Venision shot on the hill, fried in butter, seasoned with sea salt and fresh ground pepper, beans and potatoes from garden…..heavenly meal, really. Dad and I got the buck cut up a few days ago, after it was aged to perfection in an old cherry tree. I wish now I’d weighed the old […]
This is by far the cutest Ron Paul supporter I’ve seen. Be sure to check out the one were she speaks out against the draft.
Well, its that time of year again, winds screaming, colder than cold, snow up your gizzard and the mailbox starts filling up with seed catologs. Time to sit by the fire, fliping through the pages, dreaming about the smell of fresh tilled earth and the hope that comes every spring at planting time. […]
Moving back to the lower 48 has really turned us into a bunch of wimps. Headed out to do chores this morning and it was 5 above, I start thinking how cold it is and feel the chill stab through my carharts. Back in Alaska, 5 above was “coat optional/shirt sleeve” kind of […]
Big snow is a coming, at least thats what all the weather prophets are saying. Today I’ll be getting some more wood around and in the house so it don’t get burried and froze. First part of the week we had a mini-ice-storm of sorts. Slipin’ and slidin’ seem the only way […]
“In the end I don’t see how Governor Romney’s milquetoast Mormonism should prevent the typical American Christian from voting for him anymore then it prevented them from voting for George W. Bush with his milquetoast Christianity. Both these men, like most religious Americans today, are adherents of the same faith, and whether one votes for […]
Since my last post, winter has returned to the hill country. A good dose of snow and temps in the single digits at night. The wind last week was 50 miles an hour, brutal on top of the hill where I write this blog. I wasn’t expecting winter to come quite so […]
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