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School and hunting season. . .
School started late in August and I haven’t had a chance to blog. Bow season has been open since the first weekend in October. I have been out twice with hubby and actually sat in a deer stand both times. It is difficult to sit 12 feet in the air in the dark with a…
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Beautiful Repurposing
Check out my sister’s new headboard fashioned from two salvaged doors and pieces of pressed tin removed from a flower pot! A little help from hubby, some paint and sanding, and voila! Genius, and wonderful addition to her shabby chic farmhouse bedroom! Good work, Sharon!
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Too HOT to hunt. . .
. . .but my hubby doesn’t think so. He was so proud when he came home the other day proclaiming that he had shot yet another wild pig with his Martin Firecat bow and Rage Broadhead! Since he was alone on his hunting expedition–believe me, if it is warmer than 80 degrees out, I am…
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Home Butchering Ain’t for Sissies. . .
It’s been awhile but I promised to talk about our hog butchering, home edition. It wasn’t pretty. We brought my first kill home, along with her piglet, and as I was inside searching the phone book for a meat processor with late hours, hubby was outside in our carport with mama pig across his open…
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Gettin’ Mama Hog and Her Baby Outta the Dark Dark Woods
Well, I promised to tell the story of how Jimmy and I got my first kill, a wild female sow, and one of her babies, out of the woods that February day back in 2010. We were so pumped! He didn’t even realize that I had seen a pig until he saw me raise my…
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