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dogsandguitars
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| 02/01/2008 12:33 PM |
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And if everybody is gone off, who's working the dogs??
I had fourteen deer in the back pasture this morning. They cadge what hay
the horses leave from out of the manure pile. There's been a lot of
hunting in the woods behind my place, and the deer have been staying up
close. The dogs seem more exasperated by the deer (Yo! I'm a dog! Y'all
suppose to run when ya see me!) then serious about running them.
How is everybody? K.C.
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mcotton
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| 02/01/2008 1:14 PM |
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| Sweltering in the heat downunder, but having said that it looks like a
shower on the way.
Marg
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farmd69
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| 02/01/2008 1:23 PM |
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Alive but busy,
My Boykin who had issue with shredding pigeons seems fine on Ducks, Pheasant and grouse. Apperantly she believes pigeons are for her chewing pleasure...but not always. The poor dog wants more work but I am having trouble getting afield at lunchtime for a quick run. I have seen a very large bobcat working the property, throw in the coyotes and I get a bit nervous with the pup working thick cover. Last February I had a coyote stalk the dogs in real thick cover so now I carry a pistol whenever I go out the back door.
Only had 1 of my free range chickens get killed by a varmit (I think an great horned owl) as the head was gone.
Since the snow cover left the deer and turkeys have quit coming to my standing corn and soybeans (Don't let anyone tell you deer won't eat soybeans once the green is done. It took them a few years and enough was left to reseed itself with a little light disking but now they manage to clean it all up by April and I have to reseed) As of last week I still have some antlered bucks walking around the place.
Will be putting in a 10 acre switchgrass field..... and hopefully expanding it to 20 acres but the seed is $80 an acre. With any luck there will be a market for the stuff in a few years if not it will make terrific pheasant habitat.
They hit natural gas not too far from me and they may start drilling around here in the spring. That would make a very nice supplemental retirement program.
SO all in all except for some retrieving work in the small open water by the cornfield and working a pine ridge for grouse it has been a very quiet month.
The Super Bowl is Sunday! GO Giants beat those Patriots.
ted
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> From: dogsandguitars@earthlink.net
> To: working-gundog@web.whc.net
> Subject: [working-gundog] Anybody home??
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:58:06 -0500
> And if everybody is gone off, who's working the dogs??
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> I had fourteen deer in the back pasture this morning. They cadge what hay
> the horses leave from out of the manure pile. There's been a lot of
> hunting in the woods behind my place, and the deer have been staying up
> close. The dogs seem more exasperated by the deer (Yo! I'm a dog! Y'all
> suppose to run when ya see me!) then serious about running them.
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> How is everybody? K.C.
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jerry
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| 02/01/2008 1:37 PM |
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| Trying to catch up at the office here. I spent 4 days in Delaware
shooting snow geese and had a fantastic time. Of course, things
build up at work every time you take a little time off so you pay
the price!
Also waiting for the ice storm to knock out power...
dogsandguitars@earthlink.net wrote:
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>And if everybody is gone off, who's working the dogs??
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>I had fourteen deer in the back pasture this morning. They cadge what hay
>the horses leave from out of the manure pile. There's been a lot of
>hunting in the woods behind my place, and the deer have been staying up
>close. The dogs seem more exasperated by the deer (Yo! I'm a dog! Y'all
>suppose to run when ya see me!) then serious about running them.
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>How is everybody? K.C.
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jerry
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| 02/01/2008 2:17 PM |
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Ted Stucka wrote:
>The Super Bowl is Sunday! GO Giants beat those Patriots.
>
The Giants will need all the prayers and postive thinking you can muster
going
up against the formidable and unbeaten Patriots.
Go Pats!
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dogsandguitars
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| 02/01/2008 4:36 PM |
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| A natural gas find almost in your dooryard? Thought that was the kind of
thing that only happened to James Dean and Jed Clampett... Would certainly
help you with the cost of switchgrass and soybeans. I do wish you the best
of luck. But then, I remember your worry with the Boykin.. She's handling,
and you and she have been hunting, ducks, pheasants, and grouse?. You're a
happy man already. K.
