2010 hunting day 5

 Well... what can I say about my hunting today ~ besides the fact that the deer have a really REALLY good chance of getting through the season with me around.

I didn't even go out again today.  I've become quite the pitiful hunter.

My excuses:  because it's was just too far of a walk to get there ...
It was snowing like crazy ...
My 4 wheeler is froze up ... the back wheels won't turn ... something is screwed up with the choke ...
The 4 wheeler is out of gas ...
I would have to carry out more junk mail to start my fire ~ hopefully non fire retardant ...
and Sam had my gun ... hunting with another group  ... and I didn't feel like using his gun that I'm not comfortable with.

So... I stayed home and made pies, 2 pumpkin, an apple and a grasshopper pie ( no it's not really made of grasshoppers ~ it's made with creme de menthe liquor ~ like the grasshopper after dinner drink ). Although, when my kids were little and my Grandloves were little I used to tell them this big elaborate story about going out in the woods and digging grasshoppers out of a stump from their hibernation and grinding them up in the blender to make a pie.

  I also got a squash baked up and seasoned up to taste just like sweet potatoes and in a casserole dish to heat up tomorrow.  I also made up a scrumptious cranberry sauce (the cranberries are straight from the cranberry bog ~ can't get much fresher than that) and a creamy orange jello mold.  In the morning I'll be making some dinner rolls for tomorrow nights meal and doing the turkey and all the trimmings.  Hopefully, I'll be able to get out in the woods between noon and five.  Slim is working the night shift tonight at the paper mill; but will be off tomorrow ~ so he can sleep in the morning until noon then watch the turkey for me. 

The ambulance and fire department went flying by the house this afternoon.  I guess a hunting cabin just down the road from us on County Road F burnt to the ground.  No one was hurt.  Of course, every time my Mom hears an ambulance she thinks it's me ... and always calls; but this time I beat her to the phone and called her ~ and asked if she was okay... which I already knew she was because the ambulance had already gone past my house.   She just said she was heading for the phone when it started to ring.  She's so predictable. lol  But she already knew it wasn't me ~ because my brother, who is on the fire department just happened to be at her place when the fire call came in.  We look out for each other :)

I wish everybody a wonderful Thanksgiving !!

Until next time...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel