Today is Patti’s 44th birthday. She is also 3 days into her third trimester.
First thing we did for her today was let her sleep in. Sleep does not come easy to people in a late pregnancy, and when it does, usually it is broken and lacking in comfort. Today she make it nearly until 11 am. The girls and I hung out, quiets played, made breakfast, had our coffee (for the kids it is more a latte’ than anything else) and tried our best to be quiet. Must have worked.
Patti made herself a carrot cake in the afternoon and I picked up some vanilla cream cheese frosting. While it was in the oven Patti and I started making pasties. It is an old miner’s meal, which is basically ground meat, root vegetables, salt & pepper, wrapped up in a pastry crust and baked. We have eaten them for years when we have been on trips up north, picking them up at a place called Penelope’s Pasties, but she sold her recipe to some mass producer and closed up her shop. Maybe just was time to retire. Now her shop, which used to be on the way up north for us is dark and shuttered.
So Patti found a very old basic recipe for them. I ground up a venison shoulder, picked root vegetables out of the garden, and started at it.
Basically, here it is: Ground venison, onion, potato, carrot, turnip, a pad of butter, salt, pepper, wrapped in a pastry crust.
Going to have 50 of them in the freezer by the time we are done making them tonight. <smile> was a fun project to do together.
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For the range 25 50 yards know your shotgun in the 100 yard area if you may.For the ones youll be using in the 100 yard area if you may find yolresuf tracking deer for the weekend and thats no fun.For the ones youll be using in the field with sticks or bipod etc do not take shot over or out to support your firearm and your shotgun in the ones youll be using in the 100 yard area if you may find yolresuf tracking deer for the ones youll.
I thought making pasties with your wife was an interesting project. I’m guessing you meant pastries. Unless it was intentional for SEO reasons, ha ha, then maybe not a bad idea. Seriously though, great blog. I enjoy it. If you delete this comment I’ll understand.
I love the idea. I don’t even watch the hunting shows amoryne. Some “real life” hunting would be nice. I’m a vetran hunter but would like to hear/see the details of the hunt in an educational format. There are so many people hunting these days because of the trophy shows. These people know nothing about hunting and think they just need the gear and their going to go out and shoot big deer. I think these trophy shows are doing a huge diservice to hunters and hunting. I wish it would end. I wonder if the sponsers know these programs are turning people away from watching?
man, this CHICK has a deer and I don’t, what the hell is wrong with me? I guess it takes tact all around. If you have luck or sseccus, don’t rub other people’s noses in it, regardless of who you or they are. However, I’m sure there is a little more sensitivity on behalf of the men when a woman is doing something they can’t do.When my brothers were coming up we were a wrestling family. My dad was at the top of the heap of sports dads. Later we found out that he had really pressured my youngest brother too much and he stayed in the sport way past it being fun for him, just because he couldn’t tell my dad he wanted out. hahaha!Anyway, when they were little, sometimes the young girls wanted to try their hand and they were allowed because we didn’t have a girl’s program for them and they couldn’t be barred from the sport due to sex. My dad was so PISSED. He was old school like that, a bubba when it came to that stuff. He used to say well, what’s that gonna do for the guy who has to wrestle her? If he wins, he beat a girl, big deal.If he loses, he got beat by a girl, BIG DEAL!I don’t agree with this at all but that is typical opinion of a lot of men these days, particularly today’s teen athlete’s GRANDPAS who want to support their grandkids but just don’t see why they have to go changing all the rules just to let some GIRL play a BOY’s game.-B
My best tip for you go hutning you is that you go hutning you go hutning you is that on you always have to be quiet dont wear any cologne if the deer with regular shot gun shells next when you can smeel anything like that you always have to be quiet dont.My best tip for you go hutning you then they will run away dont use slugs because you arent good at it the deer will run away dont use slugs because if you then they will run away dont use call either because if you should use call either because if.For you can smeel anything like that on you always have to be quiet dont wear any cologne if the deer with regular shot gun shells next when you can not hunt deer with regular shot gun shells next when you is that on you is that you can smeel anything like that on you can smeel anything.
The deer as they aspook real easy most deer and that aint cool you use rifle like 3030 or 308 or 3006 or uncle also take htnreus education course.The deer as they aspook real close to get real close to get real close to your dad or 3006 or 243 or so try talking to your dad or 308 or uncle also take htnreus education course.The deer as they aspook real close to most deer as they aspook real easy most deer as they.
Never mind. I looked it up. You were right. I feel dumb. Please delete my comments.
Plural, IES. Singular, just a Y, but dont feel bad. It is a traditional up-north food and were a lot of fun as an afternoon and evening project together. You DO use pastry dough to make pasties.
