Good Morning Grant,

   I hope you had a great Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year.

 Looking forward to connecting again on a nice Canadian whitetail. Hopefully the weather will get cold for the season and get those big ones moving. This year your camps did not produce as many big racks as we've seen before. I do agree with you that the big bucks hunkered down during the day to keep cool. There should be plenty of monsters (maybe even more than usual) to go around next fall as they will just be a year older and bigger. Let's hope for a mild winter and good fawn crop.

 Please send me a contract for the 3rd week at Green Lake for next fall. (Nov 15-20). I do have a couple of guys really interested in going but due to the economy, they cannot commit at this time. I will try and entice them with your booking special you have posted on the website. However, that should not hold me up. I'll get a check out right away.

   I can't begin to tell you what a great experience I had in 2008. Muff took real good care of me and was a lot of fun to be around. He put me in a spot where I scored on a 300lb+ 10pt (140) on the first day and was the biggest deer I've ever seen and shot. Meeting Mike Hanback then getting my 15 seconds of camera time on his new show was the icing on the cake. If you recall, you stuck me in a room with Matt Hughes and his buddy Brett. I had no clue who he was and didn't figure it out until Muff mentioned something about getting Matt's autograph about 4 days into the week. (I think I had their names mixed up for the first few days!) I had seem UFC only a little bit. I've become a UFC junkie since! Matt was such a gentleman and is a great embassador for that sport. I also met many great guys who I still keep in touch with. My trip to Green Lake was awesome on so many levels. I guess it's down hill from here! :)

   I met up with several hunters last year on the return trip home that either went to Shockey's camps or other camps in the general area. They were all hanging their heads with disapointment. They either didn't see many deer, had poor accomodations, had poor quality guides or a combination of these.  That just confirmed what type of operation you run. Every hunter saw many deer and almost all had an opportunity to shoot a mature buck. You can't ask for more than that.

   Keep up the good work Grant and I look forward to your blog updates. I'm counting the days until next fall.

Best Regards,

Paul Milata

Hey Grant, I made it home at 12:15 am on Friday night. Thanks again for everything. Thanks to the hard work of Dean Kuypers, Brandon Schreiber, and Cody Dyck everything came together for me to get the best Buck of my life. The beast scored at 167 inches with a ton of mass. Buck Paradise Outfitters is a class operation for which you should be proud. I was well taken care of from the moment I arrived until I departed. Give those boys up at the Goodsoil camp a pat on the back they really know their business. This makes the 4th Trophy Buck and 2 nice Bears I have taken with Buck Paradise. As you know I have already booked with you for next year and I am already counting the days until I can come back to the land of the Giants. Well thanks again for making my dream come true. I will see you guys next fall. Take care.   

Dec.25/09 -  Merry Christmas Everyone. I am up early today as I went to bed early last night for once. I have some lake trout in a salt brine that I am going to go get on the smoker today. Before that I will load up the wood boiler. Then I might ride the bike after I get the fish going. Then by that time the boys should be up and we can open up some presents. I hope everyone has a great day with family and friends. I am very blessed to have so many of them. Thank you all! Here is a great letter that I received yesterday from a very good close friend Philip Quick. Thank you Philip. Have a great day everyone. Grant

Dec.23/09 - Thanks Melissa, I like it when you write on here. Please feel free to do so anytime. Merry Christmas to you and Brandon also. And Merry Christmas to everyone and the best to you all in the New Year. Well, I have been pretty busy since the season has finished. The weekends are loaded with Garet and Ians hockey. Shelly and I took a few days last week and took off. It was nice to get away. We left on a Tuesday and were back Friday in time for Garets hockey game. Garet and his team are doing very well. They are 21-1-1 so far this season combining tournament, league and exhibition games. The last few were tougher though and this is a good thing for them. The beat out Manville 6-3 last Friday. They beat Wainwright 4-2 on Saturday and on Sunday they had a tough hard fought game vs Cold Lake and came out on top 3-2. They were suppose to play this Sunday but that has been cancelled, but I am looking for a game for them this Sunday  maybe vs a Battleford A team. Ian and his team on the other hand have been having a battle. They have won 1 game and tied 1 game. But hopefully they keep working hard and make the playoffs. Lenora and Skip, Joelene and Ty are coming down to Moms for Christmas. Shelly and the boys and  I are staying close to home which is nice. I hope to catch up on some office work and maybe even get out and wet a line ice fishing. After the last time I wrote on here which was Dec.14th I went outside to load the wood boiler. I had a huge log and I rifled it in as hard as I could and there was a root on the end of that big log which handly grabbed my left thumb as it pummelled into the boiler smashing my thumb into the door. OUCH. I slowly took of my mit to a bloody thumb, but I was happy to see it was still attached. I headed into the house and Shelly looked at it and sent me to the hospital for stiches. I got 3 of them. It is healing quite nicely. The stiches are out a week ago and I can bend it ever so slighty a little more each day. Could have been worse. Bookings are going good for this early in the year and I am going to get really busy here after Christmas to try my best to get things booked up as early as possible for next year. Well I have to finish my deer records now. That should have been done a while ago but I never have been able to get around to it yet. I was in Lloyd Christmas shopping yesterday. I started and finished all in one day. YEA. Ian is still feeding deer out behind the house and has 2 decent bucks on there feeding. I hope he gets some more coming in and we find a bunch of sheds. I might go sledding to the mountains Jan.01. I am looking forward to that as I hear the snow is awesome. There is still not much around here. Ian is chomping at the bit so that he can get his machine out. He did go out today as we got about 3 inches here in the last couple of days so I just saw him get it out of the shop to go for  a little spin. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Bless you all and I hope to see you in 2010. GRANT KUYPERS SIGNING OUT! Oh ya..... I started riding my bike again this morning. It felt good, but the legs are a little sore. I am going to hit it hard from now on all winter.

Dec.16/09- Hello everyone!  Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year.  Brandon will be coming home from work on Christmas eve and is home till the eleventh of January.  We hope to get some coyote hunting in, and possibly sledding, if it snows some more that is.  It has been a blistering -40 here for the last week.  So driving an hour to and from work every day hasn't been too much fun!  I am really looking forward to next years White Tail season, we had lots of fun this year at Goodsoil camp and we got some great deer and also met some great people!  Well I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Take care

Melissa

Dec.14/09 - Thanks Brandon for getting on here. I appreciate it buddy. Well yes, the season is over for another year. We ended it on a high note with long time Buck Paradise Outfiitter hunter Philip Quick knocking down a giant. We had pictures of this deer coming in to his stand and he wanted to stay a couple of extra days to try to get it done. We are sure glad that he did. The buck he shot gross scored at 181 4/8 inches and will net 172 4/8 inches. Just a incredible deer for a great guy. Garet and Ian have been going hard with hockey. Garets team is doing very well. They have only lost one game in the last 15. Ians team is struggling a bit, but they pulled off there first win yesterday. Like Brandon said, it is cold out. It is suppose to warm up by the weekend which will be nice. The boys and I cut wood for a couple of hours yesterday. That wood boiler eats a lot when it is cold like this out. Barely no snow on the ground around here yet. Green Lake finally froze over last week. I am looking forward to heading up there and doing some ice fishing later on in the winter. Shelly and I are heading out for a few days out of this cold weather. We will be back on Friday. Garet plays Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Ian plays Saturday & Sunday. So I will be back in my office on Monday Dec.21st. Thanks to all again for coming up to hunt with us this past season and a Big thanks to all of my staff. We could not do it with out you and we truly appreciate all of you and your hard work and dedication to Buck Paradise Outfitters. I have some of the last deer pics to post and I am going to go do that right now. When I get back in the office I will be working hard on getting things booked for the 2010 hunt season. Interest is high and that is good to see. Take care all. Grant.

