Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[SillyChicken]

Yeah! My back feels better today... Chiropractor used his little mini hammer thingy on my spine..it worked pretty good, I could feel it working everything in place though it took quite a beating to get the one vertebrae back in place. Got home, iced it and stayed on the couch with my legs propped for the evening....... slept solid all night... woke up sore, but no longer in pain... so far anyway, I'm taking it super easy! The heaviest thing I'm lifting today is my coffee cup!
DH got sand in the smaller run for me and I hope he'll finish the other this weekend. I feel bad sticking him with it all.
DH also got all my hunting stuff down from the attic and started washing it for me. DF got the blinds out last night (normally we get them out sooner but they were traveling for a funeral). I was dog sitting for my parents and thought it was funny that their dog stayed with me all evening after I hurt my back, would not leave me to go eat. And didn't like it when my dog came to see me, silly little dog.
I'm excited about deer season as well. I am set up to bow hunt, but I rarely have time to practice and I won't bow hunt unless I do. My sister is coming down from Sheboygan tonight to hunt for the weekend. I'll be depending on her and my dad to help if I get anything. I try to save a week every year to take off for deer season. Now that I get 3 wks vaca, that makes it nice! I have tomorrow and then all next week off... work 3 days next week, Wednesday night DH and a couple friends are heading to the Filmore in the D to see Megadeath... good way to start the holiday!

Good luck to everyone who does hunt... please be safe!

 

[RaZ]

My only hope of getting a deer is if I Buick a buck.

 

[SillyChicken]

DH 1: Deer 0

Doh! No for real DOH! Glad he was ok.

 

[SillyChicken]

My only hope of getting a deer is if I Buick a buck.

or you could Dodge a doe!

 

[fried green eggs]

My only hope of getting a deer is if I Buick a buck.

Ouch! That can be a expensive way to get meat in the freezer. But, it can work out good - I had a deer run into my drivers side door and scarred the h*** out of me when it's head hit my window. Deer bounced down the side of truck bed and kept on running. Caved my door in good and a couple small dings on the side of the bed. Insurance covered the whole thing and I got 1/2 of my 12 year old truck painted for free.

Looks like new on drives side, now just need a deer to attack the passenger side. lol

 

[Opa]

While I've never hit a deer myself, I have butchered quite a few roadkills and I have found that most of them aren't worth the effort. The impact usually explodes the deers internal organs and the smell that results will impart a flavor to the meat that we never have with deer that we killed with gun or bow. Many times the impact is so dramatic that large portions are completely ruined and the blood clots so thick that you can't get them out of the meat. By the time you discard all of the inedible meat you wind up with very little. If you take the animal to a processor they charge per animal not edible meat so the cost per usable pound can become quite prohibitive.

I was very disappointed realize that the post operative infection was going to prevent me from hunting opening day for the first time in 37 years. Since I wouldn't be able to hunt I decided that I would go to the farm and visit with my old friend while David hunted. However, the infection hasn't been responding very well to treatment and yesterday the swelling caused the incision to break open. While the copious amount of drainage did relieve some of the pain and reduce the swelling I thought that I should go back to the surgeon today. The antibiotic I've been taken hasn't been particularly acceptable by this old body causing me a great deal of stomach pain so I want to ask for something different as well as have the rupture incision checked.

So after being checked by a nurse, a physicians assistant, and finally the surgeon himself, I am now scheduled for additional surgery tomorrow, thereby completely destroying my opening day and possibly the rest of the gun deer hunting season.

Life can sure get interesting.

 

[MIchickens]

I wish you the best Opa. Hopefully when they put you out you can dream of the hunt of a lifetime. My bretheren and I will shoot off a round in honor of you at noon tomorrow.

 

[RaZ]

So after being checked by a nurse, a physicians assistant, and finally the surgeon himself, I am now scheduled for additional surgery tomorrow, thereby completely destroying my opening day and possibly the rest of the gun deer hunting season.

Wishing you good luck for tomorrow.

 

[Elyssia001]

I wish you a speedy recovery Opa.


I've been browsing the permies.com forum when I came across people talking about purchasing bare rooted tree saplings from their state's department of forestry. Does anyone know if Michigan does this, and where I can see what they offer?

 

[lbrykowski2011]

ladyr- sorry about the car, at least DH is ok. Meat's usually to bruised to keep anyways.

taprock- Try dr. pepper for pulled pork, delish. Our church has a cook off once a yr called The Bobby Crocker Cook Off for 14 and up boys n men, women not allowed to help cook or clean up for the dish. Love it, when my 1 son turned 14, he did a turtle cheesecake and received 1st prize. He was so excited, then that was it, hasn't cooked much since.

Opa- so sorry you will miss hunting, but your health is more important to insure for future hunts. Take care tomorrow, praying

Husband and 1 son left an hr ago for hunting. They just go to Yale, which is real close and hunt at his dad's, but it's their time and I have my youngest (14) to spend a lil time with here. We have the kitchen aid and grinder ready to go at a moment"s notice if need be.

Good luck to all!!!