Oh so much has happened since the last time I posted. I apologize to our followers for my lack of updates. But as we know life moves so quickly and we are all just struggeling to keep up and make sense of it all. Speaking of "followers," I am not sure what to call you. I don't care for the term "followers," so I'll take a cue from "Stop podcasting yourself" and have now retermed you all as "bumpers." So thanks for the interest and reading this, you good looking "bumpers."
I spent almost two weeks hunting this year. One week deer hunting and a half week elk hunting. The first week was prety eventful with a mule doe and a whitetail doe easing off into the white light after a sharp report from my ol' 130grain .270 bullet. First one went down on opening morning while I was extremely hung over. About a 260yd shot right through the heart, which I was pretty proud of considering my mind-numbing condition. The whitetail was shot from the same stand, but was only a 160ish-yd shot. It was a fast off-hand shot, so I was pretty happy with it. I passed up on some smaller mule bucks. I could have also shot a doe with my A tag where we hunt, but I was chasing that trophy. I did see a big ol' hoss tending his harem of 22 mule does, but couldn't get on him. Also saw a drop tine mule buck the final morning but could get a shot off on him.
I also spent a few days hunting elk with my college buddy Brian and Teal at our secret honey hole. Brian and I scouted out the area for a few days and then Teal showed up. Her first morning hunting we both managed to put down a cow elk within 10minutes of each other. We were done shooting by 9am and finally had everything packed out in quarters by 4:15. It was a long day for sure. So I have a good amount of meat for the year. I have been suprised by how tender the elk burger is! Having left my A tag unfilled, the hunting season ended pretty well. I'm satisfied with it all and am happy the butchering is done.
While I was gone Cougar got going on finishing up some drywall in the kitchen. So the kitchen is kinda torn apart and more cramped than usual, but it's looking like it'll finish up nicely.
Recently, I dug a ditch to run a electrical line to the garage. Let me recount a conversation I had with Cougs-McGoogs before hand.
Eric: "So you want the ditch running here, along the cement?"
Cougar: "Yes"
Eric: "How deep?"
Cougar: "not deep, just a few inches"
Eric: "just deep enough we won't hit it with a mower or something"
Cougar: "yeah"
Eric: "Is there any lines under here? like gas?"
Cougar: "No, it comes in from the road, not the alley"
Eric: "You sure"
Cougar: "Yep"
Later on he changed his mind to 18" deep and I then hit a gas pipe 12" down. End of story. As I write this I am sitting on a cinder block in the garage having put a few hours in on Cougars bedroom doors. They should be really nice when they are done. You can see a before and after of them. They had about 6 layers of paint and a layer of varnish on them before stripping and sanding. I'm in the middle of sanding them. They are a nice old Douglas fir. So anyway bumpers, that's it for now. Keep on looking good out there. Maybe Cougar will hop on here some day and give you an update to the ongoings of his life. Ok, back to sanding.
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