With a quick cold front destroying my cucumbers, green beans and the last of the tomatoes things have been slow lately, but there are other things I have been trying to get done. This is an old beech tree I have finally gotten around to sawing up for fire wood. I have two of these and a Walnut tree to get to, but I should have cut them up much sooner and we will end up buying at least some firewood. This might be ok, later in the winter if I can get it split and put up. I used a cheap electric chainsaw and a generator to cut this thing up. The key with a cheap saw is to keep the file close at hand and sharpen it often.
The main happing around here is that I finally got my first deer. A little doe. I was just happy to hit what I was shooting at. I had fired a few practice shots, and they were about four inches low so the first thing I shot at I aimed a little high, but not enough and I put a slug into the leg of tripod stand that holds up the corn feeder. My practice shots had only been about seventy yards and the feeder is about a hundred and twenty yards from the house. So I had to aim even higher and I finally hit it. It went straight through, but didn't drop it so I had to wait an hour and track it into the woods. It hadn't got very far before it collapsed.
I carried it back to house and strung it up so Luci and I could skin it. Since I had no idea what I was doing and since Luci hadn't done it since she was a teenager we had to get mom's to tell us how to get started. I thought getting the skin off was the most disgusting thing I had ever done until I had to reach in to get some of the guts out and I lost my lunch all over the place. Luckily I managed not to barf on the meat. I have now come to have a new Indian name. Puking Bear. We got it skinned and cut up. Tonight we ate some of the loin which was fantastic. Nothing tastes better than death. Even though I will probably puke my way through gutting the next one I will probably try again this weekend. If I can't bring myself to do at least do some of the killing and cleaning I should become a vegetarian.
