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Life is Good (Up in The Northwest)
cowboy:
I love days like that Frank, gives ya time to unwind. But I usually get dressed ;D.
Sparrow:
Cowboy Getting dressed up here right now means putting on the long johns,wool socks and I can't stay in the house dressed like that,Margie Anne likes it about 68 degree's in here in the cold season's,so we wear what we call our comfy's,polar fleece pant's,long sleeved t-shirt,cotton socks otherwise you'll broil in your outside clothes. 25 days outa 30 you wear rubber boots(X-tra tuff's) outside,(we call them Alaska tennis shoes) Raining today again, can't wait to get down south and out of the rain for a couple of months.When I hunt,I wear clothes that I can hunt in in the rain or wet snow and not get cold,or sweaty,under armour and micro-fleece stuff Yep,I do love to hunt in the snow Pappy,I like to track and doing it in the snow really let's you see what the critters are up to. On sat. Margie Anne and I saw the tracks of otters,pine marten,red squirrel,deer and innumerable birds. We did'nt see any brown bear tracks,makes me believe they are in the dens a little early this year,which usually means we're going to have an early and usually long snowy winter.What few deer we have left after the winter of "06/"07{We lost 80 to 90 percnt of the herd locally) aren't recovering too good,last winter was'nt close to mild either. Will probably hunt deer on prince of wales island next year for deer,unless we get a moose or a couple of caribou next sept.Then I will go hunt a buck just to get out of the house and keep my skills's up. Frank
Sparrow:
Well , We made it to Washington state last Fri. went over to Puyallup and hung out with the knapping demo guys at the rock show Fri. afternoon.What a great bunch of guys. Went back on sat.(This was my first knap-in ! ) Met David (D.Tiller) And banged on some rocks. Learned some technique for BIG spalling and ishi stick 101.Jim gave me a copper bopper and I got to glean the chip piles and scored some major arrow head material,Dacite (My favorite) All but ready for pressure flaking (My strong suite) What a great time.Would have liked to sit in all weekend but had to get my wife over to Tri-Cities to see her grandbaby.Sat in a goose pit yesterday afternoon and have four geese for meat and primaries. Ya Hoo !
Might be a deer hunt this week.
The leaves are just starting to fall good here.Beautiful. Frank
D. Tiller:
It was good meeting ya Frank. Hope you can make it down this way for more knapp Inns. Did you get together with Keenan and Dave Cheney? Now we need to get you to the Glass Buttes at the end of March. Now thats a knapp Inn. Make sure you bring you long Johns and shorts. Never can tell what the weather will bring then. One minute its 70 and sunny the next its 25 and snowing!
Keenan:
Hey Frank are you on your way over here? Hope we didn't miss you coming through ???
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