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National Dog Day?
Apparently yesterday was National Dog Day. I don’t know if this is a ‘real’ thing or some Facebook meme run rampant (notice that every week is mental health awareness week now?) and I don’t much care. Dogs are great, they … Continue reading
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Tagged Black and tan, dog day, Dogs, Hound, K9, Missouri, Ridgeback
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A Failure
This is going to be a visual depiction of all the stages of turning a spalted bowl. FYI: Spalting is the process of allowing wood to go through a sort of controlled rot where fungal mycelium start growing in the … Continue reading
Posted in Wood stuff
Tagged bowl, broken, failure, maple, Missouri, sPALTED, sugar maple, Wood, woodturning
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The Loveliest Smile Indeed
This time of year I get asked about the leaves changing color pretty frequently. Sometimes by adults, sometimes by kids, even sometimes by hippies. Pretty much always after asking me, and before giving me time to answer, they hit me with … Continue reading
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Tagged abscission zone, autumn, carotenoid, dogwood, fall, fall color, Illinois, leaf, leaf color, leaves, Missouri, oaks, winged sumac
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What is “Gamey”?
I hear this word tossed around frequently and I wanted to explore it for some people who may have the wrong impression. First, the word “gamey” is loaded. It basically means the meat has an off-flavor, but by calling it … Continue reading
Posted in Meat Stuff
Tagged acorn fed, deer butchering, deer glands, deer lymph nodes, Game taste, Gamey, grinding deer, Illinois, Missouri, off flavor
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Winter’s Broken Back
So, as has been said many times by folks with much more delicate prose than myself, this winter blows. Don’t leave! This is not a post bitching about winter. Well, hang on…..&*(^$&(*)#*)!!! and then )*&*& to your $*)&^%*^ all over … Continue reading
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Tagged bird, bird calls, cardinal, cardinalis cardinalis, early bird calls, female cardinal, male cardinal, Missouri, snow, spring, tananger, winter, winter sucks
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A Bench
This is just a photo post about building a bench. It is lacking in serious details because I am not generally big into details, but it has lots of pretty pictures! If you have specific questions, like you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Wood stuff
Tagged bench, biscuit joiner, bradford pear, dado, Missouri, nantucket bench, pear, pear lumber, pegs, traditional woodworking, Travis Mohrman, walnut, woodworking
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The Meat With No Name, Part 1
The Italians and Spaniards don’t have a name for air-dried venison backstrap. That’s a problem. On a cow, this cut would be called the loin, but it’s a deer so we just call it a backstrap because….I don’t know…it sounds … Continue reading
Posted in Meat Stuff
Tagged Bresaola, Butcher, charcuteri, Curing (chemistry), Cutting board, Jarabe Tapatío, Lomo, lonza, Meat, Missouri, Salumi, Ssourah, venison
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A Book To Change A Life
I read a lot of books. Almost all of them are some form of science fiction or another, but I wanted to give a shout out to a very special non-fiction book that has changed my life. That is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldo Leopold, Arts, Land ethic, Leopold, Missouri, Nature, Sand County Almanac, Sean Jenkins, Shopping, Thinking Like A Mountain, WIU
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My Take On Hunting
I recently made a comment about not enjoying the whole “killing” part of hunting. I didn’t think much about it because I’ve said it for years, but several people asked me why I hunt if I don’t enjoy killing. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Deer, hunt, Land ethic, Meat, Missouri, Outdoors, Recreation, Squirrel, United States
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