Salvation Army

Everyone knows about sending off what you do not want to Goodwill or the Salvation Army. Every time we move, we clean things out and send them off. As they say "one man's trash, another's treasure". Well, not for the Salvation Army. You know that I have become an expert at the City Landfill here in Baker. Today was the second time that I saw a HUGE S.A. truck at the dump. They almost filled up a dumpster that is about 30 feet long, 8 feet tall. They were chunking everything from baby dolls to recliners.

This makes me think that those days where I seperate the trash pile from the Goodwill pile is nothing but a waste of time. I am sure that they are throwing this away because they do not have room for it in their warehouse or whatever they keep it in, but really is that why we donate? Should they be sending it overseas? Should we just be wasting away perfectly good stuff that we do not WANT for ourselves? Do you even think this is a problem?

Word Verification

It took two anonymous comments to make me do this. Really the other one was not bad. This past comment was horrible! I had someone make a comment about my gravel and it contained many links to porn sites. IT ONLY TAKES ONE BAD APPLE. Sean was warning me about not having word verification and how people will just post stuff to everyones blog, well it happened and now I am changing it.

So you are going to have to take the extra time to fill out one more blank before sending me a comment.

Peace out, thanks for being good people. And I am sorry if anyone had to witness that horrible comment.

Was it fun?

Judging from the picture above, would you say that I was having fun?

Let's see, there is a tractor involved, there are rocks involved, and I do not have to worry about getting stuck (for now). I would say that I was having a little bit of fun.

I started cleaning the mess along the drive way a couple of days ago. I went to the dump this morning and unloaded that mess for about an hour and then came I home to find this huge pile of limestone in my driveway. I immediately hooked up the box-grader to the tractor and starting going at it. Then I realized that I could not move the rocks with the tractor because the pile was too high. I got out the wheelbarrel and started at the top. Not too long from there I was on the tractor paving my driveway.

Would you do this?

The more that I look at it I might consider doing it. One of two things would happen, I would like it and I would do it over and over again, or I would not like it and I would vomit on the person would made me do it.

The "Glass Jug" Update - part 2

So I was watching this program last night about the methamphetamine epidemic (good show) and I saw something that I thought was very interesting. Every time they showed one of the labs there was something in common, the glass jug. I swear it really was in every shot they took of a lab. I would go on the internet to get pictures but I am scared that they are going to think that I am trying to make it or something. They were using them to help "cook up" the chemicals or something. If you do not believe me you can watch it on pbs.org (The Meth Epidemic).

I am not saying that my jug was used for that, I am just saying that it was not some kind of a fire safety tool used in carpentry.

Rifle Season

Rifle season comes to an end...

With the water coming up 2-3 feet in some places on the deer lease it brought many deer up onto to high land. This past season was one of the most plentiful seasons that I have seen out there in Maringouin. I believe that every hunt this year, except for this past Saturday morning, I saw at least one deer. This is something that I was not use to after last season where we had a case of the nocturnal deer all year long. I might even be able to say that I saw just as many bucks as does. It really was a great year. I had a missed opportunity or two, but this weekend I made up for it by harvesting a doe. I look forward to getting some tasty meat from that one!

"The Glass Jug" - Update

I was told today by the owner of the glass jug that it was used to hold sulfuric acid.

Sorry big bro, you were totally wrong on that little "fire safety" tool.

Food Saver

This is my second time using my Christmas present (the Food Saver). I have come to the conclusion that I really like it. After a whole deer was sealed by a bunch of us at the Head house I was thinking "thats a pretty good machine to do all of that meat like that". I am still thinking that thing really does a good job after using it again today. As you can see I have about 5 bags with some meat in them (pork chops). They are all nice and air tight! I have them in the freezer right now. It was more fun this time because I got to work the machine by myself. Last time I was just a meat stuffer. Amanda was doing most of the machine "button pushing". It is definately more fun to work the sealer.

I might have to make a trip to good ole Adrien's in Lafayette for some of their specialty meats!

Traffic Safety

I am taking a traffic safety class at school right now. It is an engineering class, not like I got a ticket and need to learn how to drive all over again. This is a video that we looked at in class today. It might make you happy to sit at a light for 45 seconds.

Inside joke

This one goes out to Jessica:

I have'nt eaten in over a week.

