DOGWOOD ACRES, 11/10/08, ELANE CRUM
Hello friends. I have been working almost around the clock and do not seem to have much real news this week.
The final countdown to deer season has begun and I must begin to get my warm clothes together. Rick has been going into the woods and shooting squirrel and deer with a camera. I had hoped he would get a picture of the big buck that is going to be in my sights, but so far, only seeing small ones.
As for the squirrels, it is hard to eat one that has only been captured through the camera lens! Trixie, the fastest squirrel dog we have, catches a squirrel almost every time she is out of the pen. Not willing to share with either her siblings or her people, we still have not had squirrel stew.
Fortunately, there is ground venison in our deep freeze and we have had Sloppy Joes, Stew and Meatballs from it in the last week.
I did hear another good report from the youth hunt. Tom and Kathy Tilley’s grandkids, Cole and Kelsie Thomas, each got a nice deer. Cole’s was a 9-pt buck and Kelsie got a button buck. Deer Season is off to a good start at their house.
I did make time to do something new last week. After finishing with a closing at Evans Title Co. in Forsyth, I went across the street to the library where Sara Shannon fixed me up with a library card. I love to read but with little time to actually open the pages of a book, I have turned to audio books on CD. As I spend a lot of time in the car, my CD player can now read to me.
The library has a good selection of audio books, although with a lot of them being on cassette tapes, I may start carrying a tape player again.
Connie Hammond sent me an email with good information about the Missouri Dept. of Conservation’s plans to change guidelines for landowners who harvest deer on their own land. If I have my figures correct, the minimum of five acres will be changed to 80 acres to hunt free on your own land. That would sure cut us out of our landowner deer permit, along with about 78,000 other landowners in Missouri.
The public has until the end of November to change the minds of the MDC. I plan to post a list of contact information on my website,
www.dogwoodacresOnline.blogspot.com and encourage those who care to let the MDC and other agencies know how you feel about this plan.Bye for now.
3 comments:
Hi Elane, just decided to make a few comments on your latest columns. Enjoyed the picture of Rick and his buck in the Times. Deer hunting must be pretty good. I aggree with your post on the MDC trying to get money out of land owners with smaller acreage for hunting on ones own land. It seems if they don't raise taxes, they try to figure out how to get money out of people anyway the governmant can. I have noticed my Missouri annual fishing licence going up quite a bit the past few years. Haven't read much about Herman Rossner in the Times lately and was wondering how he has been doing. We wanted to go to the WRVHS Jamboree at Shadown Rock Park on October 25 but had previous commitments here at home on that weekend. I hope this comment works. Not sure if I got the blog loggins to work or not. Take care and keep up the great work on the dogwood acres columns.
Kansans
Hi Kansas Friends! It's been awhile, good to hear from you again. Your comment worked and I appreciate it. Come down when you can and be sure to call when you do!
Elane
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