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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.

I've never understood the want for hen mallard decoys, especially in field decoys. The mallards out here like to tuck up near or under overhanging Russian Olives. When you drive along the river all you see is the light grey and black of the drakes, you don't even see hens. Black ducks just...

excellent. It looks like they did the trick. The last time I shot a black duck was in 1984, the first time was 1978 with none inbetween. I still use black duck decoys instead of mallards even out here in the west where there aren't any.

I finished up these 6 this morning.