I used a shovel to push snow off parking area, the driveway can melt on it's own...
A fella called this morning and said he caught a Red in a cable and ask if I would show him how to skun it.
This same guy has brought 10 Reds to me this season that he skun, balls & pecker left on, lower lip left on, A-hole left on. I told him, next time you catch one, bring it over so I can show you how to do it. That went well and he understands how to do it now. Glad he stopped in and wanted to learn. I told him, next year, you are boarding and drying your own fur...lol.
His Red this morning was a female in heat. I ask if he had more cables nearby and he said NO.
I told him to go back and hang more cables because there will be males following. He then said there were alot of other Red tracks in the snow up and down that trail. We had talked before and during the season and I schooled him about the importance of multiple cables on trails, especially mating season. He seen it first hand this morning, in fresh snow.
I shoveled snow, skun, fleshed and boarded a Red, cut a small tree down, got tractor pulled limbs over to burn pile, cut logs and stacked 'em, by then right hand, thumb & trigger finger were froze like a popsicle and called it quits for the day. Removed boots, coveralls & coat at the back door and wife said, I got the Brine ready! Darn, I forgot...am going to smoke a Salmon fillet tomorrow. So we mixed up a brine, added Salmon and in the frig till tomorrow morning.
Enjoy being retired, had other stuff to do today, but that will be for another time.
Wife is making S.O.S. today, one of my favorites. (venison dry beef)
