Cityfied

[oneshot]

Got an EMail that strong winds went through where our Cabin is by Warsaw,that I might want to check it.Got up there it was fine.

Got home I was out cleaning up around the house and all the neighbors were watching me.They was watching me clean Carp the other day.

Went up to my Sons,told him I'm going to plant Cedars all around where people won't be watching my every move.Then was talking about a fire that went through couple years ago burnt bunch of houses.I told him I just didn't understand how it got so out of control because there is so many old roads to build Back Fires.

Dad your dealing with a whole different type of people.They are probably already tripping on you.They hire everything done,much less have their wife working on vehicles or cleaning Game.Oh and they don't like people killing their yard critters,one of my neighbors got upset because someone killed all her Foxes He told me you want neighbors over there clean a Wild Hog in the yard.

As far as the fire they have Professional Firefighters now,they don't build Back fires because if they should and it gets out of control it's their baby,no matter how many houses burn.They don't even use the Dozer anymore cutting Fire Lines because people don't want it knocking out their trees no matter that their going to lose them anyway because of fire.He told me the only way that fire was put out was because the old people in the area built Back Fires and stopped it.

He told me not to let these people get to me because he is sure I'm already blowing their minds.

oneshot

[Al Agnew]

I don't know which is worse, the citified people who don't have a clue about the realities of living in the country, or the country people who do stuff just because their granddaddy did it that way, and don't have a clue about how it affects the ecological balance.

And...that's painting with far too broad a brush, both ways. There are plenty of city people AND country people who know and care.

[grizzly]

So long as you were taking foxes during the season then I wouldn't bother with worrying about the neighbors. BTW, just out of curiosity, has anyone seen a badger in MO? The MDC lists them on their website for hunting/trapping. I never knew that we had badgers here.

Sam

[fishinwrench]

I had a badger come in on me while bowhunting a persimmon patch in Camden co. many years ago and I had no idea WTF it was..... I described it as a groundhog/sloth hybrid to my buddies who accused me of being stoned.

Then one day I saw a taxidermy'ed one in a gun shop and immediately knew that I hadn't had a flashback after all. I'd say that seeing one in Mo. is very rare.

I'll confess that I did indeed draw on it and was a micro-second from launching a broadhead at it, but I'm glad now that I didn't.

[laker67]

I was told of one being trapped in morgan county near the amish community. Can't think of that little town outside of versailles. I also have first hand knowledge of one in cole county. It lived amongst the city folks on lincoln university campus.

[Feathers and Fins]

Al, I have a saying; " You are only as stupid as the part of the country you are from " Most people don't get that lol.

People who were born and raised in the country know the country but are lost to the ways of the city and the big city might as well be Mars to them. City people are the same way to the country.

If a City person moves to the country they try and change it to the city more often then not.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Got an EMail that strong winds went through where our Cabin is by Warsaw,that I might want to check it.Got up there it was fine.

Got home I was out cleaning up around the house and all the neighbors were watching me.They was watching me clean Carp the other day.

How did you know they were watching you if you weren't watching them?

Personally I would never plant Cedars. They very invasive.

I had a badger come in on me while bowhunting a persimmon patch in Camden co. many years ago and I had no idea WTF it was..... I described it as a groundhog/sloth hybrid to my buddies who accused me of being stoned.

Then one day I saw a taxidermy'ed one in a gun shop and immediately knew that I hadn't had a flashback after all. I'd say that seeing one in Mo. is very rare.

I'll confess that I did indeed draw on it and was a micro-second from launching a broadhead at it, but I'm glad now that I didn't.

I have seen a couple of them in Missouri. Dad trapped one when I was a kid. We were really surpised. Especially since it was not anywhere near badger type country.

One other time near the Barton - Vernon county line I was lucky enough to have the wife and kids with me while driving down a dirt road and there was one at the edge of a corn field. We stopped and watched him for quite awile.

[mic]

Oneshot, I grew up a teacher's kid in a farm town so I had a little of both. However, I will remind you... If everyone had 20 acres and lived off the land, there would be no land and nothing to live on. So keep that in mind next you go WTF to us townies

[fishinwrench]

"If everyone lived off the land" there'd be alot fewer of "us".. Like only as many as "the land" could sustain.....which would likely solve every problem that has ever been discussed here, and elsewhere.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I don't know which is worse, the citified people who don't have a clue about the realities of living in the country, or the country people who do stuff just because their granddaddy did it that way, and don't have a clue about how it affects the ecological balance.

And...that's painting with far too broad a brush, both ways. There are plenty of city people AND country people who know and care.

Well put.

I saw what I thought was a very small badger roadkill recently. I didn't go back and confirm it, but I got a good look at the markings. Never seen one here with that exception.

I have to ask though, why would they kill all the fox?