#20

I checked my box of steel shot shells this morning to confirm my suspicions. Yup, 10 shells used since duck season began, and 10 ducks in the bag. That's not to say i haven't missed, i missed twice, but somehow got 2 bids with one shot on two separate occasions. That's a story of God's grace. Joanna and i have been able to eat enough duck and give a few away as well.
Thursday is my chosen day off, which sometimes means something and sometimes not. Today I am only filling out a few reports and doing some assigned reading. Also a few phone calls and emails, but not too much. This morning Ben and i were hanging out and we decided to make one more attempt at a musky. It was cold. Somehow a porky 38 inch musky mustered up enough energy to hit my big bait on a figure 8. My real was frozen and i couldn't release the spool for a bit, but we got it figured out eventually. Nice fish; rounded off the number to 20 on the year in the canoe.
I'm getting ready to leave tomorrow for another week, this time to Illinois for staff training. If you don't hear from me much the next month, don't worry. I'll be in Illinois, deer hunting, Thanksgiving, Madison, getting married, and i think a conference in St. Loius is in there somewhere as well. That's all coming up in the next month. I'm VERY thankful for Joanna's work on the wedding planning. It's true i don't have much time, but i'd also rather light myself on fire than do most of the stuff she's been doing.
I'll check in at some point soon to shoot out a quick update, but i hope to see many of you at the wedding December 1st!