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Stephen is Currently Reading

Stephen Wallace is currently reading

The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

by James Islington (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 26, 2026 03:03PM

“When it came to effectiveness on multiple species of game birds, Farley was a “Jack of all Trades.” In his three seasons, | harvested valley quail, scaled quail, pheasants, ruffed grouse, blue grouse, Hungarian partridge, chukar partridge, sage grouse, and sharptail grouse over his staunch points. Had I been able to shoot straight, I would have added a lesser prairie chicken in Kansas to the list. Farley also pointed some bobwhites in Kansas, but I had no chance to shoot.”
― Andrew M. Wayment, Idaho Upland Days: Reflections on Bird Dogs, Banner Days, and Other Roadside Revelations

tags: game-birds, hunting, hunting-dogs

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“The smell of woodsmoke because you were reading in front of a cozily crackling fire; the smell of lavender laundry soap from the lambswool blanket tucked around your knees; the smell of a cat because in a perfect library you’d have a cat purring at your feet as you read the best book in the world in front of a crackling fire with tea and chocolate chip cookies on the arm of your perfect reading chair.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

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“I've been keeping a hunting diary since 1985 and wish I had started sooner. I frequently go back into my scribbled entries, and relive outings I've had, some alone and others with partners. Some of those partners, human and canine, are now among the departed, though theit memories are preserved in my diary entries. My diary holds many memories; days of golden aspens and blue skies, a dog’s first grouse, pheasants in a snowstorm. Many days, however, more than I like to admit, I summed up, simply, as, “A long walk.”
― Paul F. Vang, Sweeter Than Candy - A Hunter's Journal

tags: diary, hunting, journal

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“What a miraculous thing a book was, when you stopped to think about it: whole worlds springing to life from nothing more than squiggles on a page.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

tags: books, reading

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“While I have great respect for the pointing breeds, I remain a hopeless afficionado of the Labrador retriever. I love Labs; don’t ask me to explain. We just seem to understand each other and to approach the world with a fundamentally similar set of priorities, an admission with which certain co-workers and an ex-wife would no doubt agree. Because I make it a point to live in places where I can hunt a lot, my kennel has to be productive. It also has to be versatile, since any given day here on the prairie might provide the opportunity to hunt everything from Huns to geese. Sure, I could have Labs and more traditional upland bird dogs, but every place in the kennel occupied by something other than a Lab would be. well, one less Lab in my life.”
― E. Donnall Thomas Jr., Fool Hen Blues: Retrievers & Shotguns and the American West

tags: hunting-dogs, labrador-retriever

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