the day the names were released online, ben received many, many phone calls full of explicit language from extremely envious guys on the other end of the line. he laughed it up with every single one of them. even i was getting phone calls, yes, yes, that's my ben that received the tag.
it's been nearly a year ago now, (that the names were posted) so this has been something he's looked forward to and planned all year. i'm so happy and so proud of him - all the guys, really - and all his hard work to make this happen. nobody wants to hunt in delta junction at negative 40 degrees, wind blowing, piercing through all your layers... but... wait, they DO want to, they're crazy enough, man enough and God bless them for it!
ben and sean
ben and jerry
they left on a friday morning and returned on a wednesday afternoon. it wouldn't matter if it was only a long weekend, i would still have missed ben dearly. dylan, too. we were happy to welcome the boys home. {ok, so dylan was really more excited to see sean, but it had been a while since his move out of state...}
ben was eager to show off his new trophy, calling me from the shop. with the valley winds blowing (shocker, i know) they quickly unloaded the haul of meat and horns and, well, yuck. i'm so pregnant. this stuff never bothers me, and yet, i could smell it a mile away. my heightened sense of smell is ridiculous these days...
but look - he's so proud.
as he should be.
that's bison heart, in the bottom right picture.
"mama, i luf sean."
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