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Originally Posted by AllDogBoots  It's incredible sometimes hearing the other side's of stories. I consider myself a fairly considerate person and never once even thought about this. What an eye opener. I'm sorry if I hurt you. |
oh it's okay. you didn't really bother me much. i know it's a very unusal thing for most people, but it's really just life for us. i am so proud of my dad and his work. he's a wonderful and loving man. i just had to at least let people know that taxidermy isn't really as awful as they portray it on TV. it's really quite interesting and cool. for instance i have a beautiful antler lamp my dad made me. the antlers were from sheds that someone found in the woods as deer naturally shed their antlers once a year. they make beautiful and interesting lamps and chandeliers. my dad also mounted the trout that we caught (dh and I) when we got engaged at the springs during our trout fishing trip. he used rock that he secretly had brought back via the MO dept. of conservation agents to his shop and had the stones put on the base of the display under the fish. it's such a beautiful memory of that time and trip and the fish are handpainted and as lovely as the day we caught them. memory forever preserved.
a lot of the deer he does are memories for other people. first deer they got sitting in a tree stand next to grandpa Joe as a 11yr old boy. or the biggest deer i ever got and ever will get and when asked I can tell you the whole story from sitting down at the stand at 5am until i finally saw him right before the sun went down standing there snorting in the winter cold. i mean these are memories for people. they are beautiful things that mark a moment in the hunter's lives. so i guess to us it's not weird but very very neat.
sorry to keep rambling, but like you i like to see both sides of all stories and try to keep my mind open to all aspects of life.