The New Hobbit Hole

[g'nad]

Bow season starts Monday

yer killin' me...

[Overtaxed]

You could sit on our back patio and pick 'em off as they come to eat my garden.

[g'nad]

You could sit on our back patio and pick 'em off as they come to eat my garden.

will yer neighbors squeel?...

[Overtaxed]

will yer neighbors squeel?...

Neighbors hate the deer worse than I do! [looks right....looks left] No one squeeled when the neighbor shot that woodpecker that was beating up on everyone's houses

[g'nad]

hmmmm... you got a positive backstop... so my arrows won't go thru a neighbors house?...

[RosieCotton]

No one squeeled when the neighbor shot that woodpecker that was beating up on everyone's houses

We had one of those, too, when I was growing up...t'would bang on everyone's drain pipes at five AM. Our closest neighbor is a sharp shooting ex-Marine. We all supported his actions...

[HairOfTheDog]

That special New York session of congress is starting. They did a prayer, and the pledge of allegiance, and sang the national anthem sung by a soloist. The soloist was joined by all the members of congress about halfway through... I don't know if that was planned, it seemed spontaneous, because it started quietly and increased as it went. I was about to post, with due respect for all the members, that it was really nice. I felt all warm inside.

Then as they sat down, the camera moved to Hillary, who had the most sarcastic smirk on her face.

So with all due respect to all members but one, thanks folks, that was nice!

[g'nad]

Thanks for the heads up...about Hldabeast...it figures...

Sorry I missed it...

[HairOfTheDog]

Oh now I have had a triple hit of Wrangle, Schumer, and Hildebeast taking turns reading a proclamation of praise for the citizens of NY... I am irrepairably harmed by this sneak attack while I was feeling so vulnerable.

[Overtaxed]

... you got a positive backstop... so my arrows won't go thru a neighbors house?...

Behind the garden there's a field of kudzu and a stand of pine trees before you get to the neighbor's yard. I can post a picture of the site when I get home. BTW...this garden's in Wake Co, not Chatham.

[Sam Cree]

I'd like to bow hunt, if I manage to retire to the Virginia hills as planned I'll probably take it up.

I came to hunting late in life, mainly because I wanted the venison. However I found an unexpected mysticism and spirituality in it. Something to do with spending hours sitting still in the freezing cold, watching the sun rise and the woods animals wake up, then if you're lucky, making a kill...the feelings are hard to describe.

I don't think the people I hunt with necessarily see it that way, though there's no doubt that it means alot to them, though, even dominates their lives during the fall.

Lately I've been using my black powder rifle more, not so much for the challenge as for the opportunity to be in the woods when they are not so crowded. I like all the smoke, of course, but cleaning the things is another matter.

I once wrote a little essay on my feelings about deer hunting, it may be a little long to post here, though. I'll go look it up and see what I think.

[g'nad]

I am irrepairably harmed by this sneak attack while I was feeling so vulnerable.

the fargin' bastidges...cold-cockin' my buddy Hair...

[g'nad]

How many do you want dead?...

[g'nad]

Something to do with spending hours sitting still in the freezing cold, watching the sun rise and the woods animals wake up, then if you're lucky, making a kill...the feelings are hard to describe.

I'm with yuh...somethin' about sunrise in the forest...tryin' to blend in so the fauna is actin' natural... just awesome...the adrenaline rush when you see the deer...anticipatin'...tryin not to move or breath...gettin set...holdin'...holdin'....

when you shoot, that's when the fun stops and the work begins...love that venison...

[g'nad]

when I was growing up...t'would bang on everyone's drain pipes at five AM

My buddy Jeff (also a jarhead) shot a woodpecker that was bangin' on his house...it dropped down in the 2nd story raingutter...he didn't think anything of it till the next day, when they heard a ruckus and bangin' on the house...seems two crows stumbled across the woodpecker and were fighting over it as they ate it...

[g'nad]

funkle?...

[HairOfTheDog]

Yeah - I think that was a funkle!.... It stinks, doesn't it, when you are left talkin' and don't notice that the audience has left?

[g'nad]

It stinks, doesn't it, when you are left talkin' and don't notice that the audience has left?

I'm used to it...I have that effect on people...you know...my sunny disposition and animal magnetism...

[HairOfTheDog]

And perhaps imagery of crows ripping up a woodpecker carcass... it is breakfast time here!

[HairOfTheDog]

I for one, was over posting on the latest BADJOE rant thread. That one should have been a funkle.