And better yet, hunting boots.
A good follow, if you’re on Facebook, is National Snakebite Support. I’ve learned a lot from it. It’s mostly useless knowledge due to where I live, but still quite interesting.
About 70% of the bites in that study were from nonvenomous snakes. I wonder what the stats on bite location would have been if they separated it by venomous vs non venomous?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711762/
It may have been a stretch for me to say the VAST majority of snakebites occur on the lower body, but in this study of 450 snake bites in North America, the majority definitely were. There’s a lot of interesting information in it. That said...
My season opened yesterday. I couldn’t take off work, but after an early dinner I told the kids to grab their stuff, we’re going turkey hunting. An hour in we saw two toms come over a hill a few hundred yards away. It took a half hour of calling but they eventually made it to our decoys and only...
Seeing the first signs of life from the asparagus crowns I planted a few weeks ago. Now I just need to be patient for a couple more years.
After checking in the garden we ate a quick meal and I told the kids to throw on their tick-treated clothes, we’re going turkey hunting. I popped up the...
My daughter and I got most of ours in on Sunday. We still need to do beets, peppers, tomatoes, and watermelon as things warm up. Sweet corn rows will be staggered 10 days apart. A major bonus is that morels have been popping up all around the garden. Enough for a few feasts.
Planted asparagus crowns a few weeks ago. I’m crossing my fingers for those but not getting my hopes up.
I was hoping to do a prescribed burn tonight but it looks like I’ll be short on help so I think it’ll be time for my daughter and I to get some seeds in the ground in our garden. I have...
I married a horse girl. She’s none of those things but, nevertheless, your warning should be heeded. After working all day today, I get to go home and haul horse crap. Next weekend I get to spend the equivalent of a NR elk tag on hay. I get to load it on a trailer, haul it, unload it, and stack...
My daughter (1st grade) made a list of the vegetables we’ll be planting and crossed them off as I laid them out on my plan. About 5 hours working this morning and I had the tiller running great. Tilled up the garden this afternoon. I’m really happy with the soil I found. I’ll till in some old...
I spend a ton of time in northern MN where the wolf population is probably more dense than anywhere else in the country. It’s a better place because of it. Neat to see them expanding into their traditional range in other areas, as well.
For the last year, every time my daughter finds a seed of any type in her food, she goes and digs a hole in my new lawn to plant it. I caved a few weeks ago and agreed to start a garden for her, if for anything just to keep her from destroying my yard. I’m currently resurrecting an old tiller...