What Did You Do Today?

[YosemiteBen]

Here in California they passed legislation to be able to pick up roadkill, still have not enacted it due to the fact they are "trying to iron out the details, ie - permitting and the like so folks arent just hitting deer to get the meat...."

[Digital Caveman]

So that's what your legislature has been busy with?  They'll probably require a 'known in the state of California to cause cancer' label on all salvaged venison.  Good luck,

[Deerhunter21]

I wish I could do that here. I haven’t checked but I don’t think I can. I don’t like seeing an animal die just to go to waste. My grandparents once saw a deer get hit. They called a state thing, I can’t remember what, but a week later they had a guy come over and he gave them a good bit of deer jerky.

I just think stuff like that’s kinda cool. It definitely wasn’t necessary but it was pretty nice for them the give my grandparents some jerky.

[Eric Krewson]

The hitting deer on purpose thing is nonsense; lets see" I think I will hit a deer and do $2000 worth of damage to my car so I can have some venison".

The had a similar nonsense law in Alabama that stated that you couldn't hunt squirrels in Bama with anything bigger than a 22 because if you had 50 caliber muzzleloader you might shoot at a deer out of season if you saw it. I killed a bunch off squirrels with a .50 cal TC loaded down so it didn't go bang it went "bloop" before they enacted this stupid law. People with the criminal mindset will shot at a deer with #8 birdshot if they get a chance.

Fortunately they changed the las and you can shoot squirrels with any caliber M/L now.

[WhistlingBadger]

Stupid laws that make people feel like they're DOING SOMETHING, even if it's completely pointless.

But what am I doing today?  Met with a few friends for Bible study and singing; started putting nocks on a new bow, a kid's bow, this one.  Working handle D-bow, going for 20#@19", thinking about recurving the tips just to learn how.  Took the Badgerling for a walk in the country.  Smoking some pork ribs to give to a friend that just moved to the neighborhood.  Probably head out for a trail run pretty soon.

[Tradslinger]

surviving having all my teeth pulled, now have two blocks of wood in my mouth LOL. Struggling to drink water with them in right now. finally got the blood to slow down in my mouth. my wife claims that it gets better but it sure ain't right now. right now I don't see how I could get any food into my mouth with these things in but give it another 2 weeks or so. old hat to some but all new to me.

[Gimlis Ghost]

surviving having all my teeth pulled, now have two blocks of wood in my mouth LOL. Struggling to drink water with them in right now. finally got the blood to slow down in my mouth. my wife claims that it gets better but it sure ain't right now. right now I don't see how I could get any food into my mouth with these things in but give it another 2 weeks or so. old hat to some but all new to me.

When I had the rest of my teeth pulled there was hardly any bleeding. Though the teeth still looked healthy they were all dead at the roots. Not sure what caused it but I suspect a post operative infection, or the treatments for it, may have caused it.

Haven't done anything useful for nearly a week but I did manage to figure out how to replace the serpentine belt on my sister's Escort without a second person holding back the tensioner arm.
I put a long piece of tubing, the leg off a camera tripod, over the breaker bar and holding it all the way back I lowered the hood on it. That held it steady while I slid under the car and eased the belt onto the sprockets. Runs fine now.

I'd have hated to have to change one on the side of the road but it can be done without jacking the car up.

[osage outlaw]

I recently found out the area I'm hunting in Colorado is on a burn ban.  I'll need a way to cook some meat over a flame.  I found a small propane camp grill at a thrift store today.  It uses the small green bottles.  The heat shield had some rust damage but everything else was in good shape.  I made a new shield out of stainless using the old one as a pattern.  It's as good as new now.

[Pat B]

Now, that's turning a sow's ear into a silk purse. Nice work, Clint. 

[chamookman]

Good job Clintster !  Bob.

[BowEd]

I see Clint is up to his revizing tactics again.Nice work.Stainless...That should'nt wear out very quick.
We keep 2 of those kind of stoves around for when the current goes off for an extended amount of time.I've always had one and picked up the other at a sale for $10.00.They are still both coleman white gassers.

We canned a bakers' dozen of peaches from our peach trees today.There should be more to come on the second tree soon.Looking foraward to some cobbler and pies.

[Deerhunter21]

i LOVVVE canned peaches! they are the best! they look good!

[JW_Halverson]

I see Clint is up to his revizing tactics again.Nice work.Stainless...That should'nt wear out very quick.
We keep 2 of those kind of stoves around for when the current goes off for an extended amount of time.I've always had one and picked up the other at a sale for $10.00.They are still both coleman white gassers.

We canned a bakers' dozen of peaches from our peach trees today.There should be more to come on the second tree soon.Looking foraward to some cobbler and pies.

You are doing what I wish I had time to do. But the date has been set to move in to the new Black Hills Raptor Center and I have an absolute drop-dead date to have things done. I suck at anything construction oriented and I have to take 3x longer than necessary because I gotta work it all out in my head or risk wasting material, time, and demolition to just go back and start over.

We have a couple of stands in town selling Colorado peaches and they are gnat's sneeze from being perfectly ripe. Man, I'd love to can up two or three flats!

This morning I hauled out three metal clad exterior doors from the Habitat For Humanity Re-Store and built casements for them. They are not particularly pretty, but they are mostly square and the doors will fit! Tuesday morning I learn how to hang them on hinges, install doorknobs, and set the striker plates in the jambs.

In the meanwhile, I am working on paperwork to have a peregrine falcon transferred to our permit from another facility. From the photos, I am pretty sure she is an "anatum" subspecies, and she's prettier than a pup with a partridge in her mouth! I have been wanting one since the day we incorporated this bird circus, and we're gonna have room for one come August 31st!

[BowEd]

Seasonally the colorado peaches do appear in grocery stores here too.Rather expensive though.We've canned those in the past.They are very good too.Peach trees here don't bear fruit every year.Peaches here directly from the trees are top shelf peaches taste wise.We hit the iron while it's hot then.Still waiting for the peaches on the other tree to completely mature and they won't ripen all at the same time either.It does'nt take very long to can things.Some things can be froze and canned or pickeled at a later date too.
I've been through all of the construction building the place here around 20 years ago besides my fix it knowledge farming 30 years.It does help to know these things for the future.Additions in the future are made right then too.
I walked/drove/and hauled with the 4 wheeler thousands of button or velvet leaf weeds and cocobers from around the perimeter of the corn field here yesterday to keep them from going to seed.The interior of the field was sprayed and does'nt look too bad.Lopped off dozens of thorn trees in the waterways treating the stump with a stump killer.Do these things every year.On a farm the work is never done.

[Deerhunter21]

Well... I am now learning how to boulder and rock climb!! i hate lifting so i needed to find another way to work out.... i got invited to go to a rock climbing gym for 15 buck a month!!! man im sore.....