It's that time

[Wyoming53]

Originally Posted by isabel

53...just wait for your boy to get there he can take off the boots. Your daughter might throw them at yeah:)

Hope your boy has the horse sense to split that wood or bring a splitter with him.

But you are right about how to get someone else to do it. My hubby will put off my honey do list until I start doing it myself then he can't stand how I'm doing it...so he takes over:)

Hope your backs okay. Don't listen to George...he still thinks he is young too:)

Izzy

I went out and split some more wood. No, you are wrong. I am not accident prone. I'm just challenged. hahaha Believe it or not, I slept in my chair last night. Couldn't get my boots off so there was no reason to go to bed. Had a good stiff drink and just kicked back in the chair. haha

[PDXnative]

Originally Posted by Wyoming53

Just 4 or 5. Figuring the beer that everybody else brings, we shouldn't run out.

We go beer drinking and somebody always brings a rifle so we can shoot something.

Everybody has to bring their own beer. Kind of a ritual.

"Hold my beer and watch this"

And you wonder why hunters always end up shooting each other....

[Wyody]

PDX, not to worry.
In Wyoming, beer is water ... matter of fact, forgive me for not capitalizing Beer (been in Oregon a while now).
A Wyoming hunter on beer is not a problem. Some of them Utah boys can be a problem but it's mostly the California boys on beer that have given this "art-form" a bad name.
In Wyoming, better on the beer than off. Safer that way. Besides, they all fall down fast anyway once they start chasing anything edible.

[PDXnative]

Beer is to Oregon as Wine is to France. We like our beer here, but 23 cases is still A LOT OF BEER!!!!!

[Wyoming53]

Hell, I drank a case just thinking about huntng.

[PDXnative]

24 beers?

[Wyoming53]

yeah.

[Wyoming53]

Sun up is coming. Got logs on the fire and it's crackling. It's 3:30. Rifle, check. Ammo, check. 23 cases of beer, check. I'm set.

[Wyody]

Okay, now that he's gone, let's talk about 53. Real JuiceHead, eh? Out hunting. Loaded for "Broad-side-of-the-Barn". Hope that bull is in a good mood - hate to seen 'im turn on 53 - fella might not be up to speed from his latest go-'rounds. Ahem ... this is when the opportunistic males hit the bars - looking and hoping for those "I only cheat once in a lifetime" hunting-widows.
Ciao

[isabel]

Well...53 must have a laptop because he is logged on:) Enjoy your hunting guy. Winter is close to making you house bound.

Izzy

[Wyody]

I just don't figure 53 as the laptop type-o-guy.
Perhaps they didn't spy any quick-elk and maybe got themselves what we in Wyoming call a "Slow Elk" already and called it good. More comfortable that way.
I think the rest of y'all know our "Slow Elk" as cows.

[Wyoming53]

Hell, I got my cow at 7 this morning. No sense in wasting time. Can't figure out why she was wearing a brand. Oh well, meat is meat.

[Wyoming53]

And yes, I do have a lap top. But I haven't fired it up in months. haha

[Wyody]

So, is that a "Yeah" or "Nay" on actually pulling down a big ol' Elk?
Should be some way to make use of that big Cat that's running around there - he/she probably knows where the Wapiti are hanging.

Laptop? You? Really? How ....... un ... Wyoming ... ish!

[Wyoming53]

Thats a yeah.

[Wyody]

Well, Hot-Diggity-Doo-Right!!! That's Cool!
In Wyoming, that means the grandkids get new shoes maybe even before Christmas 'cause the meat's laid in and surely there'll be a couple of serviceable deer come along to vary the diet a little. Maybe a few more fish for the freezer while you can, as well. Also gives the more craft-oriented something to do with the long, oil-lamp nights coming all together to make one feel every bit like they were sitting in a cave, a warm igloo - all snowed in and things howling outside the window - Raise the canvas flap and grab another frosty cold-one - that's what the glove on the table by the window is for. Can tell it's snowing too just by what's on your glove when you bring it back in - without ever even looking outside - and sit and work that hide, whittle on those teeth and bones to make tools to work the leather with and bind the handles for the season, pull the Ivory and make a wish ...
... Makes one wish they would've walked the high-desert a little more last month to pick the Prickly-Pear blooms ... hey, maybe Panterro can send you some giant ones from Texas(?) ...
Just the very idea, 53 - is cool. Congratulations!!
Gut-shot?

