Fire - Decorative or Necessary? Before I moved to the rural community we live in now, I thought of the fireplace as more decorative than necessary. I enjoyed having a fire in it, but didn’t really rely on it for heat. Now that we have lived in our small … [Read more...]
First Hunt with my daughter
I went on a camping/hunting trip with my 3 oldest children. Here are a few things I learned and did to make camping with kids enjoyable. For the past few years, I've had the pleasure of having my sons join me in our annual hunting trip for Elk. This year my daughter is 9, and … [Read more...]
Sharing the tradition of hunting
In my family we hunt. It’s what we do and it’s an activity that we enjoy doing together. The growing trend of anti-hunters threatens this time-honored tradition. With us having 6 kids, hunting also helps bring in food for the family. This season I was able to not only takes … [Read more...]
These little piggies came all the way home…
In 13 huge cryogenically frozen boxes. Download of Bacon complete! The time has come, the meat is ready for pickup. I must say that Westcliffe Meats was great to deal with. I was unavailable to pick up the meat until after 6 as I had to work until 5 and the owner agreed to … [Read more...]
These little piggies go to the butcher
Downloading Bacon @ 95% So the time has come to turn chaos into sausage, hams, pork chops and of course BACON. We had a plan, the plan was good, the plan worked, kind of. So the awesome friend we have who loaned me the horse trailer the last time I had to transport the … [Read more...]