Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[MechanicMatt]

From field to table, doesn’t get much better than this!!

Onions from the same farm the deer was harvested at

 

[SS396driver]

Bells?

Gotsch tree farm

 

[MechanicMatt]

Gotsch tree farm

How far is Bell’s from you? That’s where we get ours every year, if memory serves me right, it’s up nearAccord. Is this other one closer??

 

[SS396driver]

How far is Bell’s from you? That’s where we get ours every year, if memory serves me right, it’s up nearAccord. Is this other one closer??

This one is much closer to me . Wouldn’t be closer for you as you have to get off 209 and head up towards Grahamsville. I have past Bells on motorcycle rides

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

A couple of updates:

For Thanksgiving I did the green bean casserole in the pumpkin in the cast iron dutch oven all cooked with a wood fire outside. Roasting the pumpkin for about an hour before adding the green bean casserole seems to be the key to getting the punkin done.

On Nov. 5th my colon perforated (while waiting for scheduling surgery to remove a section with a cancer) (what I call a colon-disconnectomy). Emergency surgery and a week in hospital. Thankful for skilled ER team and the whole hospital care ( and all support members that keep everything working) team: nurses, PAs, student nurses who are not turned off by dealing with ostomy bags (stinky and poopy) who will be doing this work in the future, and everyone else who kept me going, and my family for their support. Meeting with oncologist next week; will see what they say about my future.

Re: Dealing with estates and how sometimes it doesn't go well: My parents put their assets, including various parcels of farmland, into trusts set up to provide income for the four of us siblings until the last of us dies, at which point the trusts terminate and whatever is left is distributed to our children. Up until a couple of years ago, we probably all expected we would be living into our nineties; our parents lived to 91 and 93, three grandparents into their nineties. We currently range from 70 to 75. We don't do drama.

Great tha you had the level of emergent medical care that you so badly needed. And great that you appreciate the efforts of the care givers. Hope the prognosis for your situation is favorable. Retired EMT

 

[Lee192233]

@farmer steve and @sean donato how was the PA opener?

 

[sean donato]

@farmer steve and @sean donato how was the PA opener?

Basically a bust for me. Spent the morning out at happy land. 7 doe, one little 6 point buck. Only one I could have shot was a doe, and it was about the size of of my golden retriever. Ran out to the mountain with my brothers after the farm. Dad ditched us. (Tagged out in archery season anyway.) My younger brother got his buck the last day of archery, so he was doe hunting. So we went out to turkey hollow, and my older brother went up on the ridge about a 1/2 mile from us. Had a good hike in, got all set up and sat. Right before dusk we had a mum and mutt come in off the top of the hollow, kinda side hilling it, about 150 yards away through some pine thickets. Kinda sat there just waiting for them to walk out.... got busted by the dark. Just ran out of time. Pretty sure they went in there to bed down. Took our good old time walking back to the truck and called it a day. Wasn't a lot of guys out at all, kinda think that's why I didn't see many deer today. One parking lot was full, up on the blue Mt, but the burn side we hunt was deadsville. Not much shooting either. If I don't go out tomorrow afternoon, I'll spend all day Monday out. Sounds like we're going back to happy land Wednesday if Monday/ Tuesday are a bust.
So, not a bad day all things considered.