It's the end of the year as we know it ...

I don't do resolutions. I do however resolve to have a better garden this year as well as a new 23 quart pressure cooker. And to not instigate any armed insurrections against the corrupt government; although, participation is a wholly different topic...

Shopping

This evening Ross and I went out to Best Buy, he was going to spend birthday and Christmas money on a new flat panel monitor. We settled on a LG 20" wide screen. After that we hit Manards, right next door for a new lock set for the shop back door. The handle came right off in my hand today. I had a extra key made for the ice house door too...

Working inside the shanty

I pushed the shanty up to and just inside the overhead door so I can open the door and work inside





I've put in benches and shelves...I'll be putting in a couple of fold down work benches too.

Change

I really need a change of scenery, both physically and mentally, more of the latter. I've a feeling of traveling an endless road, not sure if I'm moving forward or the landscape is passing me by.

Fishing

New ice house: update

I was able to get the new shanty out of the shop. Still needs a door and trimmings...I've been hitting the gravel pit taking 10 or 15 fish at a trip, I hate cleaning more than that at once...

12/26 The door is on and I've got the heater running...still much to do.

Christmas Day

Nothing but coal here...Maybe I'll do better at the folks place... Pouring rain here, better than the ice we where getting last night...

Me Too !!!

Ice fishing

Hit the gravel pit pond first thing this morning. This pond is small and produces well at first and gets fished out quickly. I was out for a couple hours and managed a 1/2 limit. I made a short video clip while I was out there...

I've been neglecting this space lately, due to many factors...Busy, busy, busy...all week each night I've been butchering that deer and that task is complete. Ive got the next two weeks off from work and have a list of to do's a mile long : )

Strange how things happen

This morning I was all about being done hunting for the year...And I was really, but as luck would have it, I shot a deer this morning. When hunting with a muzzle loader its practice to fire the loaded round when putting the weapon into storage, it possible to pull the breech plug and remove the powder and bullet, but I would rather just fire the round off...

All that said, I was going to fire the loaded round but thought I would first walk to the edge of my folks yard, which drops off abruptly down it the old creek bed...I'm doing this because I know deer bed down in this area, today was one of those days...On my hands and knees creeping around at the ridge, just out of sight of the two deer I saw, I put myself in position for a shot...Only to have the deer I was watching move into heavy brush and out of the shooting lane despite my calling to it... just then the second deer stands and walks into the lane, it was now or never...The shot wasn't great, but good enough, though the elbow and lung...The deer ran about 20 meters and expired...

Personal notes

I'm conceding defeat to the deer at this point, as a benevolent loser this season...I passed up shots I could have taken, Oh well...

My sights are now focused of the upcoming ice fishing season, I've got a shanty to finish and plans to retrofit another.

Storm of the century

I'm home early today, just for the opposite reason sometimes I'm not home until 20:00...This part of Michigan is supposed to be getting a "big winter storm" I'm not holding my breath. The media in these parts are famous for playing up the winter weather...

Climavangelist!

Doug Giles, father of Hanna, the now famous ACORN hooker is on a roll here Lots of laughs in this one, well that is if you haven't been drinking the global warming Koolaid...Maybe you have, it's not too late to say; hey, I was lied to...

LMAO

Gone Hunting

I'm off today; off of work, even though I've already had numerous calls from the office. And off to the forest for a weekend of hunting, muzzle loader season begins today.

The ‘science’ of global warming

Mark Steyn writes this

And you should read it !

Yes, this is an American

Read this

Injured

Even typing is painful. I pulled a shoulder muscle lifting this morning and now I'm really beginning to feel it. The ibuprofen has brought it down from Samurai sword cutting my arm off to extreme charlie horse...right now I'm not sure what's better