Always best if the Wife does not know....

Dave Diefenderfer

Dave Diefenderfer

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So many of you know about this addiction I have.... boats. Well my wife is aware, but apparently not the extent of the addiction. Sunday afternoon, Jeff G arrived to pick up the Black Brant II project hull. My wife came out to the driveway as we were talking and tying it down, and asked where that came from? I said it was out back, had it for awhile... she did not know it was there! So I suspect that she is not fully aware of what is in the back 12ftx24ft tent either! Guess if I can keep it out of her sight, it does not exist! Though the neighbors might have an objection...they don't get a vote!
 
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My wife is the same way. Has NO clue. I did get caught not long ago. I took out Insurance on my Guns. She opened the bill. I got home that night and she said, "YOUR GUNS COST $XXXXXXXX!." oppps

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I have the same sort of relationship with my wife over my gun buying and trading addiction. She gave up trying to keep up with transactions long ago. I guess she figures there's worse things I can be involved in this day and time.
 
That is priceless, Dave. Mine happened to be the day Bev asked me, "Al, how much did that lens cost that you have attached to your camera?"
Al
 
Dave - There is SOME truth to the rumor that my wife, Mary, tries to keep an idea about the color of the windings on my arsenal of rods........so I try to bring new ones in with a similar color scheme......
sarge
 
"Al, how much did that lens cost that you have attached to your camera?"

The correct answer is:

"You mean that old thing? I don't know honey, I don't think they even make them anymore!"

Feel free to use this if the need arises again. No need to thank me either, just providing a service. Hehe. Trip
 
"Al, how much did that lens cost that you have attached to your camera?"

The correct answer is:

"You mean that old thing? I don't know honey, I don't think they even make them anymore!"

Feel free to use this if the need arises again. No need to thank me either, just providing a service. Hehe. Trip

Trip,
Thanks a bunch---needed that. I have that quote of yours memorized!
Al
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I've always just been honest with my wife on purchases, but I obviously I must be missing the boat - damn.
 
Tod, she really is not completely in the dark, I think I have so many things through the yard, some mine, some others, that she just does not worry about it too much. Only time I get any grief is when she pays the bills, or the UPS guy pulls in the driveway!
 
Tod, she really is not completely in the dark, I think I have so many things through the yard, some mine, some others, that she just does not worry about it too much. Only time I get any grief is when she pays the bills, or the UPS guy pulls in the driveway!
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I'm just trying to learn from my family-values role models. I guess I have a lot to learn.

T
 
Eric, why would I want to ruin a good thing? She does not have a need to look out back, I am not going to take a whack at a hornets nest! And apparently the area in the basement behind the steps is not visible to her either, where I store my decoys? Of course the strategic placement of the 2 freezers and the Christmas decorations on top of them does block the casual view.
 
Haven't you guys learned anything? They are women... they don't have a say in how the men spend the money.....
 
Phil, I also learned very early, if she don't smile, you don't smile.....you can win, but not get the prize.... if you have it figured out better, do share.
 
Dave... have you not FF her? if not, you can cut corners and use the e-collar...


Funny...when I told Sarah my response.. she didn't smile... eh.. she will come around...
 
Every year, when Dave comes to my house in Vt for the annual hunt, he brings a stuffed bird that his next door neighbor, the taxidermist has mounted for me. He keeps it hidden in his truck till the day before he leaves and then he and I, mostly he, mounts it on the wall in the basement rec room. That evening when my wife gets home from work, she runs, literally, down to the basement to see what kind of bird Dave has brought with him this year. And every year we have the exact same conversation....she asks what Dave brought and I insist he didn't bring anything, and that those are the exact same birds that have been in that wall all year.

Since all my mounts are drake divers from Lake Champlain, and are all variations of black and white birds, she can't tell exactly which one is the new one. She came close the year we hung a drake common merg on the wall. She pronounced "that one with the funny looking beak is new!". I of course denied it and questioned her sanity. Unfortunately, I am running out of space on that wall. If I have to start mounting them around the corner and on to the second wall, all pretense will be useless.

John

PS, and I only buy blue steel guns with wood stocks. They all look alike to her....
 
John, the games we play..... don't think I will be able to bring that double Eider mount, table centerpiece without Maria noticing real quick!
 
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