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my wife grew up on a farm in Vandalia, Illinois. She was big into 4H for cooking and sewing and even raised a Hampshire pig every year to show at the fair. Her mom was the home economics teacher at the high school, so she was exposed to a lot of that kind of stuff as a kid. Now she is the...

My mom's family was dirt poor and food was pretty scarce for her 4 siblings and herself. They only had meat on birthdays so I guess her experience cooking meat was pretty limited. Her dad was a quarter Cherokee, an alcoholic, and gone most of her young life, my grandma was doing about anything...

I don't know if it's just me, but I don't have a problem eating most any duck. Usually it's a mix of ages and species when I cut up and brine my duck into finger steaks. A couple of things I routinely do in the blind, is NOT to put any of my ducks in a pile belly down which is so common in...

that's looking outstanding.

There you go, love them bufflehead. We only saw a handful this year, but we were covered up in bluebill and goldeneye.

that's right, you are retired now. Busier than every, but doing what you love to do rather than what you have to do. 19 degrees above here this morning, the shop is hovering around 54, so i put on a sweatshirt and a hooded fly fishing shirt and it was pretty comfy. i can remember going from...

That looks pretty ambitious. I can't turn around in the shop without running into a goldeneye. Our season ends a week from tomorrow and then a lot of them will either be sold or put away.

It sounds like a blast.

There is definitely a different color tone on those hens. I need to try some other colors of flocking in the beige/tan/orange end of things. I really wished I had some sort of raw sienna or caramel color of flocking. I haven't shot many hen redheads and the photos I looked at varied widely, I...

finished a pair of redheads today. I've had the drake finished for a few weeks, but finally put some paint to the hen. There were at least 13 color changes on the hen.

I have yet to find a blue or green oil based enamel I like. You can bend colors by pixel painting. Pixel painting is painting two different colors to create a color, think of your paint spray as tiny dots or pixels on a digital image. For instance you want a brighter green on your mallard head...

I did a little enhancement on the speculum of one of the mallards I've been working on. I used a blue oil based paint pen to make the blue a little more defined. The white is hand painted with flat white oil based enamel and the edges cleaned up with an oil based paint pen,

I had some mallards on the heels of those canvasbacks and black ducks. I finally got them finished this morning.

William, my son Caleb works in a dental lab and works with a 3D printer everyday. He's going to buy the same printer he uses in the lab to print the keychains he's been selling on our website. He has a whole bunch of stuff he's going to be doing once we get that printer going.