Our version of retirement: Living a childhood dream

So, some folks bought the old rotten house cattycorner of our place.
They're refurbing (gutting) it
Hats off to them
Very nice people
They had to remove all the pigeon nests with baby pigeons from the attic

I think the pigeons are pissed
Never seen so many on that roof and the power lines

They may be regrouping, plotting

The movie The Birds comes to mind

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There isn't a spot not occupied
They may very well be a guerilla task force flown up from Capistrano
 
@ Gary,,, Pigeons or mourning doves?

We have several mourning doves here,,most of them fly to someplace warmer.

On the sports car forum I visit ,, there are pictures of group of hunters out west hunting the doves.
Have the dead birds laid out in front of them.
Not one or two but lots of them!

I'm a firm believer if you shoot it ,, you clean it,, then eat it .Or freeze it.

I had to field dress my first deer .
We do the hard job of processing our deer at home.

From some of the dove pictures ,,it appears that someone else cleans them.🙃:eek:
 

We had mourning doves up at the cabin
At first, their coos were kind of a nice thing
Months later I was eyeballing the shotgun

These could very well be mourning doves
Occasionally I hear that familiar (owllike) sound

Yeah, you kill, you gut, hang, skin, can, freeze, smoke, eat

Wife and I are quite the team on this
 
Sliverfox said:
Was a chore to take care of more than one deer.
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Yeah
Lotsa wannabe folks buy guns
Buy expensive rigs
Buy top of the line binos
Outfit themselves with LL Bean outfits
Get permits and such
Drive around logging roads
'Hunt'

Heh, when they do somehow down one, they immediately loose their fantasy

Those hunting shows seldom show the fun part of field dressing and going elbow deep into the bloody part of gutting and quartering
 
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One of the local guys in our area, made really good life for himself.

He now goes on hunting on guided big game hunts.
His brother would send me pictures .
One was of a huge bison he killed.
Later here comes picture of 800 pounds of bison meat.

All I could say was, hope that feeds a tribe.

Think he got the hint that I didn't care for pictures of some dead animal that may not feed any one.
 
Another thing I really don't care for is dead stuffed critters .

Hubby had stuffed squirrel & wood duck,,,,,oopps some how the 'dog' got them.

Now the only stuffed thing is a deer head with a big ' rack'.
Its too high for the dog to get. :unsure:

I did ask how the antlers were stuck on it.
In case one of us gets a bigger set of antlers,,,just unscrew the old ones.:cautious:
 
Heh, there were so many mulies up at the cabin, it really wasn't 'hunting'
It was more like eeny meeny miny moe

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I've never hunted for sport
Just for food

Put away the Remington and carry the Nikon now

I wasted the last deer tag
Just can no longer drop those wonderful beings
hungry or not
 
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I'm with you on hunting no longer.

We had 7 deer in last night before dark.
The apple trees are dropping apples.
I smashed some & put in front of game camera.

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Notice how white the antlers are.
Have watched these two develop those antlers,, all Summer.

Was watching a pair of younger buck lock antlers , the other night.

Interesting to be able to tell the doe herds apart.
Another doe that isn't 'family' gets chased.
 
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While I was playing away in the shop, my lady was canning
aaaand, made a plate of dried kale

Heh, this stuff is NOT filling
Much like eating cotton candy
'cept it tastes a whole bunch like bacon!

Dried Kale
a bit of oil ('rub all over the leaves)
put on a cookie sheet
sprinkle salt, pepper, garlic
and parmesan cheese
in oven at 170°F 'til crunchy' (approx an hour or so)

I'm planning on having it with some eggs tomorrow morn
(I'm hoping at least the eggs are real)

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Tommy said:
Strange, and a bit spooky. I wonder what the attraction is to that particular location.
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Well, they've been the occupants of that old house for a very long time.
(scroll back a bit)
Now that it's getting refurbed, they seem a tad displaced

Tommy said:
they look like they might be doves ... maybe?
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Yes, good call
Doves or pigeons (I don't know the dif)
 
Built another tiny abode

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But

The big event was shoe gooing my bill fold

I love my little super thin bifold holder of cards

it's been with me a very long time

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It began to fray on the outer rim

Glued and clamped it

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This morn it was healed

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That jovial pic of me is coupled with a little love note of inspiration inside to return to its rightful owner
.......in the extremely rare event someone's fingers are as light as their brain

Anyway

it's happy

I'm happy
 
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So, I'm sittin' in the truck, waiting for my lady to finish grocery shopping

Watching people

See this bent over ol' gal
Struggling to take her grocery bags from her walker to her back seat

I'm on it

She sez 'Where were you two minutes ago when I was putting away the heavy ones?'

Gotta luv it
 
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