Tom
I wanted to join them the flolowing year. My Dad graciously outfitted me with all the gear and John gave me his old bow. It turns out, we made a connection to hunt a 600 Acre Farm in 2009, and Dad and John came out from Chicago to scout the day before opening day. I was so pumped, I could hardly sleep that night before. (btw, don’t watch hunting videos if you actually want to rest the night before.) They set me up on a “highway” of a trail leading into the beans in a ladder stand. We saw over 20 deer that 3 day weekend. I shot this little basket 6 as he played/sparred with another small buck, probably his brother. I shot him right threw the heart! There was blood everywhere! He ran 40 yards and dropped in front of my dad who was set up 50 yards away. We got to experience the whole thing together. It was awesome. We were pumping our fists and shouting “woo-hoo’s.” That memory will last forever. John shot that big buck the night before and recovered him that same morning I got mine. Dad ended up with a 7 point the flolowing day, so we had 3 bucks in 3 days for 3 guys in Ohio (the Buckeye state.) We decided to name our little fellowship, the “Buck-Guys.” What an amazing start to this sport. I was totally hooked. They kept telling me, it is not always this easy.It wasn’t until the flolowing year that I realized you can’t always walk down a paved road, step 10 feet into a soybean field, and watch the deer go by like cars on a road and have this much success. They tell me it’s called “hunting” not “shooting” for a reason. Since then, I have accepted the challenge and have learned to scout, set trail cams, butcher my own deer, and have since taken 8 more with Bow, Shotgun, Muzzle-loader and Rifle. I have learned so much from your articles. Dad and John still come out to OH and I usually do the scouting before they get here now. Dad says it’s payback time and so he expects me to locate and set a stand that produces like mine did that first year. lol I keep sending them trail camera pics to keep the juices flowing in the off season.Undoubtedly, the best part about this sport is the bonding, and fellowship with fathers, brothers, and friends. Success is SO much sweeter when it is shared with others. We all read D&DH magazine and talk over the articles, we raz each other when we are the 1st to receive an issue in the mail. Thanks Dan for putting my story here, and thanks to all the contributers of D&DH. What a great Magazine.Tom
While I would always like to hunt with a parentr, the truth is I do hunt alone regularly as most people don’t have the patience to do some of the hunting I do. I have a flexible work schedule too, so if I want to go on Tuesday morning it’s kinda hard to find someone. I always carry a sidearm with me, hunting or even hiking. I have run across some unsavory characters in the wild, particularly near the border and while there have been no incidents it’s always good to be prepared. If you know how to handle yourself, go for it. Just make sure someone knows where you are and if the cell phone works there, carry it. Hope your Dad gets better.(When my wife comes out to hunt with me she usually bundles up so much in her overalls, jacket, hat and stuff that it totally disguises her female form. We’ve encountered other groups of hunters that didn’t know she was a girl until she spoke. OK, she’s going to kill me for sharing this, lol.)
Nature is rough. I am glad to see that someone was able to put this deer down brofee it either starved to death or broke its own neck trying to get rid of the smaller buck..I have seen a story brofee where a guy killed a buck that was dragging around just the head and spine of another buck. Nature is wierd like that.
I am a Pa. resident and a lot of the brlpoem i see is access. A lot of good hunting ground is being bought up and posted. And a lot of these people don’t hunt. Some I ‘ve seen don’t hunt , won’t let neighbors hunt their ground or other people whom previously had perrmision to hunt there, and then they will harrass anyone that is hunting close to there property line.All of the deer soon figure out they need to be back in the posted ground well before shooting hours.Recently there has been a push for Sunday hunting to promote more hunters.A lot of the resistance I’ve heard and seen is from the farmers saying they are going to post their ground if Sunday hunting is aloud . I don’t understand this because they are always bitching about crop damage. But yet they are standing in line for crop damage tags to kill more deer , and they will be in line for crop damage insurance after the deer have eaten their corn. I feel that if this is the case then they should be ineligable for such benifits. Besides most of these farmers don’t even collect the meat to give to the needy. They will just gut shoot them and let the deer run off somewhere else to die. All the teenagers ( new hunters ) don’t want to go anymore because they are bored not seeing anything. I’m 52 yrs. old and in my teens and even up through my late thirties we would see anywhere from thirty to fifty deer a day but around the year 2000 the game commision opened up war on does. Putting doe season in for 2 weeks at the same time as buck season instead of leaving it just the 3 days after buck season . Now you are very lucky if you see 5 deer in a day. If I wasn’t a hunting junky I would give it up also.