Posted on 05/11/2008 8:20:25 AM PDT by Daffynition
Your version is more romantic than the one cited...I like it.;)
right between the eyes ;)
So far I’ve got them pretty skittish. If I open the window they just take right off. I guess they didn’t like their ammonia baths. :))
That’s good to know. Thanks.
Geez, I wish people would give me venison like that.
My family isn’t into hunting so we depend on what we’re given.
Here you are, able and willing to do it on your own and you’re showered with it. NO FAIR. >:(
Where are you at? We SHARE! :-)
NY STATE. Not the city.
I see you’re in NC. :(
Thanks anyway.
Rats! If you move down this way, let me know! We not only “share”, but have been known to skin, cut, and pack for people too. :-)
I have a sister who lives in SC. I can keep that in mind next time I visit her, whenever that may be.
Your version is more romantic....
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Hmmm...I went to your link and got some schooling. My mistake. Maybe my story is related to starlings. I’ll have to research it when I have time. I’ll send you a link if I am successful.
Aha! Found it! My recollection was a little faulty; it was the starling, and it was a group and not one guy that introduced it.
from http://www.klarahobza.com/work/2003/
In 1890, Eugene Schieffelin and the Acclimation Society of North America decided to bring all the birds mentioned in Shakespeares plays to the USA from Britain. Among them were 60 European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris), because Shakespeare had mentioned them in Henry IV: Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but Mortimer (Part I, Act 1, Scene 3).
probably the same winn-dixie mentality...has to be done in a butchershop to be 'safe' to eat...
My uncle was a butcher, his store was very clean, if bloody counters and knives saws grinders etc can be considered 'clean' ...lolololol
Anyhow thats one minor resentment that I still have, NOT being raised dressing meat, at this point Im willin to learn, but its a cumbersome process for those not used to it...[my first deer, 2 yrs ago took hoooouuuuurrrrs to bone out]
mom, do you have the 'cleaning' skills to offer local hunters? you could prolly trade bulk cleanin for most of the meat less tenderloins...[Quite a few around here that leave whole deer in the field for the buzzards, less the best, easy to grab meat...sickening waste]...or do as my bud and contact game warden and collect car/poacher stock...
it all eats just the same...
No, no animal cleaning skills in our family.
I was raised pretty much a city girl. I’ve been transplanted to a SMALL town in Upstate NY where there are more cows and guns than people and I love it.
My kids are very interested in learning to hunt and I have talked to several people I know about hunting and guns but am not getting much help or information. I guess having been raised with it, they don’t get that some people don’t automatically have these skills and need to learn.
Learning the language of country folks and patience has been the biggest help for me...that and they see the monumental effort in rennovation on our old farmhouse, so they probably figure that Im not out to make a buck or 'use' em like most carpetbaggers...
usually for me, the old timers have more in time/wisdom that theyre willing to give away...any local rod/reel clubs or gunstores???
I honestly found more willingness to let me into the culture from 'AA' friends and church fellowship than most of the younger farmers, gotta be a trust thing...
find something youre good at that is interesting to others, then trade info...???
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