Maybe I'm about to be back at it !!

Some health issues, finances and a move to another house forced a sell out for me. I know how it goes. Real dog men don't sell out. But sometimes when it comes down to the nitty gritty.......well that's how it goes. I was new in the game and went through a thousand Craigslist HOG DOGS that was 250 bucks and guaranteed jam up and jelly tight. Well I learned my lesson on that real quick. Especially with the ammo shortage that was going on back then. I finally got 2 bmc dogs and a bulldog that I was happy with. A female I had got from a buddy, and a male I bought as a pup. I put as much effort into him from day one as I possibly could and man he sure started turning it on early. I had started finding and catching a few hogs here and there, the ole chest started sticking out a little further and then crap hit the fan.....long story short I took a man's word on an owner finance deal on our little farm and we were 4.5 years into a 5 year payoff when the bank foreclosed. We paid the man......the man didn't pay the bank....that's life I reckon. Anyway I sold the dogs after all that and some health issues on my end. But I sold them to someone I knew (so I thought) under the agreement that I could get first option to buy if they were ever sold again. Well several days ago my phone rings. I said hello......the guy says are you Shane? I said yes sir. He said I bought a couple of black mouth dogs about a month ago and your name is on the papers, I just wanted to ask a few questions. I said go for it. He proceeds to ask me if I had any more dogs just like that boomer dog and before I could say no was already saying how he was ready to make an offer that would be well worth my time......blah blah blah. I said sir I don't have anything here but an old chocolate lab that ain't good for nothing but fetching sticks and licking his balls. He said he hadn't had that boomer dog for a month and he had already been on 20 something hogs and found 18 of them by his self. That's real good for around here. He also said how he didn't even like the black mouth dogs but would take 20 just like this one.....All this sure made me feel good seeing as I'm the one that trained that dog, and the man doing the bragging had been hunting hogs with dogs almost as long as I've been alive.....but I was pretty bummed out that I never even heard that the dogs was for sale until somebody I don't even know tracked me down to brag on them. Anyway.....we may be about to pull the trigger on a little cabin on a few acres that we will own instead of rent and my wife actually came to me and said babe let's get some more hog dogs, I really miss doing that. Well that was it. She lit the fire again. I been reading on here about y'alls stories just to scratch the itch a little but with a little luck I'm gonna start trying to rebuild a crew again. Probably just start from pups unless I see some dogs that I know about already. So it will be a while regardless. But I enjoy working some pups just as much as the rest of it. So we shall see. Long winded post but I'm bored, and it's to cold to go fishing.