PS - I was at our annual outfitter meeting last Thursday and Friday. No real big news. It may look that there may be a possibility of Non res being able to buy a wolf tag..... AGAIN... This is just in the works. But we are hoping something is going to happen sooner that later.

Dec.12/09 - Hello all, we are getting a bit of cold weather in Saskatchewan right now but the good thing about it is there is hardly any snow. The deer still have plenty to eat and don't have to work to get food or to get around so the weather won't harm them a bit. Grant appologizes for not writing on here latley but I will vouch for him to say that he has been dang busy running his boys around to hockey and getting things wrapped up and put away after the season. Theres quite a bit of before and after work that comes along with the whitetail season but i can guarantee when Grant gets all caught up he will have something to blog on here for anyone who keeps up with where we're at and what we are doing up here. Dean and rick have everything brought in and put away over in Goodsoil and Corey, Kevin, Jason and Jeremy down in Paradise Hill are probably sitting down to enjoy a nice cold beer after getting their gear in and put away neat and tidy ready for next year. Grant, Dean and I plan to get out to the mountains to do some snowmobiling in early January so hopefully the weather cooperates and lets us do so. Rick has never done this before cause he lives in Australia so it should be fun watching him. Take care everyone have a good night.

Brandon

Dec.11/09 - Brandon here again. Well the 2009 deer season is offically over. I am back up working in B.C in the oil fields until Christmas. The weather has deffinatly cooled off after having a mild fall. Its only a few months till things start to warm up and we will be finding shed horns. We had a great year of hunting and had a lot of fun with all of our old and now new friends. We harvested great deer out of all the camps and the success rate was equally the same.  I want to thank all of the hunters that come to spend time with us up here in Saskatchewan, We work hard to give every one of you the best trip possible and hunt some of the best hunting grounds Saskatchewan has to offer. I enjoy every minute i get to spend out in the wilderness with all of you avid hunters knowing we all have the same goals of having as much fun as we can and laying some lead to a giant deer.  Bear season is just around the corner so anyone wanting to come up and get a great bear do some fishing and possibly shed horn hunting give Grant a call and he will set you up. Have a good Christmas everyone can't wait till next fall. Feel free to drop me a E-mail ( gusseroo@hotmail.com ) or give me a call  780-870-6510.

Dec.04/09 - Hello everyone. It has finally cooled off. There is also a skiff of snow. It has been a decent week of hunting. I have some hard core trophy hunters in camp and they are holding out for mr.big. Some guys are seeing deer and some other stands are slow. Full moon this week and really for Dec it is still mild for us. I was back up at Green Lake on Wednesday to get a stand out of the bush and to sit for a hour to see if I could catch a big buck coming through. But nothing. I then went up to Goodsoil that night. Hung out with Bro Dean and Brandon and Rick and there hunters for the evening. Lots of laughs and we had a fun time as usual. Then I headed back up to Green Lake on Thursday and finished cleaning up odds and ends there and then back home just in time to take Ian to his hockey practise. Garet has 4 games this weekend. I think by Sunday night he should be tired. We are in Kitscoty for a tournament (3 games) which is only 1 hour away and then we are off to Lac la Biche on Sunday (3 hour drive) to play a league game that day. Only two more days of whitetail season left. I have 3 guys coming in to shoot elk on Sunday. By Tuesday the camps will all be empty for another season. It is sad. But I will be busy as hell talking to everyone and rebooking everyone up for next season. I think if the winter keeps on as easy as it has been, we will be in for a great 2010 season. 2009 was good. A few really strong bucks and then lots of good 140 and 150 class bucks. We have 2 hunters still hunting up at Good soil. They had a very strong year this year. I still have 8 hunters hunting at Paradise Hill yet. So hopefully the deer start to move and we get a few more yet this week. A high light for me this week was seeing young Noah Quick get a really good buck. I like seeing these young guys hunting and getting excited about it all. Noahs a great kid and we hope to see him coming back to Buck Paradise for many more years. His Dad Philip brings up a great bunch of guys every year and they have all become family to us all here at Buck Paradise. Outta here for know.... G

Nov.25/09 - Another beautiful clear blue bird day up at Green Lake. Lake is still open and it will be well into December when it freezes I think. A few more nice bucks coming in the door today and last night. I have been busy on here working. Booked a couple of hunts this morning for 2010 so that makes me happy. I also cleaned house in my office/bedroom. Stuff sure piles up and I gave away a bunch of clothes and trashed a bunch of things that I will never use again. Health Inspector was here at Green Lake yesterday. We got a big thumbs up and I would like to thank Cindy, Janet, Theresa and Christine for all of there hard work preparing great food and keeping our lodge beautifully clean. I am sitting here writing this and listening to some Willy Nelson. Great artist. I may head to Goodsoil later on today to meet the hunters that we have there this week. Brandon just went with a hunter that shot out yesterday and shot a elk up at my friends place. So that is cool. I helped the boys out in the shop last night skinning some deer and hung out for a bit. Pretty calm. Only 10 hunters at Green Lake this week. 7 left to shoot. Well back to putting a few of the pics from today and yesterday on the sight. It is good to see Brandon got his shit together and got his pics caught up on the sight. Later all!!!! Grant

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Nov.24/09 - I finally made it back up to Green Lake. Still warm considering it is Nov.24. Suppose to get up over 32 F today, but it is cooling down pretty good at night. One of Johny guides just radioed in with a buck. Said he was chasing a doe, so the rut is still going strong. Been a very easy rut for the deer this year. Warm weather, no snow and a lot of food in the woods and on our bait piles. Deer are happy. We continue to get some really good bucks despite everything being in the deers favor. Green Lake is on its last week of hunting. 1/2 the hunters I usually take out of Green Lake and Beatty. This means to me that there are a lot of great bucks out there that did not get hunted this year. This means to me that there are going to be a lot of big bucks running around for the 2010 season. Good reports from our hunters that the fawn crop from last spring is strong. This means that the deer came off of a good winter last year. We also saw some stronger horn growth this year especially in our Goodsoil camp. I am already excited about next year. I have guys booking for 2010 already so I feel good about that. Paradise Hill camp was booked this year and is doing very well again. Goodsoil was only 1/2 full but compared to last year they are pulling out some awesome bucks this year. They have hunters this week and the next also. Paradise Hill will also be hunting the rest of this week and then next week. We will be finished on Dec.05. Garets hockey team had two games on the weekend. Winning both handly 6-1 and 9-1. Ian on the other hand had a tougher road to haul and his team lost both of there games but they were fairly close. They are a small team and I think they will continue to get stronger as the season goes on. Well I am going to go put some more pics on the 09 whitetail gallery from last week mostly from Green Lake. They had a great week again, downing some great mature bucks. There are still geese flying around in the area... I have never seen geese around this time of the year. That is how mild it has been here for the month of November. Here is another great email I received from one of my hunters last week. He was hunting in Paradise Hill. Note... Brandon and Dean are still hunting from the Goodsoil camp next week. They have 5 openings. Call today to still get in. They have a bunch of strong bucks on camera. It is suppose to cool down a bit next week and these bucks will start thinking food again as the rut is slowing down. Call me. 1-780-214-4638. Here is the email I received and thank you Doug for sending it. G Kuyp.