[Wyoming53]

Heart shot. I shoot open sights. But wasn't too hard. About 60 yards.

[Wyody]

Good shot!
I prefer open sights unless I can go prone - best scope in the world doesn't help if the spidey-hairs is twitchin' all over the beast.
I recently got gifted some elk-meat. It's old ... but I think I'll pull it out and eat some red-meat soon - and in your honor.
And for the pagan-at-heart; the Creator proudly gives us these animals so that they can proudly give themselves to us so that we can figure out how to proudly give of ourselves next.

[Wyoming53]

I would say, if your going to eat red meat, game would be the best. No fat, unless it's a bear. haha

[Wyoming53]

For supper it was roasted (on open fire) back strap, bar-b-q'd baked beans, fried tators and some collards. (always gotta have a little green in every meal) Chased it down with Lemonaid. What'd you have Ody?

[Wyody]

Dub, that sounds like a fine meal.
Well, my Doc called me up yesterday after I posted and asked me to come in. Of course, I was all up for that so I went in - coughed up my co-pay right there on the co-pay-person's desk and then "went on back" to find out he only called me in so he could kick my a**. So, I didn't have the Elk last night - kind of plan to have it over the weekend - but if Doc finds out he's probably gonna make a house-call next time he wants to kick my a**.
So, anyhow, for dinner last night we nuked a small vegetarian pizza - with only some of the stuff on it that I shouldn't eat - and tried to make that last. Man, it was small. Finished out the evening devouring a half-bag of some kind of nasty ol' crackers made for people who wear bike-shorts and actually fit into them - like, they're too skinny for Spandex!!
Tonight, in lieu of Elk (oh, my mouth is watering), I loosely plan to have ... I should write a book on this ... get Bela Lugosi to star in the movie ... Chicken Patties! Chicken patties with no chicken. With no dairy or egg. With no Soy. main ingredient? Myto-protein. (Good God, it comes from fungus!)
(there's a fungus amongus). Not only that, it's a little too high in calories!!
I'm not sure I'll like it. Since I went to eating weeds, the only meat I have taste for any more, so far, is fish. The other stuff tastes all wrong - beef, pok, cheekin. Even had some fake-turkey the other .... oh, I see I'm taking off on your thread here. Sorry. Elk! The "other" Red meat. Hoe into it, by God!!

[MyAzi]

Originally Posted by Wyoming53

Izzy, can I join you with that cup of herbal? I'll take hot chocolate. Don't need to talk. Just set there and share the silence. Maybe pet the dog becaue we all know that the dog never gets enough attention. Maybe shoot the cat cause cats aren't worth a darn. Dogs have friends, cats have staff. haha

Cats have staff because they are smarter than dogs...

Outhouse???? I must have been gone a long time because I sure missed something.

[Wyoming53]

Originally Posted by MyAzi

Cats have staff because they are smarter than dogs...

Outhouse???? I must have been gone a long time because I sure missed something.

What'd ya miss?

[Wyody]

Gad, I hope she didn't miss the outhouse - I used to hate that on the two-story models.

[Wyoming53]

Wyody, you were using the wrong one!!!

[Wyoming53]

I'm getting there.....

I have 4 or 5 different wood piles going. Yesterday, I was just finishing up with the wood when my friend showed up with a pickup and trailer. The last picture show's what he dropped off.

[Wyody]

Happy for ya, Fitty. An Elk AND wood in. Can't beat that fer sure. 'Grats!

[Wyoming53]

Last night for supper, Antelope. Tonight was pork chops. Tomorrow, deer steak. Saving my pheasants till thanksgiving.

[isabel]

I have never eaten elk, or pheasants. I have had deer. But they must of cooked it wrong because it tasted really gamey. Does pheasant have to be cooked in a certain way? We have lots of wild turkey around here. In fact I have to have the kids chase them out of the neighbors veggie garden. They are elderly and the turkeys come in their yard by the dozens to eat up the garden.

Buying a Butter Ball for our gang usually a 24 pounder. If I can find it.

Izzy

[isabel]

Do you stuff your bird? We have a local saugage company called "Lockeford Saugage" pretty well known locally. I buy their Apple saugage and use it in my stuffing.

Izzy