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Hi all, Days off just at the right time, clearing up before the snow hits and getting stuff power washed while the hose still works and ending the day with a few casts up the road in the evenings.

Yesterday was wild game day in the kitchen, doing some cooking before rifle season for deer........ First up was a big pot of rabbit noodle soup, using a couple cottontails. Next was squirrel pot pie with a couple tree rats. 😉 see pic I also had a couple more cottontails in the pot with the squirrels. They will become rabbit pot pie and rabbit stew. In the meantime, I had a deer neck from last November simmering away all day in the slow cooker. I deboned the meat last night, and this with the stock will become a big pot of hearty venison barley soup. And for supper, I had moose tenderloin with fresh free-range eggs, yum yum!!! Life is good. Doug

You just described England year round, there’s more than one reason I moved over here…. Lol

80 pounds.....holy crap. Imagine the crushing power in his bite. Yikes! And yes, "Gentle" is always spoken in a calm and loving manner, they understand that our vocal tones underlie and enforce the command itself, imo.

Yeah, I got ya, Spiel, when Matty starts getting carried away I pull away from him, or try to, ( had him out to the Vet yesterday and he weighs almost eighty pounds, seven months old, that is where the King Shepard comes in) I just tell him, and in a gentle voice but with some compassion in it, easy, don't hurt dad and it wasn't long before he understood what I meant. Priceless!

Thank you very much for that Spiel. You are absolutely right. He loves me as much as I do him and he certainly shows it. Of course at seven months old he does love to play and gets pretty wired up and if I'm not bleeding than we aren't playing hard enough. LOL.

Ems entrance at St Joes in Toronto mid day. This guy hung around for a good 10 min before moving on.

Born there, done that..

Yikes! LOL And yet in the hands of a compassionate and loving owner those teeth will never harm anyone, intentionally as you well know Barry.

thats the major difference we experience here in the balmy south. Growing up daytime highs in Southern Ontario were never much below the freezing mark and more specifically when the big weather systems moved in from the south, our snowfalls were always hovering around the freezing mark. Usually a big storm came with some mixing of freezing rain etc. and now with this warming climate a couple of degrees to the warmer side, suddenly most of our big weather events in the winter just fall as cold heavy rain. Up in your neck of the woods, it might not be -20 for weeks on end anymore, its more like -10 or even into the single digits below freezing, but its still winter. I couldnt believe it, i drove to kapuskasing through cochrane for work in early march last year and it was already spring...the snow was basically on its last legs. heck I was boating in parry sound in march! not a skim of ice in sight. I swear any person that "loves" the winters weve been having these past few years is absolutely sick in the head. give me -15 and sunny over +2 and pouring rain/dreary...honestly there may be no colder weather than when it pours rain and its hovering around freezing. Last year didnt we break a record for the most consecutive cloudy days? If i recall we had some kind of stretch of 40 days straight from november to january where it was cloudy +5 and grey...and people are celebrating it?