Nov.20/09 - Good bucks going down, despite the warm weather. Check out the 09 Gallery. I am back in Paradise Hill but getting ready to head back to Green Lake to see everyone up there. Goodsoil has had another great week with only 1 hunter out of 7 to shoot yet and some really impressive bucks. Green Lake shot 3 dandys yesterday the best scoring out at 165 inches. Paradise Hill as always has been solid all week. Again I think if it was cooler we would be seeing more activity. I have been to Goodsoil then back to Green Lake then back to Paradise Hill then to Edmonton and then back to Paradise Hill and know I am going back to Green Lake. I think I will need new tires after the season. haha. All is good. Well I have to go put my combine away before we get snow. I think everyone is pretty much done the harvest now. Take care all. G

Nov.17/09 - I got the Ranger out of the woods. Was not easy. Blew up two of Chads back shocks on his Quad $600.00 Bills to get that fixed but what do you do???? It is all good. I will take it to Meadow Lake today and get it running. Hopefully just something simple. We fell through the muskeg a couple of times with the trailer that the Ranger was on. Heavy load... But we got it. All good. Weather is warm.... Very warm.... Deer are rutting hard.  Here is a good email my good friend Larry Hanshaw just sent me. Makes me feel pretty good about what we are all doing. Take care all. Grant.

Nov.16/09 - Read the next Blog as I am continueing on from it first before you read this part. So... Garet and I drive home and I get to see the hunters and some pretty impressive bucks. A 157 rolled into camp and another 18 point awesome buck is sitting there. Everyone is happy. UFC fights are on and I sit back with the hunters and some friends to enjoy them. Good job Randy Couture on a win.... Sunday Nov.15th. New hunters coming into camp. Garet is heading back to Wainwright to play in the A final. I get the hunters coming into Paradise Hill all settled in. Then I head to Paradise Hill with Ian to watch him play. They lose 4-1 but it was great watching Ian play. Garet won 4-1 and win the Tournament. He was happy and rolled into the shop last night where I was with a big ol trophy. So, I am thinking I am going to stay at home tonight and catch up on some sleep when my phone ringings. It is my good friend and hunter Randy Girard who was hunting up at Green Lake. He tells me to get to Green Lake as he just shot his best buck ever and he wants me to be there as they are leaving this evening... SO i get things ready, say goodbye to everyone at Paradise Hill and I am off to Green Lake. I roll into camp around 11:00. Sat around bsing with Randy and some of the new hunters that arrived today till about 2:00 AM. So much for catching up on sleep. But it is all good. Dean and Brandon have 7 guys hunting at Goodsoil today. They have some pics of some great bucks and I hope they get them. I am going to try to get some pics of last weeks bucks updated on the website and then I am going to head up north to go rescue my Ranger. Been a great, fun, lots of driving past week. I love it. Thanks to all my guides, cleaners and Shelly and the boys for all of there help. There is no way I could do it all without them... Even close. Okay. I got to get some pictures on the sight. Later all.... Grant.

Nov.16/09 - I feel like singing the song I've been everywhere man.... It has been a very past busy week and know I have to catch up on our website again. I spoke with everyone last Wednesday on here and I will do my best to retrace my steps since then. Been a crazy past week. So Wednesday night Nov.11 I headed back home. Garet had a hockey game that night, so basically I got home, grabbed him and headed to the game. They won 8-2 vs Lloydminster. Garet scored one goal and had one assist. Got home and most of the hunters from Paradise Hill were in bed, but a few where up so I visited with them out in the shop for a bit.  Thursday Nov.12 - I played catch up a bit in my office at home. My Moms new house was coming in today and I had to be in town around noon with a tractor to help pull the semi that was hauling the house up the steep hill where my Moms lots is in Paradise Hill. All went well and know Moms house is sitting on its foundation. She is very excited and it is good to see her happy. It is a very beautiful house and she deserves it. After I am done with the house it is off to run my combine for the afternoon north of Turtleford, SK. Things go well there also and I really enjoyed running it for the little that I got to. My buddy Rick who has been helping us out then came around 8:00 PM and took over for me as I wanted to go see the rest of the hunters at Paradise Hill. I got there in time for supper and got to see everyone including my guides and had a great visit with everyone. Friday Nov.13th.... Should have really stayed in bed today. Lucky Friday the 13th... So I get Garet up and we head back to Green Lake 1 1/2 hour drive one way. We get there and load up the Ranger with Johny and head into the Islands. The trail in is good for the Ranger and we get in no problem. We get to our 3rd bait and the day is going great and Garet is really enjoying the day. As we are driving into our 3rd bait I said to Johny and Garet that is would be great to find a nice pair of sheds on one of these baits. We pull in and Johny and Garet look in the grass about 20 yards from the bait and both say... What is that. Garet runs over there and pulls a deer skull out of the grass..... 20 POINTS on this dead ol Buck. I am extatic. And so is Johny and Garet. We admire this buck for awhile and I wish he would have been on one of our hunters walls but I am happy knowing that we have these awesome Genetics in our area. I will post pics of this buck soon and I am going to get a permit and get this awesome buck mounted for one of the lodges. He scores in the Mid 160s buck what a great character buck. I think he was there last year but we could not see him in the snow. So we carry on and we finish doing all of our baits. It is dark out and my Ranger which I have not used much is gettin low on gas. I am concerned. Being that it was dark even though I had my GPS I was a little mixed up on which trail I should be on. Well we were on the right trail but I doubted it and turned around. We went back a bit and turned and came to a dead end. I was backing the Ranger up when it quit... GREAT.. I thought it was out of gas. So we started to try radioing the lodge which cross country was 12 1/2 miles away and I was not sure if the radio would reach that far.... Luckily it did and I got a hold of Chad. So there Garet and Johny and I sat in the dark. We made a big fire and it was pretty peaceful and good to be hanging with Johny and Garet. Only problem being is that Garet was to be in Wainwright, Alberta the next morning for hockey. 2 hours later Sheldon and Chad roll in with some gas. We fill it up and the thing will not start. No spark.... Lucky Friday the 13th right.... So all five us quad out on two quads leaving the ranger in the woods which I have to go try to get back to the lodge at Green Lake today. We get back to the lodge and we eat and Garet and I hit the road home. He sleeps all the way. I am tired.... We get back home at 2:00 AM and Garet heads to bed. Rick pulls in the same time as I do from running my combine. We bull shit for awhile and I go to bed. I am up at 7:00 AM and getting ready to take Garet to his hockey tournament. Another 2 hour drive to that. Long story short on the hockey end of it. They win both there games that day and are in the A final on Sunday... Nov.15th. They dont play to late afternoon so Garet and I head home back to Paradise Hill another 2 hour drive. I am going to post this as this is way to much typing and if something happens I will lose it all.....  G