Before and After - Cleaning

This week I have been working on cleaning out the garage so we can park our vehicles in there. I thought you might enjoy these pictures of before and after. I have taken approximately 5,000 lbs of trash (according to their scales) to the City Landfield. They actaully told me that there is a four load limit per month. I have brought 4 and #5 goes out today when Eric comes with me so they do not charge me.

Trashy garage.

Clean garage.

Back right part of the garage.

Clean back right part of the garage.

The Glass Jug

This is something interesting that I found in my garage. If anyone knows what it was used for let me know. It is solid glass and it weighs about 15 lbs.

Mexico Trip

My trip to Mexico was interesting from the start. When I just past Lafayette on I-10 I witness this person being a very careless driver on the road. He basically "zooms" into the right lane to pass about 5 cars. He then ATTEMPTS to "zoom" back into the left lane where he side-swipes a Toyota Camery. Oh yeah, he is in a Dodge Dually. So does he think to himself "OH NO", not really, he just keeps going like nothing happen. It was crazy. I mean he was going about 80 mph, almost pushes this guy completely off of the road and KEEPS GOING! So I speed up to get this guys license plate number and call this in. It had already been called in (by the victim) and I had to stay as a witness. There was a state trooper about 3 miles up the road. He pulled over the big truck and got him good.

So when I get to Mexico I was asked what I wanted to do: "I want to kill a deer or anything thing else". The first hunt, I shot a huge feral hog. I am thinking no less then like 300 lbs. It was just before dark so I could not find any blood. I went back the next morning and found pieces of pig bone, but no pig. I guess that the 300 mag. was not enough power for that fat thing. They did not want to look for that stinky worthless animal anyway. Coyotes got him later on.
Later on that day I was picked up from the stand so we could go watch a deer get trapped by a guy in a helicopter shooting a large cannon that spreads a net over the deer. It was getting trapped because a person who looked at the deer on the ranch was able to predict how much that deer and his genetics could earn the ranch owner. Can anyone guess? Probably not, because I am almost sure that nobody would have guessed $1,000,000. You can see him in a picture below. So they trapped him and he is now in a pin with 9 female deer that he will breed.
Another day another story. One of the mornings that was rainy and we did not think that we were going to go out because it was so wet ended up being one of the best mornings of my hunting life. I have been seeing deer all week that people would not even believe existed. It is still very surprising to me every time I see deer that HUGE. This particular morning I saw this huge 9 pt. and watched him for a while. Then there was this HUGE 10 pt. that walked out from the other side. Not to mention all of the other bucks that were around me. These two were just spectacular deer. Well, they ended up meeting each other about 75 yards from my stand. They then started to FIGHT! Yes...FIGHT! It was the greatest thing that someone could witness in nature. I could not believe what I was seeing! The fight lasted over 20 minutes. I have most of it on video. My hands were getting so cold filming the fight so I had to stop and warm them up. I also stopped to take some still shots, and my video time was limited since I can only fit about 30 minutes on one DVD. So if anyone is interested give me a call and you can come watch the fight. (I think that paper-per-view makes about $30 off of this kind of stuff) So you would think, "wow that is the perfect day", not yet. Later on that afternoon (my last hunt for the trip), we found one of the two deer that I was given the "ok" to kill. So long story short we creped him about 15 minutes, made sure that it was definitely the correct deer, and I got to shoot him. He dropped right where was, perfect shot. It was a team effort between the spotting of the deer, the creep, and my deer stopper (the guy who yelled "HHHHEEEEEYYYY" when I had a clear shot on the deer and needed it to stop in the clearing).

So aside from the Cheese Nachos and great meals and relaxing, that was my short version of a wonderful trip.

I encourage you to look at these pictures:

"Buy a Buck"

Fight

Fight Winner - notice the cut up neck.

Sorry about him being rude and sticking out his tounge.

Christmas 2006

Christmas Eve and Christmas day were both great days. We were able to spend it with many family members and a couple of friends were visited inbetween. My very nice present from Santa was a food saver. It was put to use on almost 100 lbs of meat this past weekend. JT was nice enough to give up some meat since he has three deer in his freezer right now (not to mention that big head in there). Amanda got a foot spa thingy. And there were some other small things. It was really great thought. My uncle and one of my cousins came for dinner, that was special.

Coming Soon...

I am back. I know that week was rough without me (or 2 1/2 weeks).

I am going to be making a post soon about my wonderful Mexico trip. I will also tell you all about my Christmas, New Years, etc...