Amazon, Fur Trapping & Christmas

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Wm Cook posted this 19 December 2022

I had no idea what this thread should be listed under so I chose “Conventional Wisdom”. If inappropriate the moderator can boot it off as it has no correlation with cast bullets.

Christmas season is here and for many that’s a time of gift giving.  

This is more appropriately addressed to those that have been heaven blessed enough to have grandchildren.  And to those grandchildren have a grandmother that thinks she has been appointed by the heavens to be Mrs Claus’s little helper.

The gleam in my wife’s eyes as she makes frequent trips to retrieve Amazon packages from our porch reminds me so much of when I was a young teenager running my trap line.  My loving wife (46 years) can open, sort and Christmas wrap deliveries as fast as I could skin muskrats (back in the day). Bill.

Patience isn’t a virtue, it’s a delay tactic.

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RicinYakima posted this 19 December 2022

AHHH! I remember those years. Now the grandkids get gift cards from Grandma and whiskey from me!

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Boschloper posted this 20 December 2022

Whiskey from Grandpa?  I’m available for adoption. 

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Wm Cook posted this 20 December 2022

Probably not any of that low end stuff either.  Wonder if he'd give handouts to a bunch of old hand loaders singing Christmas carols?

Patience isn’t a virtue, it’s a delay tactic.

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John Carlson posted this 20 December 2022

Don't know how it happened but I've reached the point where my youngest grandchild is taking driving lessons.

And yes, Grandma still spoils them but no internet stuff, she torments the shopkeepers in person!

John Carlson. CBA Director of Military Competition.

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RicinYakima posted this 20 December 2022

Oh yes! While WA has the highest alcohol taxes in the country, at least you can buy it at the grocery store now. My Scot-Irish family calls it "The water of life".

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Wm Cook posted this 20 December 2022

Hey Rick, how is "The water of life" pronounced in Scot-Irish"?  Bet that takes a clever tumble off the tongue!

Patience isn’t a virtue, it’s a delay tactic.

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RicinYakima posted this 20 December 2022

Uisge Beath is how it is spelled now days. It is the translation of the Latin "water of life". The phonic pronunciation sort of sounds like "whisky", but that is slang. p.s. My family has made whisky for over 400 years; check out J. Abraham Bowman Distillery. Sadly, no longer own by the family but sold to a conglomerate. 

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John Alexander posted this 20 December 2022

Our front doorstep has also turned into the "trap" that needs to be visited often.  It may be too easy for our own good.  There used to be a little friction in the system when you had to slog to the consumertorium for the loot.

John 

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