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dogsandguitars
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| 02/01/2008 4:43 PM |
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| Jerry,
If you're like me it will feel colder in the office with the power out than
it did in the field with the geese coming in! Keep warm. K.C.
> [Original Message]
> From: Jerry
> To:
> Date: 2/1/2008 3:28:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [working-gundog] Anybody home??
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> Trying to catch up at the office here. I spent 4 days in Delaware
> shooting snow geese and had a fantastic time. Of course, things
> build up at work every time you take a little time off so you pay
> the price!
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> Also waiting for the ice storm to knock out power...
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dogsandguitars
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| 02/01/2008 4:57 PM |
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| Heat and showers? You'd feel right at home here, then. This is suppose to
be our cold, dry season. It was 74 and rained again this afternoon. .
There's no worry about sliding on ice; or snow balling up in the dogs'
pads. But there's the mud. The thick, black, stinking kind that has to be
both hosed and scraped off. Everything that passes through leaves tracks
in it - which is nice. The amount of the stuff that works its way into the
house - that's something else again. K.C.
> [Original Message]
> From: Margaret Cotton
> To:
> Date: 2/2/2008 5:04:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [working-gundog] Anybody home??
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> Sweltering in the heat downunder, but having said that it looks like a
> shower on the way.
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> Marg
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craig
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| 02/01/2008 5:10 PM |
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| For most of the week the daytime high temperature has hovered around
-30. Nighttime lows have been in the -40's. Yes, the minus
fourties...celcius. I walked to the mailbox last night and I think
part of my ass fell off.
The only thing keeping me sane is all the plannig for the upcoming
mother of all photo shoots in Europe in March/April. We are going to
see dogs in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Holland and Germany. As
soon as we get back I hope to put my nose to the grindstone once and
for all and finish my book project. Hopefully this frozen wasteland
will be thawed out by then so I can go looking for the piece of my
ass that froze off.
Craig
On 1-Feb-08, at 2:04 PM, Margaret Cotton wrote:
> Sweltering in the heat downunder, but having said that it looks
> like a shower on the way.
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> Marg
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jerry
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| 02/01/2008 6:27 PM |
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| It was 40 degrees F (5C) one afternoon, with a horizontal rain that
could give a polar
bear hypothermia. I was toasty warm. It was 64 degrees F here in the
office today and
I was freezing!
Nothing like 5,000 snow geese swirling overhead and a retriever at your
side anxious
to do some work to keep you warm...
dogsandguitars@earthlink.net wrote:
>Jerry,
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>If you're like me it will feel colder in the office with the power out than
>it did in the field with the geese coming in! Keep warm. K.C.
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soniaskinner
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| 02/02/2008 3:00 AM |
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| > both hosed and scraped off. Everything that passes through leaves tracks
> in it - which is nice. The amount of the stuff that works its way into the
> house - that's something else again. K.C.
Oh the mud, mud and more mud - have just dusted the coffee table, thick with
mud dust, yet was dusted yesterday! Yep, I am a women and we do these
things! Having a Lab makes such a difference, 2 GSP's clean in no time.
Sonia
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robclayau
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| 02/02/2008 2:32 PM |
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| Summer this year is a lot milder than we had last year. Cool enough that
I've been getting up at dawn to run and swim the dogs. Snakes are always
a concern at this time of the year, but so far have only seen 3 and
thankfully they haven't given us any real trouble.
We've had some good summer rains, and the vegetation is in a lot better
shape than last year. With a bit of luck and some follow up rain, we'll
enjoy an excellent quail 2008 quail season.
Rob |
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jmurr
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Southerngundog
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| 02/27/2008 8:22 PM |
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Yep home with flu, be glad to get back with my dogs.
Mo
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rospigan
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| 02/28/2008 1:37 AM |
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We are experiencing the most weird winter during my
lifetime. The temperature have all the time been around or above zero Centigrade
during daytime and we have had no snow at all. Well there has been a very thin
layer for a few hours or days but then it has melted away. Strong winds and rain
and clouds have dominated but now at the end of February the sun has started to
shine more and more. There is no ice on the sea outside our house or on the
entire Baltic sea.
