Doc

It's especially neat to see them walking along and then all of a sudden get some burst of playfulness and start hopping and bouncing around sometimes jumping sideways. What gets into their head is anybody's guess .... lol.

I sprayed all the fruit trees with Sevin yesterday. I thought the Japanese Beetles were not going to show up this year. In fact, other years they were done before July. But there they were munching on the peach trees and I saw some on the apple trees. So hopefully they're done now.

Ha-ha .... welcome aboard. They are all welcome to join the small game hunters, turkey hunters and hikers and bikers and all the other people that are already out there. If people want to add scouting for gun season to the gang, it probably won't be any different than it is now. Those hunters that want to scout, already are. I don't see where it would be any different. Frankly, I suspect that many of the small game hunters are out there just to see what the deer herd looks like and where some good places to stand on opening day might be. It's nothing new and likely won't add any significant activity that isn't already there.

Also, when you get this registration stuff all cleared up, don't forget the NYS inspection for your trailer.

You really can't win on these things. It usually turns out to be just a matter of luck. The reviews and such are kind of a waste of time because you never know whether the authors took descent care of the product, or understood the directions for maintenance and operation. Name brand means nothing anymore because those companies that have a known track record for quality have been bought and sold so many times that company name is meaningless. There are some material choices and manufacturing processes that can suggest quality in design, but other than that you are at the mercy of "luck".

Great video. The coughing was funny. Why is it that as soon as something (deer, turkey or whatever) appears on the scene, that tickle develops in your throat and keeps up until you have to do something to relieve it. I have had that happen more than once .... lol.

That's why I couldn't live in the city or suburbs. I don't want to see, hear, or smell neighbors or any of their critters or off-spring.

Amazingly enough though, when rabbit season opens up, they will seem to be all gone. I'm not sure how that works, but we must have a heck of a predator population. It's too bad, because I do love a good rabbit dinner. Here's something you might consider: Welded wire around the garden and then two strands of electric fence .... One along the top to discourage the deer, and one 3" off the ground for squirrels, woodchucks, rabbits, chipmunks, etc. It works flawlessly. In fact I wouldn't be able to even have a garden without it. Before I figured it all out, between the deer, rabbits and woodchucks I used to get nearly nothing out of the garden. Our garden is close enough to the barn that the fencer is located inside and the wire runs out to the garden fence. No power in the vicinity, you might think about a solar unit.

The status is still the same as it was. I'm not sure why it goes back to the Senate before heading off to the Governor's desk for signature. I guess that's just the process. Of course as soon as it was sent to senate (2nd time) they went on recess, and I don't know if they are back and functioning yet. There sure is a lot of B.S. steps involved, but anyway, below is what the bill status page still has posted: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATUS: S3929 NOZZOLIO Same as A 5574 Kolb Environmental Conservation Law TITLE....Authorizes hunting in the county of Ontario until October 1, 2015 02/27/13 REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION 03/12/13 1ST REPORT CAL.184 03/13/13 2ND REPORT CAL. 03/14/13 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 04/23/13 PASSED SENATE 04/23/13 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY 04/24/13 referred to environmental conservation 06/19/13 substituted for a5574 06/19/13 ordered to third reading rules cal.422 06/19/13 passed assembly 06/19/13 returned to senate -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By the way, it is not an 8N (DEC) law. It Is for Ontario County.

Not only that, but a lot of the best hunting lands aren't even owned by farmers anymore. Down our way farming is a dying activity and almost all of the land has long ago been taken out of production. There really aren't any chores to do.

I don't think anybody was really paying all that much attention to the details of all those invasive little clauses that were being added. Now some of the actual practices are being experienced. I think the other thing is that as much as we like to say that we are not going to let terrorists dictate our way of life, we are finding that the words sound so much better than the practicalities. This idea of balancing rights with procedures of safety from foreign attack has really taken on new meaning since 911. We really have to wrestle with the way we handle that. There are always going to be compromises that we aren't all that comfortable making. Either that or we are going to have to get used to living in bombed out neighborhoods like some of the other countries.

My yard has been declared a "Deer Hostile Zone". I put up with a bit of shrub damage over the winter when food was scarce, but it appears that they have a taste for decorative plantings around the yard even when there is plentiful sources of food everywhere else. So now instead of simply enjoying seeing deer around the house, I am giving them the boot every time I see them......lol. Next deer season, areas in close to the house will no longer be a sanctuary for them. They have to go! ... fawns and all.

Interesting view of our president that probably is shared by many more people inside and outside the U.S. than we would like to imagine. I do appreciate the right of any of those people to view our leaders and our policies in any way that it all happens to strike them and to voice their opposition to the way they perceive that we may impact their national situations. I think this woman was doing exactly that. I may not agree with much of what she had to say, but there certainly was a ring of truth in her comments about the media fawning over every little thing that the Obamas do. That is something that you don't have to go to a foreign country to appreciate. When I see our own press coverage of the Obamas, I get exactly the same impressions ..... Especially after the years of venomous coverage of both of the Bush administrations. I do wish that the video had included the responses instead of just the presentation of one side of the discussion.

Probably the most optimum chance for injury is the presence of a greenhorn on a farm. It's bad enough for those that do that kind of work day in and day out. There is a lot of equipment there designed to cut things up and munch them into little pieces .... lol. Not only that, but we used to have a few critters that would really like to stomp some unsuspecting person into a tiny puddle. Sometimes there are places to work that really are better suited to those that live there

Perfect weather for epidemics of jungle rot. Anybody having any body parts falling off yet?

