Nearly every morning, Brown-eyed Man turns on Maverick at 5 a.m. So, nearly every morning I come to work with the Maverick theme song stuck on my head. Brown-eyed Man is addicted to the Encore Western channel. Cheyenne is another favorite.
Anyhoo, Brown-eyed Man is hunting this week and wasn't there to turn on Maverick this morning. I was able to watch the news and learn about the world around me for once and who still comes to work with the Maverick theme song in her head?
I've got a quick meeting this morning, then I'm heading over Berniece's house and we're going hunting as well. Before you go all "How can you shoot Bambi" on me, let me first explain a few things:
1. A large portion of the money I spend on my hunting license, deer tag, bullets and gun goes toward conservation of deer habitat and helps the population of deer. What have YOU been doing to help the deer?
2. We eat the meat. We don't just go out there for the hell of it to shoot animals. This will actually feed my family.
3. Unless you are a vegan reading this blog (after today's post, if you are a vegan you'll probably stop reading it), You eat some form of animals that have been killed. In many cases, the fashion in which they are killed in much less humane than a gunshot.
4. I'll be more than happy to argue hunting and gun rights with anyone so let's move on before you make me mad.
Monday Morning...
I should have posted this before I left, but in my "I can't wait to kill something" frenzy, I forgot to post it. It was actually an "I can't wait to get to that winery we've been talking about visiting" frenzy so I'm sure you understand.
Berniece and I took off and headed south toward Roseburg. For the past few years we have begged the husbands to stop on the way at a winery we always see. It can't be 10 miles from our final destination, but do you think they will stop? If you do, you're wrong.
We get there and it looks like you're going to be wine tasting in someone's garage. Someone who might cut you up and eat you for lunch. We think better of this plan and start backing out the driveway when one of them spots us. He's waving his arms trying to get us to stop and then out of the house runs a woman in her pajamas! At Noon! I don't know whether I mentioned this before, but I have a real problem with people who wear pajamas outside of their home. If you want to wear pajamas all day long, more power to you but I don't want to see it at the grocery store or, in this case, at a winery. Ish.
So, do we keep driving? NO, we felt guilty that this raggedy-ass chick dashed out in her jammies to serve us wine so we went into the previously mentioned garage and tasted what actually turned out to be some very good wine. Berniece bought a bottle and I bought two and we high-tailed it out of there before they could say "We'd love to have you for lunch...".
Among all the fun things we saw this weekend:
1. A one-legged turkey. I named him "Hoppy" Clever, I know. I didn't get his picture.
2. A peacock. No one knows where he came from, but he fits right in with the previously mention one-legged turkey, a 25+ year old horse that's blind in one eye, and various pigs, rabbits and chickens.
3. Mountain quail:
4. Elk Poop. How do I know? I have a book about poop AND I'm such a Woman of the Woods, that I just know.
5. Possible Bear Poop. I don't know this one for sure. I need to consult the book. Could be coyote or cougar. I didn't stick around that spot for long.
6. Bear tracks. Creepier than possible bear poop as it's difficult to tell exactly how fresh these tracks are. Note the claw marks in the bottom photo.
7. Eight very tame deer. Berniece's Mother-in-law feeds them stale bread in her yard. I had one almost take the bread out of my mouth but I spooked him and he bolted. Here are four of the tame deer. The one I'm feeding in this photo is a little buck. He had tiny little nubs on his head and I asked Brown-eyed Man if we could take him home, but he wouldn't let us.
8. A rainbow on the way home. It's almost a double rainbow! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?????! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go to You Tube and search for Double Rainbow guy.
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