Most of the people around here who have a few cattle did not slaughter this fall, so they don’t have beef to barter or sell-they were saving that steer or cow in case Hillary won, so they wouldn’t have to buy another at prices that were sure to go up-so I’ll buy beef at the locker plant-but one of my neighbors who raises hogs-the smaller and leaner ones that healthy food types like me enjoy-made a good deal with me and another neighbor for meat when he slaughters in a week or two, so there will be pork chops on the grill...
I haven’t had a place to hunt in 3 years-since the rancher who let a couple of us neighbors hunt on his 30 acres bought a bigger place in far West Texas-it is not possible I’ll find a place before the season closes in January, so I’m venisonless unless one of the guys I work with has a successful hunt and will trade for some fresh herbs, late veggies or a few loaves of homemade bread.
I was going to walk down to the river and try to get a catfish over the weekend, but it started raining Sat morning and it is still raining-maybe next weekend-the river bottom here is rocky, so the catfish don’t have a muddy taste, which is nice.
Hard times or not, life is still good when you don’t have to depend on a city to survive, even living alone-and that is a good thing
Now I remember why we didn’t raise a hog this year - we’re coming to TX to hunt hog in January!
Beau ‘won’ a Silent Auction package deal. He and I are driving down from The Frozen Tundra and picking up a friend that’s flying into San Antonio for the long weekend. I’m going to stay there at the most luxurious spa/casino I can find (LOL!) and Beau and his friend are driving another 2 hours south to hunt.
Beau owes me. In the past 2 years I’ve prepped and sold 2 homes for him, sold MY farm and moved to his (bigger) farm, and I’ve been taking care of all of his animals, PLUS raising a litter of pups for him since he retired at the end of August...and promptly left for Bear, Elk (CO), Elk (WY), Elk (CO) and Deer hunting. AND Coyote hunting in NE between Christmas and New Years. Things just fell that way this year; he got tags all over the place and they all fell into THIS Fall & Winter after a 10-year wait on some of them. His Black Bear was 534#!
Again, Life Is Good. :)