Nov.11/09 - Thanks to all of our Veterans...... Weather is still warm.... Great for the guys harvesting yet. A little tougher on the deer hunters. But they are still out there and we are getting them. Dean my Brother from Goodsoil who runs that camp up there and is partners with Brandon and I in it called me up last night pretty excited. If you look at the camtracker pictures on our 2009 whitetail deer gallery and find a camtracker pic called SALTY with a big ass buck at it. Well we got him last night. Larry Hanshaw our only hunter at Goodsoil this week sat there all day Monday and then Tuesday at 11:00 AM the big guy showed up. He smoked him. I thought looking at the pictures that this buck would be around 170 inches. He grossed out at 167. Great buck with tonnes of mass which B&C scoring system sucks at. But it is a great true trophy whitetail and I am happy for Larry as he has been with us many years and has stuck to Buck Paradise and has killed a lot of great bucks, but this is his best to date. I will post pics of this buck as soon as Dean emails them to me. I will also repost the camtracker pics of this buck when I post them on the website with Larrys Buck. Dean first hunter was John Iverson. John sat 4 hours and shot a 153 inch beauty buck and then Larry sat for a day and 1/2 and shot a 167. THat is pretty damn good I would say. We are only 1/2 booked up there and I think it is a good year to be at the Goodsoil camp. We also have great pictures of big bucks at Green Lake and Paradise Hill. I talked to one of my guides at P Hill this morning and he has pics of a big non-typical with 3 drop tines. He is excited and has hunters in the area. Hopefully we get him. By the looks of our cameras there is excellent horn growth out there this year. Call if you would like to come up. We a good deal going on some cancellation hunts. I may head home today and combine for a few hours and then go watch Garet play hockey this evening and see my hunters at Paradise Hill. I updated the availability link but here it all is again. Later all! G

Nov.05/09 - Sat with Ian ALL Day. Not a deer to be seen.... This is my 4th day in the blind... I know exactly how the hunters feel. Hopefully tomorrow we will get a good buck infront of Ian. He is frustrated with over 40 hours in the blind. He passed up on a nice 10 yesterday that I am thinking he wished he would have shot. I am thinking he was waiting for me to be there which is good. I hope we get one tomorrow as it is Mossy Oaks cameraman Steven and Coles day here with us. I want so much to get Ians first whitetail on film just like Garets. Green Lake is doing well... 12/17 and some good bucks are down. I am heading up there tomorrow night. I will get those pics posted on the weekend. I promise. Garets pics are on the sight and so will John Iversons and Rylen Kuypers who both shot there bucks up on our Goodsoil property. Still time to book for this year. Looking to be a good one and we have lots of room at Green Lake and Goodsoil. WISH Ian luck tomorrow. Pull for us... Thanks. Grant.

Nov.04/09 - I know, I know.... WHERE ARE THE PICS OF THIS YEARS DEER SO FAR GRANT???? Sorry everyone. I have been hunting or I mean sitting hard with Garet the past 3 days. Day 1 was pretty busy and we passed up the buck that we shot today on that day. Day 2 was very slow. A doe and fawn right of the get go in the morning and nothing till 5:45 that evening. What a long cold day. Today was awesome. Lots going on and a beautiful old 4X4 over 300 lbs walked in and it was over. Garet made a great shot with his 243 Remington and the buck only went about 15 yards and was done. All this will Steven Bush one of Mossy Oaks best Camerman behind him. We got some great footage and will make for a excellend show on one of Mossy Oaks T.V shows. It is late and i have to get to bed as I am going to sit with Ian tomorrow. He had a bad first two days without seeing a deer. Then today we moved him and he had a good day and passed on a pretty good 10 pointer... I hope it comes back tomorrow when I am with him. It was so cool hunting with Garet. They did a great job and when I get done with them, I will write a lot more detailed story on the hunts with them and Mossy Oak. Green Lake is doing well. No monsters from what I hear, but good solid bucks and a camp full of happy hunters. Wish me luck with Ian tomorrow. I promise this weekend I will get a shat load of pics put up on the sight. I have a lot with a bunch of camtracker pics and the deer that were taken this last week up at Green Lake. Good night all. Sorry for being a bad outfitter, but I am so enjoying this hunt with my sons. Grant

Oct.28/09 - Hi Everyone. Well I have tried to copy and paste our local weather for the week here around Paradise Hill. I have been busy with everything. Sat on the combine yesterday for about 5 hours till it started to rain again. Not much progress in the late harvest that is left. As soon as it gets nice out and a guy can go it turns to rain or snow. It is snowing lightly right now. I wish my combine was in the shed but I have to help my neighbors out. I heard yesterday that they figure 25% of the crop is still out in Saskatchewan. That is a lot. The boys at all the camps are going hard with baiting and getting everything ready. I have 1 hunter going into Goodsoil next week. I have the Mossy Oak cameras coming in on Sunday to video Ian and Garet on hopefully shooting there first whitetail buck. Green Lake has a full camp coming in including Pat and Nicole from Driven TV. So lots going on. By the looks of it outside I wont be combining today, so I will head back up to Green Lake to help out up there. My guides have there cameras out and are reporting seeing some strong 150 class bucks out there. Nothing HUGE yet, but we just started getting them all out. Garet had a exhibition game last Sunday vs Lloydminster. They won 5-0. They have there first league game on Saturday. Ian has been practising with his team and doing well. Well Corey and Kev and Jason are out in the shop. I should go see what they are doing. Talk to you all when I get up to Green Lake. Take care. Grant .... By the way. The weather is great for whitetail hunting...AND Garet and I saw a beauty 160 class crossing the highway by home the other day coming home from his hockey game. They are starting to move. Later.

 Oct.22/09 - I am up at Green Lake. Great to be back. I came up Tuesday night. I baited the lake baits yesterday and did some walking around. It was great to be out and about again and the lake was beautiful. Saw a few moose. Lots of fresh deer shit around the baits. They were waiting for me. I am headed North this morning to do a few in that area and then I am heading back to Paradise Hill. Garet has an exhibition game tonight vs Wainwright. I am to say the least excited to watch them play. Ian is practising with his team in Paradise Hill tonight also. I am looking forward to seeing his team start also. I combined till 3:00 AM on Monday night. I helped the one neighbor who is Garets coach finish up his oats, and then around 10 I headed to Huschs to help them out and went till 3 on wheat and finished up the field. I was ready to combine on Tuesday but I woke up to snow and rain. It is raining again today and I think the farmers that have harvesting left are getting a little yancy. If that is a word or not, I dont know. But they are getting nervous I guess you could say. All the boys up at Green Lake are doing fine and going hard getting stuff put out and searching out new spots. I also baited up a new spot last night when I got off the lake that I found bear guiding this past spring. Looks to be a good spot. Well I better run so I can get back to Paradise Hill in time to get on the Happy bus that Garets team uses and go to his game. UFC fights this weekend. Not sure if I will be around home or up at Green Lake. Its good to be busy. THINK BIG DEER. G

