Really sorry about not posting more blogs recently, it's been a little hectic to say the least. I know it's not a good enough excuse, but it's the best excuse I have at the moment!

We are at our ranch in Saskatchewan right now, about to head to Saskatoon so for today's (Sunday's) event at the WILD TV's big Huntfest extravaganza. It should be a ton of fun! Since I grew up in Saskatoon, I'm looking forward to spending time getting to meet more of my Saskatchewan fellow hunters. I'll be at the Cabela's booth at the show for a couple hours as well.

One unfortunate deal on this appearance is that the advertising someone put together for the three Huntfest shows, one in Winnipeg, one in Saskatoon and one in Edmonton, implied that I would be appearing in all three shows. This is untrue. I was only ever signed on to do one show, the Saskatoon show, and only for two days. So I know there have been disapointed hunters at the Winnipeg show, expecting to meet me, but I wasn't there obviously. PLEASE UNDERSTAND, THIS MISTAKE IN ADVERTISING HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ME!!!!! Whoever put this advertising program together made a mistake and the WILD network people are trying to straighten all this out. Hopefully in time for the Edmonton show. Even my aunt from Alberta phoned and said she'd see me in a week in Edmonton at the show, but, of course, I had to tell her that the advertising was wrong, I will not be there.

Enough of that. In other news, I did make it back from Peru safe and sound. I managed to take a second buck on the last day of the hunt, so it was a success, a great success compared to my last two hunts there. Gabriel Cruz was excellent as the outfitter and so was his assistant Miguel. Nice guys. They worked very hard to get me the export permits from the government and managed to get them just as I was leaving for the airport to catch the flight home. So there officially was the first hunt, according to the guys in Peru, where the hunter (me) was 100% legally licensed (if you followed my blog during the hunt, you will know about the difficulties we had in getting that license) and/or where the government gave legal export permits for the white-tailed deer I took down there. So that in and of itself was an amazing feat and thanks have to go to Thomas Saldias, the Latin American representative for SCI for working so hard to open Peru for legal hunting by foreign hunters.

My next hunt is in Mongolia, I'll be shooting for both my show and for the Professionals. Really looking forward to that hunt, going after two sheep species and two ibex and a gazelle. I'll be in the country, travelling from top to bottom and can't wait to go on that adventure!

The Professionals show is doing great! Thank you to everyone who took the time to go to our website and to our Facebook pages and write us about your thoughts on the show. The reviews so far have been wonderful and the show, we promise, will get even better!

Fred Lackie, my Operations Manager is up in the Yukon, getting our camps ready for the fall moose and caribou and grizzly season. He's also getting prepared to take our first sheep hunter up the mountain for Dall/Stone sheep. Jay Fernie is the hunter, and I know he's looking for a Stone sheep. If anyone can find him a good one, it'll be Freddy. We have averaged just over 40 inches on the sheep we have taken with our clients, so there are some good ones out there. It's a tough physical hunt, though, but it is also about the most affordable Stone sheep hunt anywhere I'd say. We have a second sheep hunter this year, a great guy by the name of Jeb Balize, so hopefully the weather will cooperate and Fred gets both hunters their sheep! Our moose season starts right after the sheep hunts end, and by all accounts, it is shaping up to be a great year!

Dan Goodenow, my VP of Sales and New Territory Exploration has just returned from a exploratory trip down to Hawaii. I hunted there earlier this year and thought that beautiful state was one of the best hunting destinations I've ever seen. Dan has been trying to reach me via email and phone, but honestly, Louise and I have been taking a couple days off at our ranch. I've been out picking red cap mushrooms and eating them every day! I love wild mushrooms and have been picking them and eating them since I was a youngster and my Grandmother and Grandfather Miller (my mom's parents) taught me which were good and which were bad. I also found some wild prairie lilies!! Really pretty and really protected plants in Saskatchewan, you cannot pick them.

And for all of you who really just want to know how the whitetails are doing this year, I can tell you that I've never seen so much rain! Water everywhere which means great antler growth on the bucks, maybe the best ever! All we need is a long cold fall and snow in November, and I predict Saskatchewan will produce some giant bucks. Yesterday I took a drive with Louise toward Biggar, where Milo Hanson killed that world record back in 1993, just to see the land there. It is like visiting a hunting Mecca!! We didn't see Milo, but we did meet my Uncle Glen for dinner at a great golf course, the Oasis, built in the middle of the Saskatchewan prairie! I'll bring my clubs next time.

Now for the sad news. Louise has been by her father's side for nearly six weeks now, he was given a week to live back when he was first admitted to the hospital, and somehow, through his strength of will, managed to pull through the emergency and was actually released from the hospital to be able to go home. Louise has been there nearly every day, along with a live-in nurse for some of the time and a part-time nurse for the rest of the time. Len got well enough to be able to walk to the mailbox with his dog Booboo (named after our dog 17-year-old dog Booboo).

Louise needed some time off from caregiving, so she came with me to our ranch in Saskatchewan, but late yesterday, she received a call that Len is back in the hospital. This is sad news, but not totally unexpected. Len is a fighter, a man's man by every definition of the word, but at 82 years of age, there are battles that even a warrior like Len has to fight for his life.

Thank you to everyone who sent well wishes to Len during his last hospital stay. Louise read all your emails to Len each day, and there is no doubt your kind words of support helped him deal with the constant pain he was in.

I will try and keep my blog updated now and again, my apologies for not keeping it current.

It's been quite a summer so far ... welcome to my life.