Maud had to go to the mountains last weekend to ski
some and try to find a few grouse with the dogs and her friends dogs.. There
they had very strong winds and snow storms most of the time so the grouse had
flown to the valleys and hide there protected from the worst
weather.
Well, what do you know! As I just look out
from the window I see small white particles flying around in the wind.
Broadminded as I am I first thought: "Gnats already this early?". A more careful
look revealed that they are very small flakes of snow....all hope about the
winter is not lost yet!
Torsti
Borta Med Vindens Kennel "Ask not what your dog can do for you. Ask
what you can do for your dog." www.rospigan.net |
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jmurr
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| 03/02/2008 1:13 PM |
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| I don't think our winter has been so weird here (60N, 151E). Our
weather is very variable from one year to another anyway. I can check
history maybe.
We've had abut 3 meters of snowfall. 10 cm of rain in February.
December averaged -2.2C; January, -5.6C; and February -5.7C. The Low
so far for the winter was in February at about -17C. It is near
freezing now, 10 cm snow over night and some rain. We could get a
LOT more snow before this winter is over.
We've been seeing a very few ptarmigan. That is a bit weird. Dogs
worked a pair the other day near the airport but the birds probably
flushed wild. Maybe the black dog busted them. I was closely
watching the brown dog who was 75m away and didn't actually see the
birds flush. I wouldn't be surprised if the dog flushed the birds -
PLs seem to need regular "reminding." I hope the birds hang around
for a month or so, so I can tend to that chore!
Do you know this site:
http://www.jagareforbundet.se/jagarfilmforum/
There is supposed to be a video of a setter working ptarmigan there
but I haven't found it. My Swedish is nil!
Jere
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maud & Torsti"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [working-gundog] Anybody home??
We are experiencing the most weird winter during my lifetime. The
temperature have all the time been around or above zero Centigrade
during daytime and we have had no snow at all. Well there has been a
very thin layer for a few hours or days but then it has melted away.
Strong winds and rain and clouds have dominated but now at the end of
February the sun has started to shine more and more. There is no ice
on the sea outside our house or on the entire Baltic sea.
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rospigan
MH
Posts:372
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| 03/02/2008 2:07 PM |
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Look för "Fågelhundsträning i Ritsem" and I hope
you will find it.
/Maud
Borta Med Vindens Kennel "Ask not what your dog can do for you. Ask
what you can do for your dog." www.rospigan.net
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 8:58
PM
Subject: Re: [working-gundog] Anybody
home??
I don't think our winter has been so weird here (60N,
151E). Our
weather is very variable from one year to another
anyway. I can check
history maybe.
We've had abut 3 meters of
snowfall. 10 cm of rain in February.
December averaged -2.2C; January,
-5.6C; and February -5.7C. The Low
so far for the winter was in
February at about -17C. It is near
freezing now, 10 cm snow
over night and some rain. We could get a
LOT more snow before this
winter is over.
We've been seeing a very few ptarmigan. That is a
bit weird. Dogs
worked a pair the other day near the airport but the
birds probably
flushed wild. Maybe the black dog busted them. I
was closely
watching the brown dog who was 75m away and didn't actually see
the
birds flush. I wouldn't be surprised if the dog flushed the birds
-
PLs seem to need regular "reminding." I hope the birds hang
around
for a month or so, so I can tend to that chore!
Do you know
this site:
http://www.jagareforbundet.se/jagarfilmforum/
There
is supposed to be a video of a setter working ptarmigan there
but I haven't
found it. My Swedish is nil!
Jere
----- Original Message
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From: "Maud & Torsti" <rospigan@brevet.nu>
To: <working-gundog@web.whc.net>
Sent:
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [working-gundog] Anybody
home??
We are experiencing the most weird winter during my
lifetime. The
temperature have all the time been around or above zero
Centigrade
during daytime and we have had no snow at all. Well there has
been a
very thin layer for a few hours or days but then it has melted
away.
Strong winds and rain and clouds have dominated but now at the end
of
February the sun has started to shine more and more. There is no
ice
on the sea outside our house or on the entire Baltic
sea.
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