I just seen on Imus a few minutes ago where a bunch of silly fellers dressed up in Abe Lincoln outfits, in Punxtatawney - ain't sure about the spelling - sure as heck ain't sure about the pronunciation, were readin some proclomation from a scroll and talkin about some important rodent I guess.
i just caught the end of it really but it sure did look all important and serious like. I hope tyhat ground hog will throw some springtime weather down my way we had snow yesterday, then freezing rain, and now ice.
Boys we need us a Southern Ground Hog racket like they got up north.
I think I will dress up like old Abe and grab me an Armadillo and ask him if he seen his shadow this mnorning.
I don't know what the answer is supposed to be. I think if he sees his shadow we have another ice age coming or soemthing. I am gonna bee holding him by the neck nice and snug when I ask. . . . . . . .
In tribute, we should probably watch Bill Murray's groundhog movie. 8)
If Furby were watchin right now he would respond something like this:
"Hey kevjay in case you didn't notice, Armadillos don't have necks. ::)"
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Up here if the Groung Hog dont give ya the answer you like , ya put um into the roasting pan ... Can you do the same with an Armadilo ???
Anybody here yet if I need to throw mine in the pan ... We have had a mild very mild winter so far , not much snow to speak of . I have not even been able to take my snowmobile out for a ride . :-\
Quote from: isawlogs on February 02, 2007, 08:33:52 AM
Anybody here yet if I need to throw mine in the pan ... We have had a mild very mild winter so far , not much snow to speak of . I have not even been able to take my snowmobile out for a ride . :-\
You should go on vacation to Mexico. they have been getting snow in areas they never get it.
Well, DanG...by the title of the thread, thought we was going to be talking 'bout sausage. >:(
'Course, if'n the little bugger came out and 'said' we would be looking at more winter weather, might be talking about sausage anyhow.
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Its all just a bunch of ground hogwash!!! :D
I figure those fellas in the neat suits look at the farmers almanac then step out with this grand proclamation
No Kev, what I would say is that "Groundhog Day" is airing several times today on the comedy channel......... wonder why. ::)
We got our own prognosticator down here. They tell me the Wassau Possum saw his shadow this morning. Musta been from the teevee lights, though, 'cause the Sun shore ain't been out!
We're going to be sending some colder air down come Monday. ;D
No snow here yet today, suppose see a little skiff I guess. Was 34 °F around 2:00 pm. ;D Most of the 10 inches we had in January sunk or went in that big wind ya seen in Oz, 'cause the fields would tear the bed out of a ski-doo. Was walking out in the woods, seen where a goshawk ripped apart a grouse and the coyotes was barking off in the distance, sounded like 3. Oh, and I seen 2 other grouse budding in the yellow birch catkins. ;D Lots of moose sign rummaging around in the plantations.
I haven't hear yet if we are still calling that critter, a GROUND HOG or GROUND CHUCK :D :o
Usually it depends on his answer to winter staying or going :D ;D
All I can say that those little things ain't got a lot of meat on em but for being vegetarians they sure are greasy buggers. ??? ??? ???
Mark M
How come I don't see ground hogs/wood chucks in the wild forest only around farms? Is it introduced here?
We call them critters wood chucks around here.Now swampdonkey,you must know woodchucks eat mostly green stuff.They really enjoy the clover at my place.I have seen very few in the woods.I have one that lives in a pile of big rocks on the edge of the woods.I will get him some day.My dog has a fit when he goes down there.I have torn apart stones walls so my dog could get at what he barks at.
Yeah, my garden greens . ::) >:(
A little farther east of here people just call Punxsutawney "Punk-see" :D I just head on the news this afternoon that several other states have weather forecasting groundhogs. Can't remember the buggers' names, but Ohio and Georgia have 'em now.
I'm still going with what all of the wooly bears told me this year (and I saw more of them this year than I have in a long time). They all had big brown sections on the ends, with a little black in the middle. Guess we're in the black right now :)
As a side note, my grandfather was born on this date in 1874.
My son Aaron was born in Sept 1974 in Punxsutawney Pa. We left in Nov of that year for Venezuela.
Yeehaa, spring is coming early. No shadow. 8) 8)
What did you do in Venezuela? LeeB
I think if you looked at this forcast in the past you will see that if he doesn't see his shadow, spring will be here in 6 weeks, if he sees his shadow, spring will take 1 and 1/2 month. :o ;D
Richard
LeeB, I worked as an electrical oil well logging engineer for Schlumberger Well Services. Spent 2 months working on Lake Maracaibo and then went over to Trinidad for 1 1/2 years.
Ground hogs used to be a major problem around here. They just love soybeans. It was about impossible to grow much around field edges where they could build burrows. Lots of non farmers hunted them recreationally and seemed to make little difference. One summer my brother made sure 157 of them never saw their shadow. ;) In the early 80's coyotes migrated to this area and established a large population. In a few years they almost wiped out the groundhog population. I have gone several summers and only saw one or two groundhogs all summer. Now the groundhogs seem to have adapted to the predators and are making a comeback. We had a colony in a pile of old metal last summer that ate the end rows off a bean field about 50 yards in either direction. >:( Looks like we might have to dust off the old .243 next summer.
