This is amazing... 100,000 stars..



Note: I opened it in firefox and it worked good:







Click on the LINK HERE... 

wait for it to load then use the slide bar on the right to scroll in and out.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

"Small Town (County)" Christmas Eve Night/Santa Tracking

Living in a rural laid-back setting has many benefits. One that I, many other adults, and children in our area enjoy is listening to the "Santa reports" on Christmas Eve Night and getting to see the reaction of "younguns". Three fourths of the small rural county in which I live is owned by the USDA (National Forest Service). There are five small towns with a total population of less than 24,000. The largest town has less than 4,000 people. The next in line is the county seat and it has just over a thousand people. In this county there might be six deputies and the sheriff along with a probably less than 20 "municipal policemen" total. There isn't a lot of crime and we have good lawmen for the most part. In fact it is so laid back on most Christmas Eve Nights that these lawmen, along with Sheriff's dispatch have time to pass along "Santa reports" to all the children who might be listening on scanners, volunteer FD radios, etc. This isn't one of the better sound bytes, but it is a pretty generic sample from Monday night. 





Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Nice Buck



My neighbors son killed this nice  buck over the Christmas weekend. I don't yet know what it scored or weighed, but will update this post when I do find out. I have hunted many years with this boy's father and have watched him grow into a fine hunter of turkey and deer. They have some local land leased and do an excellent job managing it as you can see in this photo.





Monday, December 24, 2018

MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL....



   Thanks to all of you that stop by, comment and send along blog fodder.

Jeffery and I would like to wish you all a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and we hope

that all of you, naughty or nice, have a safe and happy holiday no matter how you decide to 

enjoy it.

Irish












 

Christmas Dinner Has Gone To The Dogs....




They look better behaved than most families!! :)

H/t to Russ














A Fellow Blogger Has Passed Away..




  Sarge, over at "A Herd of Turtles", passed away on Friday night. 

His son posted the news on the blog HERE<<

 Godspeed Sarge.