You know, I haven't even seen a Weaver scope in years. It certainly is an old established name in the world of scopes if that means anything.

The problem is that occasionally I get the urge to get a new car, but this thing just won't give me the justification to do it. Right now it has cost $7.26 per day to keep it around. That includes the original cost, every service and repair and the taxes on each item. Every cent that I have put into the thing except gas and insurance. That's damn cheap transportation. When you think about it, it costs about $20,000 to $30,000+ to buy a new car these days. You can put a heck of a lot of dollars worth of repairs into this car before the total comes anywhere near that. Plus, even though Hondas hold their value like crazy, there is not a whole lot that anyone would give me on an 11 year old car of any make. I have been thinking that my Grand-daughter who is in College (50 miles away) could sure use a replacement for that rickety old hunk of junk that she is driving. So I am seriously considering buying a new one and giving the old one to her. While it doesn't make sense in terms of dollars, there seems to be other good reasons to do it.

Every year I try to figure out what will screw up the garden. This year It probably will be "rot" with all this cold and wet weather. What a crappy summer. Every time I want to do something outside, they are threatening rain. I'm getting sick of it. Pretty soon it will be snowing and we will all wonder where the heck the summer went.

2002 Civic LX 135,000 miles and probably good for another 11 years .... lol. 2009 CRV LX (I got 29 miles per gallon on a recent trip to Troy)

Huh???? Politics? .... Term Limits? .... Gery-mandering? ..... Republican party? ..... Demographic studies? Holy crap!!! that sure did cover some ground. Couldn't we get a little abortion and evil Soviet empire stirred in too ..... lol.

Some guys really get off on that sort of thing since it is a novelty to them. But I had my fill of farm work as a kid and a young adult. It's a great life, but not for someone who is getting on in years. I wonder what the potential liabilities are for the farmer if some guy gets hurt doing the "work for hunt access" thing.

Not a lot here to disagree with. But I do think you are missing my point about revisions not ending with the crossbow. It is just another precedent setting addition that is sure to be followed by more in the future.

Well, I have to admit that bow hunting would be a very different activity if the bow hunter density ever became anything like current gun season hunter density. And for sure that situation would definitely turn the quality of the hunt into crap. But I don't really worry about it getting to that extreme (I could be wrong). But my biggest fear is that just as the compound served as a precedent for the crossbow, the crossbow will serve as the precedent for whatever contraption comes next on the parade. I also worry about people eventually questioning why we have the privilege of special seasons. I already see muzzle loaders eyeballing chunks of the early bow season. There are others that are also questioning why we are allowed to take the cream of the hunting season crop. As our success rates continue to climb, and technology continues to add fuel to the fire, we may be providing ammo to their arguments. We have arrogantly believed that we can add whatever we want to bow seasons and still maintain the advantages won over in years past. Well, it just might happen that we are in for a rude shock one of these days. We may learn in a very uncomfortable way that we are indeed in the minority in the hunting community.

Yes and eventually in the name of progress, we will begin to accept weapons that don't even look like a bow. And people will continue to flood into the sport and we will continue to pat ourselves on the back because of it. The real funny thing is that while we think we are being so successful and counting all the numbers of people who are flooding into bow seasons, there has to be a growing suspicion that we are simply transferring people from gun seasons into bow seasons. Over-all hunter numbers continue to slide even as the bow hunting ranks grow. The success that we are bragging about is merely hunter re-distribution. The closer our equipment emulates guns, and the more we continue to squeeze the challenge and personal accomplishment out of the sport, the more redistribution that will take place. Is that making bow seasons better or more successful? Is that progress? Unfortunately, each one of these pieces of "progress" removes the very purpose of separating the bows out of the regular gun hunting seasons in the first place. We said that we needed special seasons and bag limits to compensate for the difficulty of our sport. But, we keep getting closer and closer to the quality, attitudes, and equipment of the gun seasons that we said we had to separate ourselves from. We call that progress and we call that success. Was bow hunting really meant to be ruled by technology? I suppose that comes with answers that vary by generation also. Sure we're all suckers for the gadgets and go-fasters, but I draw lines and set boundaries. It just seems logical when you are talking about an activity rooted in tradition and history. When have we gone too far? I know we all have our own idea of where those limits should be drawn, but the plain practical truth is that none of us has the ability to stop this technology craze once it has begun. Bow season was initially set up to provide a time for use of some pretty primitive equipment. That notion has been pretty much eliminated when the compound came along. We are doing our best to eliminate the reasons that we have a "special" season. The compound was a "baby step" and even with all the pulleys and cables, the actual procedure and disciplines and principles of use remained exactly the same. But what the compound did do was to set the precedents that served as enablers for the next generation of contraption. Each generation of bastardization of the bow becomes more extreme and sets the way for the next pollutant coming after it. So yes we are "progressing" toward combining bow hunting back in with gun hunting both in technology and attitudes. Is that really progress? Not in a good direction as far as I am concerned. We are getting to the point where the next generation of technological progress will simply be to go back and pick up a rifle....lol. That's kind of where the "end-game" of all this "progress" is heading anyway.

If you are leaning toward Toyota, take a look at the RAV4. It really was a toss-up between that and the CRV when I bought mine. They are almost identical. Either one is super reliable and very popular.