Neanderpundit

So by popular request, here’s a picture of the deer. Because dead deer are not so nice to look at as live ones, it’ll be below the fold. Above the fold, I’ll put this picture of the alley where I dropped her.

Now imagine that in ten inches of snow. The brush you see to the left is mostly briar and multiflora rose. The wood stand you see to the right is not mine. Mine is to the left, in the shot, but, of course, you can’t SEE it, which would be the POINT.

Still. Part of my problem earlier was being too preoccupied with other things, and as I have an attention span even shorter than the norm, I was fidgety and tended to get out of the stand and wander off.

This time, I was not preoccupied, and had brought an old friend, to keep me company: Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. This book never fails to involve me, and is what I like to call “artificial patience for the short attention span”. Last year, I read something also very entertaining, a yet unpublished work by Fran Porretto. If you aren’t reading his fiction, or haven’t read it, you should be. It’s very good. It helped me get a deer last year. Anyway, here’s my deer.
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OK, so it took longer than I hoped, but the freezer will have deer meat in it in a day or so.

Have to find some butcher paper because I’m gonna try and DIY this year, the $75 processing fee being more than I wanted to deal with at present.

Feels good. One shot and down, too. There were three does crossing an open space between a contaminated area (Kingsbury is an old ammo dump) and a cornfield, I was set up in a stand close by. The lead doe was not the biggest, but not the smallest either.As I had been skunked several times this season, I wasn’t taking any chances. Managed to get it in the truck before dark, too, so I didn’t end up having to field dress it in the dark (always a hazard, as a decent knife for dressing has to be razor sharp)

It took getting my mind and soul right to get this, exactly like last year, and like last year, I got a late season animal. I’m at peace now, and ready for another year.

because Paul Martin says so

And I’m the queen of norway
Remember, folks: it’s EVERYONES freedom their after. Here’s hoping my canadian inlaws will find some rope, a lamppost, and some assembly intstructions.

The canadian gun registration program was going to be a simple, small thing. It has become a money pit with cost overruns that make Dick DaTurd Daley seem like a piker. And now, now that all those law abiding citizens have decided to register their weapons, they will lose them. Just like the germans who asked you if either of your parents were jewish, and thus knew to come round you up.

Nope, registration is a good thing. If we limit it to those politicians who feel the need to “control” the hoipoloi. Register these assholes as offensive weapons, and round THEM up.

Kim has a better way of putting it, as always. Me, I just want to see these bastards hang, I can’t get past the RCOB long enough to be coherent.