn’t hunt, to be as understanding as Jody appears to be (I am aware there are things she may not tell us). I’m not a wife (yet), but if I am ever one, I hope that I’ll remember the lessons that Jody has taught here and let my husband be who he is, and love that person, grunt thingymajigger (or its equivalent) and all.

If he gives me poison oak, however, all bets are off.

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