One of the most majestic and largest animal I have ever seen in the wild is the moose. My first time meeting one was south of Jackson Hole Idaho while camping out there. Rampaging towards me straight as an arrow without deflecting I ran out of the way...Read More
This update explains the Canadian Goose activity in the past years. I do not hunt geese but am aware of the policies that involve geese and have they can be a problem for many farmers in western New York. I did not realize there are two Canadian Goose species. I copied this from the...Read More
One thing most observers of the forest does not acknowledge during excursions in the wood is the importance of leaves. I am not talking about the time they are on the trees but the fall, winter and spring times. My impression of the woods while walking thru the fall leaves in that it is a...Read More
One thing most observers of the forest does not acknowledge during excursions in the wood is the importance of leaves. I am not talking about the time they are on the trees but the fall, winter and spring times. My impression of the woods while walking thru the fall leaves in that it is a...Read More
I decided the title of my story sharing my journey that led to my joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from the title of a book relating the information that those that take a hallucinogen trip have a mental state change that leads them to a closer relationship with our...Read More
I get back with my friends in Rexburg and before the day is complete they have me meeting with these two young lads wearing white shirts and a name tag saying that they are missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I felt comfortable with them and sat down with...Read More
I was living in Taft California in the early 80s when I met an East German who had come to visit his sister. She had left Europe after WWII and he stayed behind to raise his family and was now a retired railroad engineer who his government allowed visit his sister. Communist countries like...Read More
The Campbells had three separate bunk house rooms for their summer help that were occupied by Rusty, Bill and myself. I am an early riser so I volunteered to get two beef cows to milk from the far stretches of the pasture . That often was a half mile from the ranch. Later in...Read More
The next morning , Monday, I was hired, first stop, by an engineering firm that had a contract to survey potential logging sites on federal property. They had a temporary camp site set up many hours drive from civilization and recommended that I prepare for sharing a camp with a dozen others. There was...Read More
I have an aunt of mine, a sister to my grandfather, lived during a time when women were getting significantly liberated with recently obtaining the right to vote. Some time during the 1920s, my grandfather was training a horse for one of the Woodard brothers in LeRoy, New York. The Woodard family were wealthy...Read More
