Gathering

I am back from hunting and I have decided that maybe I could excel more at gathering. I wasn't ever very good at picking berries but I always seemed to find them and eat them. I am also pretty good at picking fruit and eating it. I will continue to hunt just to get out and have a good time hiking around the mountains and taking my rifle for a walk but I may have to start gathering if I am going to provide for the family. I took the deer to the processesors today and they had a little cartoon that broke down the cost of a deer. I think we are paying about $100/pound for meat. The good thing is that most deer meat isn't all that tasty unless you add pork fat to it. There goes the idea that wild game is healthier.

We had a good time and got to see a lot of animals. Most of them weren't legal to shoot. We saw a black wolf yesterday. We knew no one would believe us but we were 100% sure it was a black wolf. We stopped by the DOW office to tell them about it and they did believe it. They saw possibly the same one a year earlier and it was the first wolf sighting in the state. I guess this makes the second because they hadn't seen another one until now. I know what all of you are thinking right now and remember, this was hunting so there aren't any fish stories.

We also saw a huge bull moose with a cow and calf. They really stood out because they were as black as the angus cows that were further down the road. And then we had a stupid fox in our camp. The boys thought it was really cool and I guess I did too at first. I wasn't too excited when I woke up the next morning and he had eaten part of the deer. I chased him, threw sticks and him and tried everything else to keep him away. People must have been feeding him.

This concludes the boring hunting trip log.