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Actually, it would eat about anything that moved. Did throw other things in there. Back then 40 years ago mice and hamsters were pretty cheap. One meal a week kept him happy. That and he grew fast enough.

My projectile goes KerWhop! 🤣

Today's dish through pictures. As simple as dick and Jane. See squirrel dead, See squirrel dressed,rinsed and patted dry, See squirrel squirrel browning in Olive oil, VID_20250826_130327164.mp4 See splatter screen keeping me from getting splattered, . Don't see me pulling browned squirrel out and setting aside, See onions browning in the same olive oil, Then after browning onions see me add a whole head of garlic cloves and some sliced hot peppers (note add more because we couldn't detect heat or flavor). See me saute with onions for a couple minutes. See me nestle the browned squirrel in the Dutch oven with a couple bay leaves, Imagine me simmering with the lid on for two hours or until fork tender, Imagine me dumping in frozen peas and letting them warm a bit, See Pat plate this up with some mashed potatoes, See me make this and a second helping disappear except for a pile of bones, Today's dish story over 🙂.

Nothing wrong with that. Speaking of ugly Pat made us a Big giant baked potato each last night. I mean big and loaded. Yes there is a split potato from the trager pellet grill under that mess. We could only eat half of our plate each. It was good though and for breakfast I had my other half this morning. Adding to that I will be eating Pat's other half in the morning.

51 degrees when I pulled out the driveway to a patch of walnut trees on a neighbor's farm. There is a picnic table there with scattered walnut trees around. As the sun came up the squirrel began to move. I found out quickly they were only going to one specific tree to grab a walnut and take off back to bigger timber to start cutting that hard shell. A sound once you hear it you never forget that sound. From that table I would key in on that sound and begin to stalk and find out where it was coming from. Thick enough underbrush I was kinda noisy. Sometimes my quarry would stay still cutting that nut and sometimes he or she would move off trying to hide again. I seen five and got four. Quite morning you could hear things in the distance for miles . I rate this a high quality morning. You could even see you breath while exhaling. Blessing for the month of August. Have I told you how much I like to hunt squirrel with the air rifle? More Pictures of the meal prep on what's cooking.

We had a Savannah monitor for a few years. Little guy when we bought him. Had to feed him small mice. He grew and got bigger. No more mice and next thing available were Teddy Bear hamsters that were still sold at Walmart. Toss one of those in this cage (aquarium) and he was on it pronto. Those hamsters would scream as he grabbed them. Too big for his cage he would stand against the side and push off the lid and weight on the top did not work. We lived in a small trailer and every week the hunt was on for jim the lizard. He got stronger and was hard to handle. Time to sell him back to the pet store. He was pretty cool to have for a pet. Forgot to mention he liked to hide under the kitchen stove. Right where we put the glue traps for mice. It was a pain to get him out of those and cleaned up. 😆

That deserves a dang.

Good shot John!

Wow Daryk! Good fish and happy birthday to all of the tribe.

Yes less crowded.

No out of the area for a few days.

Pat and I take this as an insult.

Yessir. IMO bees have a better chance learning to deal with mites.

Amen, Treatment free for me also. Yes do loose a hive or three. Just part of it.

I do!

A bunch alive lurking around the house. Some in my leg hold traps, some in my sights predator calling. One get a squirrel at our bird feeders and on right behind the house get a rabbit ten yards out the back window. I like them.

We have. To add to that Travis was asking how I made the one I gave him many moons ago. It hit me then I did a step by step.

Me too Ness.

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Big mepps 😆 in ponds right after ice out.

I don't like them and they can give a nasty bite liquifing the area but sometimes leave them alone because they a good at other pest control. When I put out bee frames in the fall for The bees to clean out the assisan bugs are all over the frames catching bees and eating them. I do then knock them off on the ground a smash them.

Nice! Pat and I have been eating bunches of sweet corn the farmer neighbor friend plants and lets folks pick. Nothing that long but fat ears, do fat ears count? Now to the Caprise salad. that is what we had for supper tonight except a giant one in big bowls. Tell the misses Pat just pitched all in layers and was not eye candy like Kathys plating.

Good deal for the hearing impaired. As I nod my head 😂.

Pork chops are yummy!

I never said we should camp or trespass on private property just float through. There are places on larger rivers where you can camp. A big no on launching without permission through private property.