Neanderpundit

is a Puma White Hunter. Not mine, I don’t have a picture of it here.

Mine was misplaced a while back, I had it in my car for the club’s African Match for a while, and when Partner bought a couple switchblades at the last gun show with Sambar Stag handles, I thought about it and looked in the gun cabinet where it wasn’t. It distressed me to say the least. So I did some digging turning up jack, and in the end, I found it laying on top of the gun cabinet, where apparently I put it against the moment when I would open the damned door and put it back.

My dumb ass.

Anyway, it’s a relief to have it back now, and i love the heft and shape of it, a beautiful knife well made and with a long history of use. I myself took it to Africa and used it to dress kudu, bushbuck, impala and lechwe. it’s done deer here. I hope I can go back to Africa with it someday. I need to organize my life.

High tension lines cross the tri-state just at Alsip. Each morning, there are birds perched on only one of the wires, and only directly above the roadbed. It finally dawned on me why. Theyre getting stoned off car and truck exhaust.

DUUUUUDE!!!!!!

The water is stil going.
Looking back at photographs from last year I can see why we did not have this issue then, though there were colder nights. The pumphouse was covered in snow.

Now, it’s bare and exposed. I need to get the damned old well pump out and the tank, then I’ll have a relaticely clean and large area where I can get to the incoming waterline to heat and insulate it properly. I think the little room it encloses (About 4x4x6′) will be a good storage area as well, possibly for root vegetables. Suppose this also means it’s about time to think hard about doing some plumbing upgrades in the basement as well. Going to be a busy spring.

We have a pair of bluejays that have nested in the big oak in the front. I am pleased to see them, and hear the rhubarb they create.

They alone don’t seem to fear the squirrels, and in fact will dive on them. I hope to get more feeders this summer and maybe get some hummingbirds too.