Oct.19/09 - Snow is gone now and really that is not a bad thing. Still lots of crop to be harvested yet. We went to the neighbors this weekend and started helping them with there standing oats. We had some work to do the combine before that and know its good to go. Goose hunting is done for another year. There are still geese around. We hunted last Thursday AM. Good shoot. Right by my house again. We just sat in the bush on chairs. It was awesome. We shot 24 geese and 25 ducks that morning. Check out the pics on the 09 waterfowl gallery. I spent the day in the shop cleaning yesterday. We repainted the floor in the bar part. Place looks great and is ready for hunters. All my guys started baiting today up at Green lake, Goodsoil and Paradise Hill. The weather is nice. Highs of about 40 and lows of 32 forecasted for the week. Hopefully the showers stay away. I went to Vermillion   Alberta on Saturday to do the hockey scheduling for Garets team. They start the league on Oct.31. I am excited to see them play and I am working on getting them some exhibition games also. Ian will start practise this week with his team also. They have also been really busy with volley ball and school. Things are good. I have lots of opening for whitetails the 3rd and 4th week of November. Give me a call. Looking to be a good year. I am going to go post those pics of the last hunt now. I did buy a 40 by 8 by 8 foot sea can container. I took one up to Green Lake and one for here on the farm. The one at the farm is FULL of goose hunting stuff alone. At least it is all organized and in one place. I plan on selling some of our older but still awesome shape goose decoys. Call me if you are interested. I will try to get some pics going on the 09 whitetail sight of us setting up for the whitetail season. Take care and we will talk soon. Grant.

Oct.13/09 - How things can change in a week. It got COLD. It got SNOWY. Goose hunting got TOUGH....But there are still lots of geese around. I hunted with my oldest son Garet last week and we had a lot of fun. It was the first night it had snowed and that was on the 8th of October. Well the snow is still here. There is a lot of crop out yet and I may do some custom combining for a neighbor. Jeremy Ford, Rick and John hunted this morning and we did pretty good on the geese. It is sure cold sitting out there or did I mention that. When I last wrote on the 7th there were 10s of thousands of geese in the area. But that changed on the 8th. It got cold and it moved a shit load of geese out of the area. All the small ponds froze over and even some of the bigger lakes around. There is still open water and I was a little worriedn but after this morning I realized big time that there are still a tonne of birds in the area. Lots of big honkers and ducks. They are getting tough to shoot as they have been educated. We still knocked out a limit yesterday though. We were in a barley field with Round bails and we hid behind the bails because the blinds really stick out bad with the snow on the ground. I have no snow covers, but I am getting some... It was a fun hunt. Yesterday we spent the day in the shop after the hunt. We organized drawers and tools and the place looks great. A good friend of mine John Iverson is down from Alaska and he stopped to hunt for a few days. He brought us a wack of fish, some of which we caught last summer with Bowers. Plus some big Silver Salmon. We smoked them last night and this morning they were ready and MMMMMMM are they good. Well I am going to go for lunch. Garet made the Tier 1 Rage hockey team. There were some very tough decisions on some of the kids that did not make it.... He practises tonight and Thursday and being that I am the manager I am looking for a game for them on Sunday. Our Ice will be in our rink on Thursday. Ian and a few of his buddys from Paradise Hill will be hooking up with the neighboring town of Hillmond to play with them. SO everyone has a home to play hockey on. This is good. Later all! G

Oct.07/09 - Sheldon and his crew slammed another limit this morning no problem. Windy and cold and the birds wanted in... Barcley and Kevin and Joey also shot this morning and limited out in no time also. I have not heard back from Johny yet, but I think Barcley said they just needed a few more for a limit. So, the bird hunting is still fantastic. Wish we had more hunters coming in. Hopefully it will pick up next year. I spent all day in the office yesterday. Got a lot caught up which is good. Called a lot of hunters and stuff like that. Looking like I will be doing much the same today. Corey and Rick are washing the walls in the shop. It looks great. Barcley, Johny and Kevin are done guidind now and I think Barcley is going to hang out for a couple of days which is good. Our good buddy Joey also heads home today. It was a lot of fun having Joey around and I hate to see him go, but he has a big birthday party happening for him on Friday that he has to get home for. It is cold and I saw a few snow flakes fall this morning. To early for that. Lots of crop out yet to be harvested. I hope it gets nice out for the farmers that are not finished. Later. G kuyp out.

Oct.05/09 - I just finished looking back into my journal from last year at this time. As they say. Time flys. It was cool to go back and see what we were doing a year ago. I erased some of it, but then decided to leave a bunch of it on as I want to go back and read some more of it. Chad and Clay left us yesterday. Sad to see my two brothers from Nevada leave us. We are now equiped with 20 dozen fully flocked awesome looking decoys and I will be selling some of my old ones. Call me if you are interested to all of my local friends who join us on the Journal here. I went to Lloyd yesterday with Shelly to help her with the Grocerys. Poor girl is having bad back problems and I hope she gets better soon. I remember having a bad back from when I used to sit on a tractor for many hours each day and it is no fun at all. Since I dont spend that much time on a tractor any more, more time on a quad now which is way more fun, my back has felt awesome. The weather has really cooled down. We 3 days of hunters left and then just one group the last 1/2 of the week and then my old friend John Iverson will hunt a couple of days next week and is bringing up all our Salmon that we caught up there this summer. Hmmm, I better get the smoker warmed up. Getting back to Chad and Clay. We coyote hunted all day Friday and we called in two coyotes, but both would not give me a shot were there camera could have got on them. So we never shot a coyote. I am hoping that they both come back in Febuary and revenge will be upon them. Thanks for everything Chad. I love my new Fowl life Little man zink goose call. It is so awesome and I appreciate it a lot. Also thanks for the new bibs and jacket and all the other awesome gear and clothes that you left behind. I am spending some time in the office today. Garet had hockey tryouts starting tonight for the Rage team. He should do well. Meadow Lake AA is still calling to have him play up there. We will see what things look like tonight. I better get busy. Sheldon and Johny both have crews out goose hunting this morning. I have not heard from them on how it is going. Take care all and enjoy this funny joke. Grant

OH ya.... THANKS BRANDON..... You are awesome.

Oct.03/09 - Well here I sit at my computer having a hard time keeping my eyes open. Always happens after a good goose hunt and a good hot lunch right afterward. This morning I hunted with my son Ian and his good friend Mitch and our good friends Chad and Clay Belding and Rick Meacham. We shot in one of my pea fields and had about 100 out of a 1000 land in the spread before Chad hollered TAKE EM... It was awesome. We had a great shoot and I always enjoy hunting with Ian. There are a lot of geese around. The best I have ever seen it probably. So it has been limit shoot after limit shoot. I would say 80 percent of the crop around here is in the bin. The weather has really cooled down and is trying to give us some precipitation. Nice to have it cool down for the goose hunting. We have 3 bear hunters in this week. Corey Jenkins is back and he is taking care of them. He reported having a great season up in the North West Territories. Sure is good to have him back. I am in charge of a community fundraising event tonight. We are hosting a Texas Holdem Poker tournament in Paradise Hill. Should be fun. Then there is a dance and supper and silent auction. I am going to go have a quick nap. Later all. Grant

Sorry forgot to add that Brandon had to leave earlier in the week. He had to head  back north to his job as a tupperware salesman. BYE Brandon we will miss you. Don't worry we will put away all your decoys and clean your trailer up. Management at Buck PAradise would like to extend a big thank you to Kevin, Cory, Sheldon, John and Barcley for working hard to keep the camp rolling. Thank you Fellas.Brandon a special thank you to you for helping out when you were here as well.

