Welcome to the Monday Minute of the Hunt Backcountry podcast.

These are shorter and more informal episodes where we answer your listener questions.

Steve, it's almost Christmas, your favorite holiday of the year.

You're feeling pretty jolly today.

Yeah, sure.

I don't sleep well last night, so it's artificially, yeah, sure.

Well, yeah, excited, man. We had, obviously the kids are out of their mind getting ready for Christmas.

We had a big, I feel like it's been one kind of Christmas thing after another.

We had obviously the office Christmas party, and then we did one at my house with some friends,

and then got another one tomorrow

with the spec families coming over to the house and and then yeah Christmas so it's been it's

been a lot that's been good are you the like the some I feel like as a stereotype dad these

days where you have no idea what your kids are getting until Christmas till they open them on

Christmas morning type of guy no that has been the case some years in the past but no i've i've bought all of my sons

obviously what's funny is i feel bad about that right like those are the easy ones for me i know what he

wants when it comes to my daughter i'm like i don't know. My son's easy with sports and things like that.

But no, yeah, I think I've bought almost all my sons and a couple of my daughters.

My wife and I just created a little Google spreadsheet and just tracking,

who bought what, and trying to keep things even for both kids.

Yeah, that's fun.

Well, glad it's not just you and I that have to exchange Google spreadsheets and Google Docs

to manage life.

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