Comments | moderately_mad: Sunday's Putterings (including Fri & Sat)

moderately_mad

Sunday's Putterings (including Fri & Sat)

Sep 10, 2006 18:17

Topics contained herein:
Autumn. A chicken swap. My son’s scary-happy life. An anticipated date. And waaay too many tasks as yet undone.

( today's: weather, mood, gratitudes & accomplishments )

mission 101, memorable events, my yards & gardens, my chickens, gardens, recipes, about m--, about ch--, my other animals, phenology, putterings, school / education, medical notes

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moderately_mad September 11 2006, 05:46:07 UTC

Me too! Im not sure I can get a bow for myself (an adult sized bow) at a price as reasonable as his was. I might shoot (tee-hee) for that in the spring so we can do it together.

poets_hand September 11 2006, 00:59:41 UTC

Ch- sounds like such an amazing kid. I will feel like I've done my job right if I raise a kid as cool as Ch-.

poets_hand September 11 2006, 00:59:56 UTC

uh...2 kids.

moderately_mad September 11 2006, 05:48:29 UTC

'Made me laugh :D

I do that all the time -- let's just be safe and agree that we both want the very best for, and from, both of our children ... it's just hard to keep their separate interests and personalities straight.

pinkroo September 11 2006, 06:43:24 UTC

that shepherd's pie sounds goooood!

moderately_mad September 11 2006, 06:52:07 UTC

It was killer ... just right for the weather we've been having. I'm thinking about making a crock-pot roast every week just so I can use the meat for various soups, sandwiches and pies.

spade0014 September 11 2006, 09:37:04 UTC

He thinks he's a hero in training? Hunh... Maybe I should have gotten him City of Heroes instead.

You got him a compound eh? I liked my recurve pretty well, and I'd offer to help him learn a little, but I think compound bows work differently?

moderately_mad September 12 2006, 02:37:43 UTC

They didn't even have any recurve bows as far as I could tell. I think a lot of it is the same -- the biggest difference I can see is that this requires less strength and propels the arrows faster. It still takes some significant effort to pull the string back but it sort of locks into a resting mode when fully drawn ... much easier to aim. The string cuts into his fingers though (as he's pulling it into position) so he has to wear a rather cool looking glove-thing ... which makes it really hard to hold the arrow and to release smoothly.

In any case, he'd love to have you help him. We need to get several bales of hay however and that will take several trips to the feed store unless we can get someone with a truck to come out :)

spade0014 September 12 2006, 03:24:58 UTC

I would suggest snagging one of those foam targets with the bull's eye on it to place in front of a wall of bales of straw. That, or the paper targets you can tack TO a bale of straw.

jehannamama September 11 2006, 20:21:45 UTC

There is no way that you can, um... lop off their heads yourself?

I learned to do this simply because I wanted our meat to die calmly, with thankfulness and appreciation and affection, without trauma and adrenaline racing around their veins, and fed well and naturally, without chemicals or hormones, (except to me, of course), and I learned to do it well, eventually. You can sort of hypnotize chickens before you lop their heads off.

Of course, I still can not manage to kill the rabbits, personally, but the chickens were quite easy for me.

I don't pluck them, either. I just skin and gut them after hanging them for a few hours.

moderately_mad September 12 2006, 03:16:43 UTC

Now see you've nailed it ( ... )