Posts Tagged ‘hunting’

Small Journeys

When I was a kid my father used to take me into the woods to hunt.  Usually he was after some sort of game that I wasn’t quite qualified to tackle like grouse or pheasant or (if he came across one) woodcock.  He and I would walk into the woods until we found a nice [...]

8 Year Old Boy Killed When Father Hands Him an Uzi To Shoot at a Pumpkin

This is a tragedy, absolutely a tragedy.  An 8-year-old boy accidentally shot in the head and killed at a gun show.  When I first read the headline, I assumed the kid was playing with a gun that he wasn’t supposed to be playing with but then I read the article.  His father was standing right [...]

Geocaching

Tonight I found two geocaches. This is something I’ve wanted to do for years because it seemed so cool but I never had a GPS before so I couldn’t. Until now. Thanks to the iPhone I can now pinpoint my location sufficiently well to track down latitude and longitude coordinates and find what is hidden [...]

Tired From Hunting Morel Mushrooms

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Tired From Hunting Morel Mushrooms

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a two day entry

It’s hot and muggy out here today. I have got multiple cuts healing from yesterday. Hannah the cat slashed open my left middle finger after I had completed trimming her claws (apparently I didn’t trim them well enough because she also cut my stomach and knee all in one final act of evil [...]

hunting

The last time I went hunting I was 15 or 16 years old. I was raised with hunting as a way of life. I took gun safety training and got my gun safety certificate when I was in middle school. I have hunted squirrels, grouse, rabbits and pheasants but never larger animals [...]