Ugly Sauce
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When season closes here I get the State Land all to myself again for hiking playing bush-craft. Since it's not polite to fire up a camp fire out in the woods when others are trying to hunt I just wait to do that later, and so I did that yesterday.
First I walked up on this big boy, like five minutes after the wife dropped me off, and his friend, actually got a picture. You can see he's just lost his antlers, and he's not happy to see me, look at how he's got his neck and hump-hair raised. And ears back. But, he went right, and I went left around behind them. I was so focused on this guy, that I didn't see the other one until I started to circle around behind.
But I felt safe, I had the .54 Pistol, And the TC with my "new" (to me) "trapper" barrel on it, in .58" smoothbore. Both loaded with ball and plenty of Pixie Dust. Enough Pixie Dust to choke a Moose.
Some of the land looks like this, some has denser trees, some is rocky with basalt rock formations. Some woods so dense you can hardly get through it. First blue sky after a week of rain.
Here's a pond down in a hole, dries up about mid-summer, fills up in the spring. Another of my favorite spots.
I have a favorite spot where I have a fire ring. So I had me a fire of course.
And cooked brats and slices of summer sausage on a stick.
But of course, a cigar. It was a good one, good to the last puff.
Now I saw this on YouTube, where the "Woodland Escape" guy roasted some coffee beans, put them in a bag, smashed them up with a stick, and threw the whole mess in a pot. So I tried it, skeptical, thinking it would not be good. Dang. It was GREAT. Made a fine pot of coffee. So, I'll probably be packing beans instead of instant from now on. Well, it was a nice day for it, after lunch I hiked around, ran into those same moose two more times. Them moose say: "Thanks for listening". !!!
First I walked up on this big boy, like five minutes after the wife dropped me off, and his friend, actually got a picture. You can see he's just lost his antlers, and he's not happy to see me, look at how he's got his neck and hump-hair raised. And ears back. But, he went right, and I went left around behind them. I was so focused on this guy, that I didn't see the other one until I started to circle around behind.
But I felt safe, I had the .54 Pistol, And the TC with my "new" (to me) "trapper" barrel on it, in .58" smoothbore. Both loaded with ball and plenty of Pixie Dust. Enough Pixie Dust to choke a Moose.
Some of the land looks like this, some has denser trees, some is rocky with basalt rock formations. Some woods so dense you can hardly get through it. First blue sky after a week of rain.
Here's a pond down in a hole, dries up about mid-summer, fills up in the spring. Another of my favorite spots.
I have a favorite spot where I have a fire ring. So I had me a fire of course.
And cooked brats and slices of summer sausage on a stick.
But of course, a cigar. It was a good one, good to the last puff.
Now I saw this on YouTube, where the "Woodland Escape" guy roasted some coffee beans, put them in a bag, smashed them up with a stick, and threw the whole mess in a pot. So I tried it, skeptical, thinking it would not be good. Dang. It was GREAT. Made a fine pot of coffee. So, I'll probably be packing beans instead of instant from now on. Well, it was a nice day for it, after lunch I hiked around, ran into those same moose two more times. Them moose say: "Thanks for listening". !!!