Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Pig Hunting Anyone?

Back to my normal self now....marriage resuming, now we have "rednecks in full swing". Thursday my husband took daughter #1 pig hunting. He came back all excited, "Matt's getting ready to cut the rice and there are pig tracks everywhere." I'm thinking "GREAT! Now we're going to guns and bullets instead of fishing poles and plastic worms for affection." So on Friday he purchased a deer feeder to place on the farm to attract the stupid creatures so he can ambush them. This is not my idea of hunting. Anyway, not only did I help him place the feeder, but I helped him chain it to the tree (not effectively). It's a barrell on legs and we wrapped a chain around the barrell. All anyone that really wanted it would have to do is take the legs off and it would have dropped right to the ground and they could have 1 deer feeder free of charge (minus the clear conscience). So, I made a suggestion. You see, the barrell is made out of plastic resin. So I suggested cutting slots in opposite sides of the barrell and running the chain through the barrell so that if someone wanted it, they would have to bring bolt cutters or ruin the thing to get it off the tree. My daddy is a genius when it comes to "fixin' things" without the proper equipment, and evidently, some of those genes were given to me. My husband told all of his friends how I diminished the chances of his feeder getting stolen. We hunted that night and heard several pigs, but never saw any. Saturday night we went and played pool (reprieve from pig hunting). Sunday, he went back and finally struck gold. He got a big sow that weighed around 160 pounds according to him. He called to tell me he couldn't move her by herself. I don't know if he expected me to come out there at 9 at night to help him or what, but I had to work the next day, so it wasn't happening. Instead he called a couple of friends to come help and in exchange took them hunting Monday night. I think 4 out of 5 days of pig hunting is enough for a while, how about you? But on the positive side, we have fresh wild pork now. Anyone for a barbecue?

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