Sept 25/09  - Crazy busy, crazy busy, crazy busy. I am still tired.... We are combining oats over at Maiers. Should be done today and not sure if I will get any more custom combine work as the weather has been HOT and the farmers are working hard and long hours to get it in the bin. A remarkable amount of harvesting has been done over the last week. THe hunting has been good and sometimes very tough. Being it is so hot and dry out the birds are really not that hungry. But oh my god is there birds in the area. It is as good as I have seen it in a long time. I hunted with Chad, Alex, Brandon this morning and there two cameraman Tyler and James. We knocked 25 greaters out this morning and easily could have shot 7 more for a limit, but unless there feet were out and they were committed to our spread we did not shoot. Great hunt, fun hunt and will make a awesome tv show for the Fowl Life with Chad Belding. Overall the hunts have been excellent even with no wind and hunting with just a t-shirt on. Record breaking temps have been recorded throughout Western Canada. It is just unreal. It is suppose to cool down some and this will make the birds hungy and we will be on them. I am going to finish combining today and then get mad at the coyotes... I got to go. Take care all... Grant

Sept 19/09 - I picked up Chad last night. Sure was good to see my brother from another mother. He is doing fine and is excited to be here. We had a good visit on the way home from Saskatoon last night. Long day for me. Up at 4:00 AM to go help Sheldon set up for geese. They limited out by the way and that was yesterday. I got home at about 3:00 AM so about a 23 hour day. Slept for about 4 this morning and back at her. I am heavy eyed though as I right this and it is only 2:17 PM. The itching is still itching..... I hate it. Shelly fixed me up a bath with oatmeal and baking soda. That really helped and then I lathered up with Aloe Vera. So far so good. UFC fights are on tonight. I have them rented out in my shop for the crew. Take care all I may go have a quick nap... Later. Grant

Sept 18/09 - Wow, I am sorry, but I have had really no time to get on here to update.... I know, I know..... Anyways I finished harvesting my peas last Saturday. That felt great. They ran 65 bushels to the acre. The best crop I have ever grown. It was awesome. Only problem is that pea dust it bad. I would blow off the combine every morning and get full of that fine pea dust. Sit on the combine all day covered in the pea dust and go to bed to tired to shower covered in pea dust and now I have a rash from hell all over my body. It got bad a couple of nights ago and I was only getting about 1 1/2 hours of sleep a night. That is not enough. It did not bother me much during the day when I was busy, but it drove me crazy at night when I would go to bed. Scratching till I bled sometimes..... So yesterday after I helped Sheldon set up for our new group I headed to Turtleford to the doctor and got some proper medication and I slept a lot better last night. I am still itchy but not as bad. Thanks Doc. But just thinking about it I am getting itchy..... So no more about that. The Goose and Duck hunting has been going awesome. There are so many birds in the area. I think mainly is because it is so dry in the west and we are in good shape for moisture in these parts. I spoke with a outfitter last night from Edmonton, Alberta and he was having to travel a long ways East which is toward us to get geese. Tomorrow we will be hunting a field 1 mile from my house. MY pea field.... I love it. It was loading up beautiful the past two nights. Barcleys group of guys have also been knocking limits everyday. It is as good as it ever has been. To bad I have openings next week. You are missing out if you are a waterfowler and are reading this. Well I got to go. I got to go to Paradise Hill, then to Meadow Lake and then to Saskatoon to pick up Mr.Chad Belding. He is coming in by himself a few days early before the rest of the Fowl Life team arrives. We will be hunting and filming for his awesome TV show The Fowl Life. Watch it you will love it. Take care all I got lots of miles to make yet today and it is already 2:00 PM. I have to be in Meadow before 5:00 PM and I still have to go do the pics of the last two days hunts and have a shower and then hit the road. Take care all. Shoot me a email to say Hi. Oh ya.... Deer hunts have been booking up pretty good this last week. People must be getting the itch.... Oh shit, i just said itch..... Good bye.... Grant

Sept 10/09 - Just about done 2/3 of my pea harvest. They are running great, I am thinking about 60 Bu per acre. 160 or so acres to go. Geese are landing on the harvested ones and I am excited to hunt them in the near future. We have to let them build up more though. So, I have been living on the combine. Get up, look for geese some, blow the combine off, grease it, wash windows, unload grain trucks all with the help of whom ever is around. Sheldon is off looking for a bear that one of his hunters Devon put a arrow through last night. Hope they find it. Of all 3 bear hunters all are seeing plenty of bears. Goose hunting has been awesome with limits coming in every day. I am a little tired as I usually quit combining around 9:30 as it gets tough after that and wont go through the combine very good. I know this from expierence and it is not fun unplugging the combine in the dark. But I better get going. You all take care and we will talk to you later. Grant. Brandon WILL be updating the website soon. I have had them pretty busy. By.

Sept 08/09 - Happy Birthday to my beautiful Mom. Love you! Well yesterday was our first day of waterfowl hunting. We have 4 hunters with us. Bob and Robert Namay, this is there 3rd trip up waterfowling with us and Bill Schagel and Devon David. I guided Bill way back before I was a outfitter and was guiding for another fella. We have became very good friends over the years and have hunted in Alaska together one time. The four of them headed out to a harvested pea field yesterday with guide Brandon Schreiber and knocked out a limit of greater honkers. A good way to start the 09 season. They are hunting the same field again as it was filled up last night. There are new birds coming into the area pretty steadily now and I exspect it a week we should have lots of fields to chose from. There are getting to be lots of peas harvested and the geese will head to those fields. I am just about done the first 160 acres that I am on. They are running very well and I am happy. I got on the phone last night at about 9:00 and called another farmer friend as he told me as soon as it gets dark you are done combining peas, well it was dark at about 8:30 and I called him and as I was talking to him, I plugged the thing up solid. He laughed at me and I deserved it. So I got a fun job ahead of me this morning. Hopefully Brandon and the boys have a good shoot this morning and we continue to do so during the week. Thanks to Melissa, Brandons girlfriend for doing the website pics up yesterday. She did a great job. I got to go unplug my combine. ARRRR. later...

Sept 06/09 - Got some combining done yesterday. Not a lot by the time I got the combine set the way I wanted to and all. But overall it went good. A few green tough peas on the outside round but as I got into the crop the better it looked. It was testing about 14.5 % moisture and dry for peas is 16%. So I got started anyways. Woke up this morning around 6:30 and jumped in my truck with a thermos of coffee and started looking for geese. Quite a few big honkers around. Found a field just north of home with about 150 in it and then headed south up on the hill and found another with about 300 on it. Brandon headed West yesterday and also found a couple of good fields. He and Johny and the girls were busy getting decoys loaded in trailers yesterday and getting things ready. John and Brandon were also busy with Garet and Ian cleaning bins and getting things ready for that also. I combined till about 9:00 last night and then shut her down as it was starting to chatter a bit so no use pushing it. Thought I would get a good start today, but it showered this morning. Piss me off. But if the sun comes out which it is suppose to and the wind keeps blowing, maybe sometime after lunch I will be able to fire up again. I will go clean up in the shop and get the combine ready when I am done writing on here. John and Brandon and there girls headed up to Goodsoil last night to go to Bro Deans B day party and Brandon and Melissa had a wedding to go to. Garet has a skate in Lloydminster this evening. Well, I am going to pray for sun, geese and no breakdowns on my combine and good hunting. I will talk to you all later. Peace out. Grant.

