On Friday 24 August 2012 09:33:05 Kent A. Reed did opine: > On 8/24/2012 5:43 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Oh no! Last I knew he only had 3 legs left cuz they weren't going to > > eat him all at once.:) > > I thought I was the only one left who knew that joke. People who grow up > in farm country have a different view of animals than the 3-rd > generation suburban folks around me. I'm not saying it's a better view, > just different. > > Regards, > Kent > Since the internet came around, it gets renewed about annually in my inbox. 3rd gen burb dwellers will probably never "get it" when they read the original. And while I was born in Des Moines and can still drive to that house at 2518 Adams Avenue, I was much more of a farm kid than a city kid, and I know exactly where my food comes from.
Before diabetes hit and I could go afield all day in -20F weather, I was an avid deer hunter, and have field dressed, skinned & butchered around 60 deer back in those days. 41 of them in a 2 year period in the late 60's in the Black Hills of South Dakota. With a large family at the time, we hunted year round and ate everything but the squeal. The game wardens watched, but we were just giving them a hand in controlling a very serious over-population of deer that in truth were decimating the black hills. And eventually the killer snowstorm hit in late March, and by the time we were able to drive around again 2 weeks later, 180k deer had yarded up and starved, about 25 or 30k survived. Those hills can carry 70k deer in an average winter, but the next fall when everybody was moaning about how hard the hunting was, I still managed to use every ticket they sold me without a lot of effort. One of my old friends was one of them and an agent, I had told him to take 2 home with him as I'd be needing them when I arrived from Nebraska around 2ish on thanksgiving day. I had gone to Nebraska for a better job, and still had SD residence rights. But he only took one home because the hunting was so poor. Anyway, I bought that ticket & headed on into the hills, only getting perhaps 10 miles on up the canyon before a small spike buck made the mistake of standing there long enough for me to collect him & field dress him. I drove back down to his place to see if he could find me another license & he was plumb flabbergasted that I had already used that one, insisting on seeing it, which was then laying on the tailgate of my station wagon. Dumb luck more than hunting skill to be sure. So I waited till the next morning in a local motel, bought another license the next morning, had it filled & was back home in Nebraska by about 11 pm that night. 3 days later we had 1/4 of a 20 foot freezer full of venison to make venison gravy with, yummy. But the last time I went hunting here, I almost froze my feet and it wasn't even freezing out. Hunting season here is held in the fall monsoon season. That means my favorite rifle now has a rust pitted barrel and isn't shooting as well as I'd like. Time marches on. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
