I'm feeling I'm feeling spry

Besides this being the shortest podcast I've ever recorded, the shortest intro I've ever recorded, I did want to throw this in.

My daughters have been working on a store. Now it's not a store, a physical store.

But yes, we are bringing back t-shirts, we're bringing coosies, neckgators, water bottles, you name it, whistles, lanyards, it's going to be crazy.

But right off the bat for right now, you can go to my Instagram or my Facebook and you can get a link to the new HDP store.

So yeah, there you go. This is the episode you've been waiting for, shortest intro, shortest episode ever.

Hey everybody, it's Ron Bain with The Hunting Dog Podcast. It is the 30th of October. It also happens to be my birthday.

And I want to thank everybody for all the well wishes I got today from text, from DMs, to Facebook, to everybody.

I also want to thank my Patreon patrons, Pike Gear, Onyx, Boss Shot Shells, Walton's, Gunner Kennel's, Garmin, W Hunting Supply, Deck Drawer Systems, Weatherly Shotguns, Purina Pro Plan, K9 Athlete.

Yeah, I want to thank all of you, 65 years old. It's hard to believe, I don't get, I don't get like, oh my god, I almost, you know, I don't care about birthdays.

But it's kind of a milestone, it really is. And what really kind of made a milestone, my wife is in Florida right now, visiting one of our daughters.

And so I'm here holding a ranch down by myself, and I was upstairs in my office, and I pulled out a photo album.

You know, I guess maybe it's because it was my birthday, I just felt a little reminiscent, and I've got some photo albums from back in the 70s.

You know, we didn't have, I don't think we had, the only pictures I ever got were, you know, a few that somebody took when we were somewhere.

My mom and dad were not, you know, we weren't the polar, we weren't the polar right family, but I got a few pictures from back in the day.

And a couple of them just made me kind of go down memory lane. And when I was looking for that, I, in the page of this photo album, and I know most of you don't have photo albums because that's an old thing.

Everybody else got them on a phone or on an iPad, but, you know, everything was printed off and we stuck them in albums.

And I fortunately kept all of my hunting licenses, all of them.

Now I probably lost a few of them in the 90s or the 2000s, and I lost a wallet once and lost, you know.

But I mean, I have got my first Illinois hunting license. I got it right in front of me.

1972. And then it dawned on to me because I'm such a math whiz that my God, that's 50 years, 50 years.

And I will tell you, in all transparency, I was not hunting with a shotgun in 1972, but I was hunting with a bone arrow.

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