Sept 05/09 - Happy Birthday to my Brother Dean. He turns 40 today. I had my Birthday yesterday. I am going to try combining my peas today. I am excited to try them. They look like a pretty damn good crop. We have been working hard all week getting things done around here. 4 hunters coming in tomorrow. We will be ready. Brandon and John and I were all out spotting this morning and found some good fields that are ready. There are a few pea fields harvested and I exspect by the end of next week a lot of them will be taken off. Brandon and John are here helping me today. If my peas are tough we are heading up to Brother Deans this afternoon to help him celebrate his 40th. My sis in Law Jodi is also down from Calgary. Sheldon and Kevin had other committments today but will be back around tomorrow. I am so pumped about this time of the year. Check out the 2009 waterfowl gallery. I have some pics on there of us getting ready for the upcoming season. Enjoy and be ready for more to be coming on daily. We have 4 goose hunters coming in and 3 of them will be hunting bear in the evenings. Should be fun. Weather outlook is good so if these peas are dry hopefully in about a week I will have them in the bin. I got to go try combing. I still have openings for waterfowl. Call me on my cell I will have time to talk while I am combining. Take care all. Grant.

Aug 31/09 - Goose season is closing in. I have hunters coming in on the 6th. NOt many, so if you still want to come, please call me. I have 4 guys coming on on Sunday and they are doing a Bear/goose combo hunt. Sheldon and Kevin are out rebaiting today so it will be interesting to see how things are looking. Shelly and the boys and I were up at Green Lake over the weekend. The weather was beautiful and it was hot. Actually August has been our warmest and nicest month all summer. My peas are turning fast and if not by the weekend, I think they will be ready to harvest by next week forsure. They are all standing pretty nice at this time and the weather for the week sounds good. It would sure be nice to get them off before we get to busy with our waterfowl hunts. I have spent the morning in the office, emailing and calling hunters and trying to get them to come up this year, but it is tough. Johny Prosak is also coming into camp this afternoon to help get things in order and Brandon will be here Thursday or Friday. Barcley may show up on the weekend, we are not sure about that yet. Other than that, we spent all of last week cleaning up around the yard mowing grass. Fixed up my round baler that had been out of commision for the past two years so it ready to go. I will pull out my combine this afternoon I think and start going through it. I am excited to get out there and harvest that pea crop. It looks good and thank the good lord for that. Pics of geese and bears will soon be on the website. Keep an eye out for them. Take care all. Grant

                                                        

Recently, during a routine patrol, an RCMP patrolman parked down the street outside a Legion Hall just off the main Street at Estevan, Saskatchewan.

 
After last call, the officer observed a man leaving the Legion Hall. The gentleman was so intoxicated that he could barely walk. He then stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity and trying his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his car, which he fell into. 

He sat there for a few minutes and then threw a hook and line out the window and seemed to be trying to catch a fish.. A number of other
patrons paid no attention to  this crazy drunk as they left the bar and drove off.

Finally the drunk started the car, switched the wipers on and off (it was a fine, dry summer night) flicked the blinkers on and off a couple of times, honked the horn, and switched on the headlights.

He then pulled in the hook and line and moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained still for a few more minutes as some more of the  other patron vehicles left. At last, the parking lot was empty; he pulled out of the parking lot and started to
drive slowly down the road. 

The officer, having patiently waited all this time, now started up the patrol car, put on the flashing lights, and promptly pulled the
man over. He performed a breathalyzer test on the gentleman who cooperated fully, and to his amazement the breathalyzer indicated
no evidence of the man having consumed any  alcohol at all!
 

Dumbfounded, the officer said, 'I'll have to ask you to accompany me to Headquarters. This breathalyzer equipment must be broken."
"I doubt it," said the truly proud Saskie,"Tonight I'm the designated decoy."

Aug 17/09 - Sorry .... I know it has been a long time.... But. I guess I have been busy, doing a little work and well a lotta play. I just got back from a fishing trip with my two sons. We went up North to were my Dad built a cabin with some friends about 20 some years ago. It had been about 4 years since I had been there with my Dad and it was sure good to get there again. The cabin was in great shape with many improvements that have been done by a few good friends since I have been there. Dad willed his 1/2 share of the cabin to Dean and I. When we got there Garet and Ian were very impressed that such a nice facility could be found 8 hours north of home where there is really nothing but lakes, sand flies, Mosquitos and FISH. We took some friend with there sons along and we all had a great time. We fished what we call Lake 3 for a couple of days and then there was a lake that I always have wanted to fish and never did as there was about a 1/4 mile portage to do. Well I had 5 strong boys and 4 strong Dads and we decided to portage all 3 boats over. It took some work but it was well worth it. We took home our limit of Lake trout that afternoon and let lots go to. The boys had a blast and so did I. I am not sure if that lake had a name as there are hundreds of lakes up there so we renamed it Lens Lake. Brandon had portaged a boat in there a couple of years ago and made a nice trail which really helped out a lot. The boys learned out to fish, fillet fish, pack fish, smoke fish and we ate a lot of fish. They learned quite a bit on this trip. We cleaned up the cabin yesterday and I am quite fussy about how I leave things so it took us a good while to get it in the shape I wanted it to be. We got back to my enclosed skidoo trailer by the main road about 5 miles from the camp where left it as I did not want to bounce it down that old rough trail. We brought it along with 4 quads in it which helped us haul boats from lake to lake and we did not have to wreck our trucks while we were in there doing that. Any how, we get back to the trailer and a flat tire. We try to blow it up, but no go. The air compressor was broken. So we get the spare out which I brought two of to learn that the one spare was to big and had a different lugg pattern. So we were down to  no spare tires. We get about 80 miles and boom we are down a tire. We find another compressor in my Rons truck. It works and we fix up the tire we took off up by the camp. On the road again. 40 minutes later we are at Pine house as the boys needed a snack. Another low tire. The 2nd air compressor craps out on us so we are on the hunt for a air compressor. We found a good fellow who opened up the fire department shop and gives us air. We fix the tire and are on our way again. 70 more miles to Beauval. We stop about 10 miles out of Beauval as Ian has to have a whiz as he likes to call it and low and behold we have another low tire. We take it off and Ron and I run into Beauval find a fellow who was working out in his shop and he kindly lets us fix our tire there. Back to the truck we go. All is good and we are on pavement know. The gravel roads up there kill tires. I notice a cotter pin stuck in one of my truck tires. More worries as we carry on. It is dark know and we are about 1 hour from Green Lake. I am tired and so are the boys. Garet, Ian and Rick who is a good friend of our from Australlia decide to spend the night at Green Lake, being we had no spare tires left and it was dark. Ron and Neil and there boys carry on back to Paradise Hill. We all had a good sleep. Woke up to a beautiful morning and Rick and I enjoyed it with several cups of coffee. I called Shelly and everything was good at home so Rick and I decided to go try to catch a Lake Trout on Green Lake. They are in there, but I have never caught one. We tried it for 3 hours with no luck. But what a beautiful day to be on the Lake. Got back into the lodge. The boys had some pork chops cooked up for us. We ate them and headed home. We met brother Dean in Goodsoil were Rick jumped in with them as that is were he is staying. Good to get home and see Shelly. She missed us all, but I think she enjoyed her alone time for 5 days. I had a great time with my boys and I look forward to doing it next year. I still have to come on here and tell some storys of my Alaska fishing trip and I promise I will do that in the next week. I borrowed a few good storys from UFC fighter Matt Hughes website. I hope he does not mind. Matt will be hunting with us from Nov. 02-0 this year. I still have openings available at that time if you want to be in camp as the same week that Matt is. He is a great guy. Also Pat Reeve and Nicole Jones who have become like family in the last year will also be there with us. Will be a great week. Give me a call if you want in. Take care all. Grant

