i've been very productive this week and our weather has been brilliant with temps high 60s and NO wind. makes me happy ( Read more... )

While sitting in a ground blind waiting for turkeys that never showed up, I saw wood ducks. I did like a *triple* take - there was something odd about seeing a duck fly into a tree. There were two males and a female. The males were beautifully marked, we could see them very clearly and they never seemed to sense our presence. Pretty neat ( Read more... )

i was having a pretty decent day in SPITE of the bloody wind until I came home and saw that my neighbor's house was on fire.  it was totally engulfed in flames with huge plumes of black smoke.
we're in the 'county', which means my neighbor is a half a mile away, but still.

it's CHRISTMAS for petes sake,  NO BAD STUFF at Christmas says I.

~sigh~ one ( Read more... )

holy moly it's cold!!! the thermometer is around -15 this morning.  the sun is coming out but we are still to have highs only in the single digits.  eeks!
i'd like to go get the paper, but 100 yard or so walk isn't very appealing at the moment.  i'll wait a bit.  today, me thinks, is a good day to make buckeyes and make some gifty breads.

ok, so for ( Read more... )

Sooo, yesterday I shot a buffalo, er, bison.  Shot it with an old cowboy rifle, a .375 level action - a blown out 30-30 basically.  Put a good shot on it, he dropped in a heap without so much as a qwiver or a twitch.
I helped skin it, too.  Kept the skin since it was so neat - dropped it off at the taxidermist to have it tanned.  8 months or so from ( Read more... )

I *love* this time of year ( Read more... )

Well it looks like the new study is a 'go'. I'll go down to Denver sometime early October for baseline tests, scans and another biopsy. BAH ( Read more... )

The March that I know and loathe is here in all of it's miserable glory.  I *knew* those 50 degree temps wouldn't last, but I still got the batteries cahrged and back in the 4-wheeler and my bike.  Wishful thinking.  I ran the quad around a bit, but didn't get the bike to the car wash like I had hoped.  With the weather that is here for a while, I ( Read more... )

Feeling MUCH better - over the weekend was certainly a couch potato, but yesterday even got myself back on the treadclimber.  Amazingly, I didn't gain any weight.  This kills me to admit, but I actually felt spongy from my lack of working out.  WHAT has happened to me?

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Everything going very well for John D and Tom in Richmond.  Sounds like the ( Read more... )

There are not enough severe profane expletives to express how SICK I am of this winter.  We have had 60 mf-ing mile per hour winds for this makes the THIRD day.  Our barn door blew off yesterday, a huge chunk of shingles are gone.  Yet we can't get on the roof to repair it before the next snow hits.  I've got all the animals penned up in the barn ( Read more... )