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Hoping tomorrow won't be as busy as it was on Saturday. With the interview my father gave on the radio on Friday and the interview in the newspaper on Saturday about the phasing out of the incandescent lightbulb it was more than busy. We had over a 100 customers (a number we would be very happy with on a Saturday in December) and almost twice the turnover of a Saturday in December. No matter how good those numbers are for a Saturday in September I don't think my feet can take another day like that so soon.
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Hunting is absolutely necessary, since we long ago killed off most of the natural predators, and it's the only way to keep the deer population in check. A friend lives in rural PA, and was offering me a side of venison a while back - he knows a local who will butcher to order. I have no place to store or good way to prepare it, so I had to decline. Buffalo meat (in the form of Buffalo burgers) is fairly common in restaurants. Boar is less so, though a friend mentioned that they are now paying bounties on wild boar in Texas. Once again, the natural predators have largely been eliminated, and farms are ready sources of food for those in the wild. I suspect I could find boar on the menu there if I went to the right places. Quote:
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The real problem is FOOD. The growth of civilization and expansion of cities, towns, and farms, have drastically reduced to available food supply for the deer population. Even a small farm will remove the available food for dozens of deer. Imagine what putting in a town did! There just isn't enough food to feed and keep healthy all the deer, and as soon as one gets sick, dozens get sick, and the herd thins out drastically. For a while in the 1800's, clear-cutting timber impacted the herd's ability to migrate from food lot to food lot during winter. With the spread of cities and towns, roads cut off deer migration trails. Deer won't even attempt to walk through snow that touches its breast, so even if there is a food supply 20 yards away, the deer will starve to death before trying to cross the snow. New laws passed in most states now require 50-100 yard wide forest strips to be left between lumbering sites so the deer can travel under forest canopy and not encounter such deep snow. 'Winter Kill," from starvation, the factor that most affects the deer herd has dropped tremendously since the new laws were put into effect. In the early Spring, Fish&Game biologists go to deer feed lots and look at the femur bones of dead deer, cracking them open to examine the color of the bone marrow. From this color tracking, they can tell if the deer died of malnutrition or from some other cause. I have quite a few photos that I took for VT. Fish&Game of these feedlot examinations. Quote:
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Right now it's all work and no play (apart from quick MR forays, naturally). And I wish Stitchawl would stop talking about food. I think you are obsessing about that which you cannot have . |
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So mentioning that I had three double stacked Chocolate and Vanilla Oreos for a snack would be bad? I am having them with a nice Pu-erh
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MODS.... Am I allow to call people bad names here? No? Oh... OK. More than one way to skin a cat... ProfCrash, a few days ago I went to the Chinatown district of Kobe and stocked up on supplies. Yesterday I went to the computer district in Osaka and stocked up on supplies (It's common in Japan for similar stores to all be in one area rather than spaced out around different neighborhoods. Makes no sense to me re:competition, but that how they like it.) Today I'm going to the VOODOO district.... Stitchawl |
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Hey, you talked about going to a store dedicated solely to Oolong and Pu-erh knowing ow jealous I would be. I got Oreos today. We are even.
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the stores would like a customer like me who cannot tell one tea from the others, but still love it anyway
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09-05-2012, 10:01 AM | #34455 |
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Today's root canal treatment was easy and quick compared to the other two I had. The most painful was the anaesthetic injection and the clamp thingy which dug into my gums. The anaesthetic is now wearing off and the only thing that's sore my jaw and the area of injection. Knocking on wood that it stays that way.
I also asked how much it is going to cost me and it was less expensive than I thought it would be so I can get the tv for in my bedroom on Monday as planned. |
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