- Just got back from the lake. We were up at a lake about 40 miles north of home today. Just hanging with a few friends and took up some salmon and halibut up for supper. It was delicious. The weather was good for about 15 minutes after we got there, then it started to rain. Oh well, it was still a lot of fun. Bowers is on his way home from Kenai. I talked to him today and he sounded depressed. He did not want to leave. But he ended the last few days there with a few friends catching more reds and Kings. It has been good to be home. My crops (all peas) look awesome. I just hope that a hail storm does not come through and screw things up. I have never harvested peas before and I am excited about it, but it will be a good month plus before I will be able to get into them. All the crops are about 3 weeks behind, so hopefully we have a nice long dry fall so that everyone can get there crops in. There are good crops out there around this area. Tomorrow, Garet and Ian and few of our good friends are going to make the trek up to Pierceland up by where Mark and Carla live. I bought 1500 square hay bails up there for deer bait. I have 4 trucks with trailers heading up there and about 10 guys, so it shoud not take us to long I hope. Well I better hit the hay. Take care all!!! Grant.

July 29/09 - I am back. I was suppose to be back on the 25th, BUT, I just could not leave Bowers on that boat with a empty seat (2-3 actually) I had a great trip....I caught my first 45 lb King Salmon (Chinook) within 25 minutes of being on the river. I was right about Bowers wanting to fish as soon as we got there and we did. We fished till about 1:00 AM. I just got back home a couple of hours ago, I am tired. I will get on here tomorrow and give you a full report and try to get some pictures on here somewhere to share with you all. We caught a lot of fish. About 450 lbs of awesome Salmon. Mostly reds (Sockeyes). Later all. Grant

July 15/09 - I am in my office and I really should be packing for my fishing trip. I will get to it right after I am done on here... We leave this afternoon and fly out early tomorrow AM. We arrive in Kenia around 3:00 PM Alaska time. Not sure if we will try to get out to fish tomorrow night or not. Knowing Bowers, I would say Yes we will try to get a few hours in. That guys is crazy when it comes to fishing those Big King Salmon. It is fun. I spoke with Matt Hughes this morning. He is hunting down in Texas and having fun. He is coming up here on Nov.02 this year for another whitetail hunt. If you would like to hunt at Green Lake Nov.02-07 when Matt is going to be there, please give me a call. I have 5-6 spots still available. Matt is a great guy and a lot of fun to be around. Well, that is my sells pitch for the day. I will be back on July 25th. I will post pictures of the trip and through in some stories. I am sure that Brandon will fall out of the boat or something crazy like that. Take care all and if you need to call me. Call  my cell.               1-780-214-4638         1-780-214-4638. Or shoot my a email. My Black Berry will get it all. What would we do with out them. Later. Grant. GOING FISHING!!!!

July 12/09 - Another inch of rain last week here at the farm. It was a crappy week for Ians last level of swimming lessons but he passed and he and Garet are know done with swimming lessons unless they want to teach then they will have to continue on. The weekend was very nice though. Ian and Shelly came home on Friday after lessons and Garet and I stayed up there till Saturday evening. Barcley Fisher was up visiting his family and stopped in to see us. He came home with me on Saturday night and we rented the UFC 100 fights out in the shop, cooked deer sausage, watched the fights which I loved and had a good time. I had to get up at 6:00 AM this morning though as Shelly and the boys and I headed into Lloydminster to clean up garbage from the fair that went on there last week. There were about 20 or so people from Paradise Hill there and it took us about 3 hours. The community was there all week cleaning and we raised $5000.00 for our new community hall that we plan on building in the near future. It is going to cost a lot but every little bit helps. Then we came home and I jumped in my tractor and started harrowing my summerfallow until I got it a crap load of wire all wrapped up in the harrows. I came in and had a nap and went back out after supper and fixed it all up and harrowed till dark. I had Garet for his first time run a tractor and a rock picker. Most of the rocks were around a bush that we buried last fall and he got stuck in it, so I have to go pull it out in the morning. It was really cool farming with my son. I dont think it is something either one of them will want to make a career out of, but you never know. I bought this old tractor from a old friend of mine. It is a 4 wheel drive case 2670. The last time he used it two years ago it was pushing antifreeze through the over flow on it. So he parked it and never started it again. I bought it from him for $1000.00. I was hoping it would be something easy and cheap like a head gasket, but no... All three heads were cracked and the turbo was gone on it. I got it fixed by a friend of mine and I am not sure yet but I probably had to sink another $4-5000.00 into it. I used it today and it worked really good. Even so, where can you get a good used 4-wheel drive tractor for $5-6000.00 bucks. I hope it holds up, but it should for the little bit of work that I have here for it to do. Anyways Garet was in one tractor picking stones and I was harrowing in the other. It was cool. I am going back fishing to Alaska with Bowers, Brandon Schreiber, Barcley Fisher and Jason Mckenzie here on Wednesday. I will be gone for 10 days. I will blog about the trip when I get back or maybe find a computer when I get there and give a update. Seen some good bucks today. Horn growth seems to be excellent... I have been hearing good reports from several people around the area. Later. Grant.

July 07/09 - Hey everyone, I just came home from the lake for the day to take care of some office work. Bookings are starting to pick up. This makes me very happy. It is raining lightly outside today. The past few days have been nice and warm and things around this area are growing very nicely. You do not have to go very far west or east and things are very dry. We are very lucky and I am very thankful for that. Ian is working on finishing his last level of swimming lessons this week. Garet is enjoying finished being done with that and sleeping in in the mornings and just having fun at the lake. They do a lot of tubing and wake boarding. Poor Ian got the itch bad yesterday after swimming lessons. I thought the poor kid was going to crawl out of his skin. We applied, baby oil, vinegar and some benedryl and he felt better within a hour. But he was pissed about it at the time. The weather is suppose to clear up tomorrow and I hope the sun comes out so we can enjoy our week at the lake. Shelly has the week off work also so that is good. My good friend Stu Barthel and Brian Bielecki are also up there with there familys and we are planning to hit a little trout hole good here in the next couple of days. So that is were I am at. I have been seeing some good horn growth on some of the bucks that I have been fortunate enough to see. So it is looking to be a good season in my books. Corey Jenkins is still helping me out on the farm. He is heading to NWT here in 2 weeks and I will not see my friend until mid september. Hey tonight is Chads The Fowl Life second show coming on wild tv. I loved the last one. If you saw it, email me your thoughts. Look on the main page for the times it will be viewing on your outdoor channels. I am heading back to the lake. TROUT beware.... Enjoy the little story below. By all. Grant.