Bad Day at Block Rock - errrr - Make it Bad Year.

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Critters!!
Big banded king snake is still here. was laying in front of the barn door a couple of nights ago.

Have a small hawk coming by, seen it about 3 times. Scatters the doves, but don't think he is after them. Nailed a cotton tail one time. Sat to gloat & the rabbit got away.

Humming birds, how can so much bravado & ornery ness be built into something so small??? Was moving 1 of their sugar bottles. 1 Sat down on 1 side and another 1 did the same on the other side. About 8 inches in front of my face.
A small bird tried to get a hummer to feed it. Hopped from branch to branch begging.
First time ever saw a hummer drinking plain water.
Quail gone for a few days. Dove season open, think the shooting sent them into hiding. Still only a few coming in.

Saw the Dalmatian looking great Dane, its pit bull follower & a small dog the runs with them. Have seen them twice. Do wonder how the little one keeps up???

Do your dogs dream??
Kirby use to dream, could hear her feet going against the closet door.
Riley dreams a lot. Sort of half barks & her feet really go. She will turn over and in a few minutes do it all over again.
Bobby doesn't dream very often. Little 1/2 barks now & then. Has woke herself up a time or 2 with a loud bark.

Have any of you tried Bravecto?? Am thinking about trying it.

Accomplishing almost nothing lately. No energy or ambition.

The bear hunt. I remember very little of that day. Rode out past the Slaughter house & on past the lion kill. Don't remember loading the bear on the mule or the kill.
Do remember dad was really nerves. Rare that anything bothered him. This was shortly after bears became protected. If you killed 1, you had to prove it was killing livestock. When we go back to Slaughter's place he dumped the bear on the ground. Almost immediately cut open its belly. Reached in & found a hand full of calf hair. You could see the relief come over him.

Other fun hunts or similar stories if your interested.
Jim
 
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I do enjoy the tales and your observations of life in the desert. Please continue!!
 
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9 Hours of rain today. Started about 5 AM, wound up about 2 PM. Fairly light, not much water.

Saw tiny hop toad today. First 1 seen in a couple of years.
Have a turkey Buzzard that checks the place most every day. Sails in low about 20 feet away from me.
Have at least 1 wood pecker that feeds off the hummer water.
2 Young Oriels also feeding there.

Have a mine going in the yard. Started off a few weeks ago as a hole about 3 feet across & 2+ feet deep. Riley & Bobby really got after it yesterday. They started a tunnel, it's down & out. Dug enough that when they are in the tunnel, only their tail sticks out. Dog no help in the digging, just lays there watching.

Fun story.
This is the summer that my buddy came with me. We left KP Seneca & moved to Freddy Fritz's ranch, 3 Of us, 2 mules, & about a dozen hounds. This ranch is about 8 miles up north from the Slaughter place. They must have let dad have a horse as we just had the mules. Met Freddy & his wife, but don't really remember them. Do remember a old cowboy that they call "Double Crutch's". He had been thrown off a horse & broke both legs. Don't know how camp gear, food & dog food got there when we went up river ( Blue River ) to n old homestead, house had mostly fallen down. Big field about 4 or 5 acres. Was probably planted when people lived there. Kept the mules in there as normal they went to the far end of the field. In the mornings my buddy & I would go down and race them back to the house. No bridle or saddle used.

River boxed up just above that place & it had been flooding up river. More mud than water going by. Take everything that would hold water & let it sit, then pour off the clear water. Dump the mud & start over.

Dad was hunting alone & nothing was caught while my buddy & were there. We goofed off a lot & explored the area.

One evening when dad started to make dinner he says "come here Bud & I'll show you how to make biscuit's"
Here is how it's done. Take big pan, like a cookie sheet, tilt it up a little at 1 end, dump a bunch of flour & baking powder init. Add some canned milk & stir it up. If it does not look right add a little more , milk, flour or baking powder.

Share this with your friends it does make good biscuit's.

More later,
Jim
 
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Just some normal days - In that you expect something to go wrong - Just don't know what.

Swamp box was not working so good. Pads plugged with dirt & lime. Clean pads, helps for a little while. Check again, not getting water. Pull pump & clean it and oil the 2 bearing that I can get to. Blow out spider, pump end & arm end. Pump sure seems to be working fine, blows a big stream until plugged into spider. After abput an hour & 1/2, lets have a beer & think about this. Solution a new pump. Now working fine.

Its getting down to 64 or 65 at night & up to 105 in the day time. Quite a big spread.

Have see the hawk twice in the last few days. once sitting on the ground. Next was in a tree about 12 feet away. It hopped around for a while then vanished.
dove Pair worked on their nest for a few days. Guess they go the eggs laid, now sitting the nest.

Turkey buzzard still patrolling here, some times fairly high & a couple so low & close the red on its neck can be seen.

Riley & dog staying home a lot more. Riley is a thief, stole cookies out of the truck bed. Did the same in the house, as well as the butter. Dog getting braver comes all the way up the ramp & lays in in the cool coming out where I keep it propped open a little. Even laid just laid just inside the door a couple of times.

Take the lion for a walk. Up at dads place on blue River they had a 1/2 grown lion in a cage. Sammy got a rope on it & we led ( actually it pulled us along. ) across the road & along the hill side. Back across the road & the river. On a real steep bolder strewn hill Sammy got in front, all at once the lion jumped down onto Sammy, the 2 of them went down the hill over each other. At the bottom Sammy went 1 way the lion the other & up a tree. jerked the lion out of the tree & took it back across the river & its cage. Dad turned loose some young hounds to trail the lion. We stood in the yard & could watch the whole hunt from there.

More later
Jim
 
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Just some normal days - In that you expect something to go wrong - Just don't know what.

Swamp box was not working so good. Pads plugged with dirt & lime. Clean pads, helps for a little while. Check again, not getting water. Pull pump & clean it and oil the 2 bearing that I can get to. Blow out spider, pump end & arm end. Pump sure seems to be working fine, blows a big stream until plugged into spider. After abput an hour & 1/2, lets have a beer & think about this. Solution a new pump. Now working fine.

Its getting down to 64 or 65 at night & up to 105 in the day time. Quite a big spread.

Have see the hawk twice in the last few days. once sitting on the ground. Next was in a tree about 12 feet away. It hopped around for a while then vanished.
dove Pair worked on their nest for a few days. Guess they go the eggs laid, now sitting the nest.

Turkey buzzard still patrolling here, some times fairly high & a couple so low & close the red on its neck can be seen.

Riley & dog staying home a lot more. Riley is a thief, stole cookies out of the truck bed. Did the same in the house, as well as the butter. Dog getting braver comes all the way up the ramp & lays in in the cool coming out where I keep it propped open a little. Even laid just laid just inside the door a couple of times.

Take the lion for a walk. Up at dads place on blue River they had a 1/2 grown lion in a cage. Sammy got a rope on it & we led ( actually it pulled us along. ) across the road & along the hill side. Back across the road & the river. On a real steep bolder strewn hill Sammy got in front, all at once the lion jumped down onto Sammy, the 2 of them went down the hill over each other. At the bottom Sammy went 1 way the lion the other & up a tree. jerked the lion out of the tree & took it back across the river & its cage. Dad turned loose some young hounds to trail the lion. We stood in the yard & could watch the whole hunt from there.

More later
Jim

Stupid but what's a swamp box
 
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Evaporative cooler (an air conditioner of sorts that work only with low relative humidity.)
 
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