Deer Hunting season

[LizStreithorst]

This is bad but in other ways good.  My free range dogs will have to be locked up.  I have 2 who are not obedience trained and they head to the woods and look for deer to run in the morning don't not come home until dark.  2 sweet ones will go with them when the mood strikes them.  They will be shot because they are interfering with the hunters.

I locked them in the house yesterday.  It's not all that bad for them.  They have access through a couple of pet doors to a fenced back yard which unfortunately is 400 sq. ft. smaller since I had the fish room built.  The winter, when I can see through the privet hedge and other wild stuff growing will be a good time to enlarge it if I can get up the desire to do the work.  I have the metal fence posts.  All I'll need to buy is a roll of dog fencing 2 big corner posts and  4 8' treated 2X4's to get it done.  I could make them a really big fine yard where they could have a little run.  So far they have not even tried to escape.  They have actually become couch potatoes.

The other thing that is both good and bad is that without doors wide open, my house stinks of old cigar tobacco when I walk in.  I do love my imported cigars, but it's kind of a love hate relationship I have with them.  I've decided to take another shot at quitting, damn it.  I would love for them to no longer have a hold on me, but I hate suffering and it takes suffering.  I still have a few old butts which, trust me, I will get all I can from.  I will wean myself to e-cigs which I bought and then to nicotine patches I still have from the first time I tried to quit.

All this to keep a couple of worthless dogs from being shot by hunters. 

[ilroost]

Best of luck Liz. That is the one bad habit i have also. But i just can't seem to break it. I have tried the e-cigs and just didn't like them

[LizStreithorst]

I smoked cigarettes for 25 years.  Quitting them was the hardest thing I have ever done.  I swore that I would never smoke one again and have not.  But I was introduced to imported cigars and stupidly thought that they were innocuous.  They were for several years, but the longer you smoke them, the more you inhale and the more you inhale the more addicted you become.

I've almost licked it twice, but both times I thought that I had the addiction beat and I could smoke one.  That approach does not work.  Smoke one and you will smoke another and another and another until you're right back to where you started.

[Ron Sower]

The first thing I inhaled as an 11 year old kid was a cigar!  That was the last tobacco product I tried smoking! I thought my lungs were going to wither and die inside me!

The first time I tried chewing tobacco was during a college intramural softball game.  Hell, nobody told me not to swallow that stuff! I went back to the dorm sicker than I don't know what!  Last time for me on that stuff!

I'm such a tobacco wuss!

[Barb]

Good luck Liz! 
Barb

[BallAquatics]

I know where you're coming from Liz.  I smoked for 30+ years and tried to quite many times.  Until you are truly committed to quitting, it's almost impossible to do. My last one was in February of 2005.

Dennis

[PaulineMi]

Good luck Liz and good for you Dennis.

Liz when we lived out in a wooded dead end road rural area we had to keep our horses inside from pre-dawn til after dusk during deer rifle hunting season. It wasn't uncommon to have horses shot each hunting season.

Ron..I'm a tobacco wuss too.  Grew up in an era where everyone smoked and tried it myself a few times. Now realize I was lucky smoking never worked for me.

[JR]

Good luck Liz

[LizStreithorst]

The dogs are doing better than I am.  My two "wild" ones are becoming more mellow and trusting of me.

It's only been two days without a cigar for me.  Sometimes I'm fine, sometimes I'm a sufferin'.  When I'm suffering I could eat a horse.  I just made out my grocery list and have enough stuff on it to pig out for a month.  Chicken enchilladas with green sauce will be first.  Then I have the rest of the chicken to play with.  Chicken salad with tarragon and chicken stew with kale from the carcass and the meat left on it.   I'm also buying stuff for Alton Brown's chili recipe and stuff for Cajun Red beans and rice.  Good Lord, I will gain 30 lbs before this craving stops.

[ilroost]

Red beans and rice, now your talking. YumYum

[PaulineMi]

Liz...for the dogs....I put the chicken carcass and enough water to cover it in the pressure cooker for about an hour and a half. The bones get soft and are safe to feed. The dogs love the "slop" on their kibble.

[LizStreithorst]

Liz...for the dogs....I put the chicken carcass and enough water to cover it in the pressure cooker for about an hour and a half. The bones get soft and are safe to feed. The dogs love the "slop" on their kibble.

A chicken carcass is too valuable for my dogs until I have had my way with it.  All the flavor is in the bones and I make a stew with it.  Not until then do my dogs get the bones. 

[Mugwump]

Oooooh, someone has the munchies..

[Ron Sower]

I'm hungry now!

[Mugwump]

I'm hungry now!

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.....