You folks can keep it! I called the Great Plains and front range of the Rockies home for the better part of 15 years, but my 80 yr. old bones will just have to put up with where I'm at. I believe I'll mow the grass today.
Fully agree with the use of tung oil. I've used it for years when building entertainment centers, furniture of all types, and non-food prep walnut countertops, always without any stain.
HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS -Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers-
That perches in the soul-
And sings the tune without the words-
And never stops-at all-
And sweetest - in the gale - is heard-
And sore must be the storm-
That could abash the little bird-
That kept so many...
We've had a small pack of three in the neighborhood for several years and just this year I got a pic of what I assume is the alpha female with two juveniles in a friend's back yard. She feeds deer in her back yard and usually gets one on camera 3 times a week and occasionally two might be...
That's correct; tongue, jaw muscles and brains, a real delicacy. I disagree with you though on the part about squirrel tasting like chicken; it tastes like squirrel. Cooked to tender in a pressure cooker then breaded and fried. Makes the best gravy you ever ate. For the above reason I no longer...
You did the best thing a friend could do, ease his passing. I suspect he was at peace when he went; I hope to be at peace with my mortality when my time comes, and have a friend or two to miss me and grieve a bit as well.
Hog killing time was long a tradition in the South but with the rare exceptions, it has nearly disappeared from the social calendar. That's what it became, not only a means of subsistence but also a social event.
We had one every winter which usually involved several families of kinfolk and...