TheBanyanTree: New Job

[Cecil]

At 6:31 AM -0400 4/21/04, Sheri Baity wrote:
>A couple of months ago, I was asked to submit a bio to Kolpin Outdoors.
>There was a field staff position that had just opened up on the East coast.
>
>So with the wonderful and outstanding expert advise from so many of you, my
>bio was finished and off in the mail it went.  I recently got my videos
>copied from my seminar that I did at the new Cabela's store in Hamburg
>Pennsylvania, so I thought I would send a copy of that as well to him.
>
>It has been about a month of not really knowing.  I had a verbal "It's a
>done deal" through someone that I know, but still wasn't getting my hopes
>up.  As much as I trusted this friend, I was afraid to believe or trust
>until I saw something in writing.
>
>That all changed yesterday.  I've been busy in this nightmare of finding new
>car insurance and fire insurance for a home that I own for the last two
>weeks.  It has been a trip through H*ll and back.  I was so danged tired
>around 11 yesterday morning and decided to click the answering machine on
>and just try and breath for about an hour to relax and regroup when the
>phone rang.
>
>Well, so much for the answering machine, I picked it up anyway.  She acted
>like she knew me forever as she went on to give me my dates and details for
>my first gig!!!!!!!!!!!  YUP, I'm now a Field Staff for Lohman calls who is
>a company under Kolpin Outdoors!
>
>All the years I've been hunting and writing for various outdoor magazines, I
>never in a million years even thought or indulged in the idea that a hunting
>company would pick me up.  Not even when I was asked to submit a bio.  Well,
>ye of little faith finally came to the realization after my heart stopped
>beating like a racing horse and the nervous jitters seized that I guess I'm
>not as bad as I thought I was.
>
>All the years of battling negativity of a woman trying to play in a mens
>arena has finally taken me places.  I know I'm still going to have to fight
>negative comments and such, but this time, I feel like I have finally been
>validated for my accomplishments and struggles.  I feel liberated.  I feel
>like I can hold my head up strong now instead of trying to melt into a group
>of people while trying to gain information and share info as well hoping not
>to be seen.
>
>I will be representing Lohman calls at the Gander Mountain new store opening
>in Fredricksburg, VA on June 25-27th if anyone wants to come on by.
>
>Just thought I'd share for the day.
>
>Crow Woman


HOT ZIGGETY, DOG ZIGGETY, BOOM! as Perry Como used to sing.

Makes me happy as a 'skeeter in a nudist colony. I'm tempted to jump 
into my new camper and head out for Pantsilvonia. One of my remaining 
ambitions is to go on that hunt with you that we keep talking about.

Hard to believe that someone so important actually knows who I am. 
(You still know me, don't you?) You reckon it would help me to get my 
novel published if I mention that I know you?

All kidding aside, maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to pay you a visit 
after Gene retires in July.

Do I need a formal invitation from one of your secretaries? (Okay, 
maybe I'm still ribbing you a little.)

Speaking of Cabela's and Lohman Calls, I've been ordering scads of 
fishin' stuff from Cabela's for years, and I've used dying rabbit 
calls to call up coyotes and horned owls out in the Mojave Desert. 
One night I was in the back of a pickup and calling with the rabbit 
call. A big horned owl came and hovered about ten feet above me.

Cecil, hoping