Thanks Bob. I really liked that one too. She's a great pup...
maybe a little wearing for an old dude, but she'll keep me active.
Rick
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Jim (Reading from the bottom up I guess.) I found out I've got a
> spot on my
>
> right eye - cataract, I guess - I've switched to focusing with the other
> eye and it seems
>
> to me to make a world of difference. Hard on the nose, tho. ;o)
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Rick Beckrich <rbeckrich@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> That's sad, Chuck. I had the same thing happen to a white oak we had been
>> nurturing.
>>
>> I put one of our home built tomato cages - a cylinder 0f 4" X 4" wire
>> fencing about 14"
>>
>> in diameter and 48" tall - around it, and two years later its growing big
>> and tall.
>>
>> There's no hope for the tulips they chomp though.
>>
>> Only after a snow did we relize how close to the hous they come.. and how
>> many come!
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
>> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> If I'd have had a gun yesterday I'd have blasted the doe that was in our
>>> back yard. There is a small herd of about a dozen deer that are
>>> frequently outside our fence in back in the neighbor's yard.
>>>
>>> Yesterday morning at about 5am I noted a single doe on our side of the
>>> fence calmly chomping on some wild greenery growing along the fence. It
>>> was only later in the day that I discovered she had also neatly lopped
>>> off the tops of two maple seedlings in the middle of the yard that I
>>> have been nursing along since they first sprouted in spring of 2011.
>>> They just happened to sprout where my wife and I had determined we
>>> needed a large shade tree. I built a little wall of rocks to surround
>>> them and protect them from the lawn mower. I've watered and fertilized
>>> them and plucked the grass from around them to give them every chance to
>>> grow. They were very slow to start but a few weeks ago they started
>>> producing some very nice (and apparently tasty) leaves. Yesterday...
>>> chomp, chomp... both had all their leaves bitten off at about 8" above
>>> ground level. Arggh!
>>>
>>> The larger one still has two tiny leaf buds each less than the size of a
>>> BB. I still have hope it will survive.
>>>
>>> Venison spiedies anyone?
>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiedie>
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/15/2012 7:39 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
>>> > Last summer's twins all grown up. Taken this afternoon.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=183275&ppuser=20714
>>> >
>>> > http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=183274
>>> >
>>> > Their mom has at least one new one that I caught a glimpse of this
>>> morning... That's what got to thinking
>>> >
>>> > I should get the big "gun" set up... Glad I did.
>>> >
>>> > Hopefully, we'll get some spotted fawn shots soon.
>>> >
>>> > Rick
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