Oh Canada

Tawny drove up to Markham Ontario to visit for our birthdays. She got to meet all my new friends I've meet since I've been here. They gave her a fit at the border asking all kind of odd questions, I guess if had a burka or was Chinese it would have been fine, but we couldn't have those damn Americans coming up and spending money. Anyway she got to go up to Kirkfield 2 hrs north to my buddy Biffs trailer and the campground. I went up there before and had a great time playing the harp with the guitar players around the campfire. So I thought she would love it. It's like one big family up there and had another campfire jam session, with Joe on guitar and me on harp and dulcimer, which they had never seen or heard before. Cool cultural integration, who would of thought. Plus Tauwny brought a case of "Not your Fathers Rootbeer" and some venison jerky. The jerky and 6% rootbeer that is beer, but tastes just like rootbeer disappeared fast. What a fun time and a bunch of nice people. She really got a kick out of Enos and has Inuit wife Mary from Newfoundland. Enos talks really fast with thick accent which got harder and harder to understand as the night went on. Rootbeer I'd guess. Learning all the Canadian stuff too Eh, like poteen 50 different kinds of fries with brown gravy on top.Or 50$ cases of Coors light, known as "Toofour"And of course Eh after everything,Eh. Oh yeah now I'm rooting for the Blue Jays and learning hockey. Oh Canada

 

Trail cams and Weddings

Recently my niece got married at Brown County State Park. A beautiful ceremony on a steamy September Day. All the brothers were there which is always good. We laughed, sweated and danced. My trailcam set up under my treestand has been producing some interesting photos. From some nice bucks to our cat nose with our semitame deer "Baby". She is the perfect live decoy. She also had twins this year. Archery season comes in a couple weeks and want to try out my new crossbow. Tawny and I  are still reeling from Bub's passing the house just ain't the same. I keep forgetting I don't a skillet cleaner anymore. Anyway this is last picture of Bub. R.I.P my friend

Bub dog

My best pal Bub dog died today. I consider myself fortunate to have had a long and fun life with him. He traveled all over the US with me until about 6 months ago when it was just too hard. He touched a lot of people and will be sorely missed. I was glad to have been home the last 5 days to spend our final time together. Even took him on one last ride on the Ranger checking trail cams. There is one empty bed that will never filled and a couch that is now open

. Goodbye my dear friend. I Love you.

Spring has sprung

What a spring. First off the only other company in the world that does what we do, bought us out. So a lot of head chopping and reorganizing is going on, but so far I've been spared. With that our Cincinnati  job is on hold so it was off to Elko, Nv for me. While I was gone a big flood came and destroyed the dock, so now I got to reconfigure that project again. Elko was nice as always, went down to the Hastings cutoff on the California trail, and picked up the big rock on side of the trail. Went I think of all the pioneers on the trail that looked at that same rock I just had to take it home. Got some projects done also. Made a new leather shirt, and a serape out of an antique Hudson Bay blanket I got at the Otway auction. Traded some venison summer sausage for an elk antler that I made a shifter knob for the Ranger, and eagle knife, and put the rest on the fence with the rest of the antlers. Even got see my first wild horses, Got home just in time for turkey season. I played with the same tom for 4 days where I shot at that one last year. Pretty sure it was the same bird, only smarter. He made a real chump out of me, even on the last day when he did everything a turkey isn't supposed to do. Be silent, cross a creek, up a vertical bank and then crawl under a barbed wire fence. We I spotted him staring at me 25yds away the jig was up. Garden's planted and just hanging in Indy in limbo until I get my next assignment. Plus a 5' rattlesnake skin that I mounted on old Otway covered bridge board

Macon Bacon

Second annual hog with boys a work has happened again. This time we went to Macon, Georgia. The trip last year was a lot of fun and this was no exception. Even better was brother Rob came along. The first night we saw no action, but it finally picked up Saturday afternoon. I was first to draw blood with a 125lb meat hog, the little brother out does me with an incredible 100yd shot thru the brush, with Dad's old 30-30, then Bruce with a 200lb solid hog and Chris followed up with a nice 100lb meat hog. So Chris got the little hog award again, Bruce the biggest, Rob the best shot, and me the best passed out picture award. Which was Bruce's fault for he had a new bottle of Jim Beam Black that had to be emptied, because everyone knows you can't have an open bottle liquor in the truck. The only downside is we didn't get an pictures of Bruce and Chris and our outfitter has yet to send us there pictures, we really pisses me off. To the point of not going back. Good times, good stories, good hunting with good friends, it DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT!

A New Year

The holidays have come and passed. Bub celebrated his 15th birthday on New Years Day. He's gone totally deaf and doing this twisted thing, almost like MS or something. Vets not real sure, but he' still getting around so we'll just our old friend as comfortable as possible. Tawny got a new t-shirt and a Griswold nickel plated dutch oven, She got me the latest Family Guy dvd and than new fangled Craftsman ratchet. Got to visit with all my brothers, dear friends Shelia and Sam,and Ivan and Vivian. And still missed some people, there just doesn't seem to have enough time sometimes. Jeff even came down and stayed a week.So its off, auction season is in full swing. Something we really enjoy, the hunt. Speaking of that got a 1902 sausage stuffer last auction and will be needing it, as a Georgia hog hunt is coming up in Feb, Turkey season in April, Tawny and I to Colorado ATV riding in June, Lake Erie walleye in July, and a possible September Maine bear hunt with Scotty. Got a full calendar and I like it. Plenty of time to rest in the grave.