New York Hillbilly

I think there are far more who simply will not ever own up to being wrong, or admit they were duped into, too stupid, too filled with hate, and/or wanting to be one of the cool crowd, that they brought us to this.

I was curious about the pigeon, because I had an uncle who talked about dove hunting and eating their breast meat. I wasn't sure if pigeon might be similar. I tried shooting pigeons once with a buddy many years ago, around his corn cribs. I couldn't hit a damned thing. lol. That's why I was so impressed with how many you got. Must be a pretty good shot!

Wow...impressive number of pigeons. Do you eat them?

With it so cold yesterday; it seemed a good day to stay in, thaw venison, and make jerky this weekend. So, today I cut up the thawed venison, boned out a 22 pound turkey, and as the wife canned the turkey, and several pounds of beef, I made my marinade. I have two batches of venison soaking now, about 12 pounds raw. She also made a couple loaves of cranberry bread, and a really good new bread we came up with using our canned sweet potatoes. I'll start drying the venison this evening.

Does anyone else here other than me, remember the scene from F-Troop, "It is balloon"? If not, check it out on YouTube.

Wife says it was -13 at 11:30 last night. Not sure what it was when we got up. Just know it was freaking COLD! My two dogs wouldn't go more than a few feet from the porch to relieve themselves before running right back to the door to come inside.

So...is that the balloon falling from the sky over Billings? Last I heard it was over Kansas.

Almost there!

It's a very good point. Could be a decoy. And, that is the point, that there is no telling what these devious bastards are up too. But you can bet it's nothing good! What's further; as I posted right here from the start of this nightmare, don't forget those who voted for this shit show. They own it!

Rather than shoot it down and play into their hands, or risk releasing whatever payload it may be carrying; better idea is to float up and tether as many weather balloons as possible to it, with the face of Trump 2024 and the American flag on them, and the words "Hold On I'm Coming!" That would make a mockery of their scare tactic in the eyes of the world, and really piss them off. : )

You know what they say about the wind. It blows! : )

Cool! In all my years of hunting I have never seen such a thing for squirrels.

A good hound getting it done by himself in that fresh powder. One hunter + one real rabbit hound + one gun =1 good day and countless good memories! Thanks for sharing the video!

"Oh...my bad! Then just give me an ice cream cone."

Beautiful job on that cat. Looks alive!

With it finally sunny, I did take my dogs for a walk to the creek to stretch out legs. I worry it's too tough for my little old Westie, whereas the younger, big pup just plows through. The little girl stays behind me hopping from one boot tract to the next. lol In the morning I plan to take a long hike up the hill with the .22 to do a little squirrel hunting, which is something I have not done in many, many years.

I have had Chaga tea a few times. We have a small house on 6 acres in Alaska and lots of Birch trees on our property. We got interested in it after trying locally produced Birch syrup. Was not crazy about the Birch syrup. I'll stick to Maple! Chaga tea was actually pretty good. But, I don't know if I got health benefits or not.

Frog Toggs is all the rain gear we wore fishing on the Kenai Peninsula.

If he ever sneezed it would blow his brains out!

Best briar bibs and jacket I ever owned were my Wicks. Basically lived in them all rabbit season when I was running my beagles. Still have them somewhere in a box out in the garage. Any chance he's connected to the makers of that line? If I remember right they went out of business, and when my Wicks finally did get too beat up, my wife ordered for Christmas a similar set from a company I think is called Mule. Those are also out in the garage because I never got to use them.

Ran my beagles there on hare years ago. Had to shovel stairs into the snow banks along the road to climb up and over to go hunt. Also, remember watching a guy standing on his porch roof shoveling snow, and throwing it "up" and onto the snow pile. lol

Must be a Biden voter.

Love the attention to detail. Great looking building!

I agree, and I hope I'm still anything at 98! lol

Love it! Me and my wife have been talking about getting a couple beef cows for years now. But with so much else going on have never been able to actually act on it. Other than a summer working on my uncles daily farm as a young teen and all that comes with it, my knowledge or experience keeping and raising cows is extremely limited. Over the past couple years we have been getting more serious about building up our "homestead". The garden getting bigger each year, and canning really taking off. I finished building a chicken coop, and have a nice building for a goat shed, so they were to be next. And, now that you have outted yourself as our resident "cowboy" : ) I hope I may call upon you for your advice from time to time if/when we act on the cow adventure.