It is 11 degrees right now and the wind is blowing. splitwood_smiley Reckon when ol' Phil's prediction is due to kick in? ::)
Judging from the number of Snowbirds around here, I'd say Canada was going to have a late Spring! :D
As I said before, ya gotta leave the coyotes and foxes alone if you want to control them nuisance critters. Too bad if we loose a few house cats, we got too many of them to. ;D I heard 3 'yotes howling yesterday when walking the woodlot, a welcomed tune to my ears. ;D
ya Ohio has their own critter & I believe he is called "BUCKEYE CHUCK"
back in the 70's and early 80's there was a HUGE population of chucks all over our area farmers had huge patches of fields ate all down. so my brother and I and a couple friends started up a .22 chuck elimination for some thing to do. I know we went through 1000 round boxes of ammo several times a month. lots of plinking but 1/2 or better was used for chucks. after a few years it was sure evident we made a dent in the population. I remember being able to catch them there were so many. after a few years we had to move farther out for hunting them and actually had a few farmers ask up to come hunt em down provided all the .22 ammo we wanted ;) 8) we hunted chucks day light to dark walking rail roads & farm paths as well as stream beds ect. usually took water in a canteen & some food, or would cook a fish and or some other critter which seems like it should be eatable. We took fish pole along often if we were heading towards the river or the muck/swampy areas.
My brother still has his .22, single shot bolt action it's a custom made Remington with nickel steel barrel gun. (he paid 35 bucks for it from a kid we knew who's uncle who was a machinist for Remington & made it for the kid!) it has a rolled 36" barrel which I know shot 20000+ shells through it. back then it would explode a 2x4 with hollow points the hard way, drop a chuck at 150~200 yards. Now I can make fun of him as he still shoots it but his accuracy is about 1 chuck to 20 shots where as it was more like 19 chucks per 20 shots back in the day... :D ;D I'm sure a good bit of it is the gun is pretty much worn out shooting so much but I can make a fair assessment that it has stopped a good 4000~5000 wood chucks dead over the last 30+ years. When I bought my place it wasn't hunted for over 40 years, and was over run with chucks, I picked up a 10-22 and called my brother in the first year I know I dropped over 50 easy and he got 20~30 or so (he wasn't there often) I like the 10-22 as the shot doesn't carry all that well but is great for 20~50 yard sots. The terrain is not great for far shots any how on my place so I wanted a short gun with limited power.
Anyhow I think I got off the topic a bit. I also noticed that the wood chucks now a days don't whistle like they used to. we could call out a warning whistle to them and see 20+ stand up on the edge of a field back then (best was the rail road which sat 20+ feet up above most of rest of the fields & such) walk the tracks and had a lot of old RR ties dumped along them which could hold a ton of the chucks.
I remember last year Dick Goddard did a story about them back in the day a very common name was "Whistle Pigs" due to the noise they made. it was easy to mimic it to get them to stand up and make for a quick shot. As it turned out the ones who used the whistle as a defensive alert call were pretty much wiped out. and the whistle alert went with them. now it is very UNCOMMON to hear one alert out like this.
ok anyhow have fun, and watch out for chuck holes as it is easy to cause tractor, leg or farm animal/live stock damage due to the holes.
mark M
Yours must be a kin of the ones I have around here.The whistle trick will still work on the ones around here.I was and am not that good of a shot,but I can sure trap them devils.I have a brother that could shot them at a good 100 yards.We never had the amount that you have.We could keep them under control with 10-20 a summer.Probaly around 10 in more like it.I get 2-3 a year now.They really like the highways around here.Nothing to bother them.Had the SIL bring up one of his rifles to shoot one me and the dog could not get.Had to shot him from almost inside the house,he was a smart one.If anyone stepped of the front steps he was gone into the stone wall.This was 400 feet away and downhill at that.I let the dog go down and chew on him for awhile.
They are easy to knock off with a stone if your a good 'whip'n boy'. Just wait by the hole entrance and as soon as soon as they poke their nose out, cathud. Done it many times as a kid, and if I didn't get'm my dog flash would tear up their hole, even if it took all day, and get them. He'd tossed in the air and break their necks, never ate'm. They are a curse around old buildings. ;D
we had a two dogs that loved to catch & kill just about any thing they got a tooth on too.
one long leg beagle/lassaopso mutt and a Doberman/blue tick mutt the big dumb one would run down the chucks out in the field, and stop them / hold em up then the little one would get there and distract the chuck by nipping at it's rear causing the chuck to spin away from the big dog, then the big one would grab the chuck in the middle shaking & crunching bones like you wouldn't believe! sounded terrible.
One day they had two small baby coons treed up a stump that was maybe 6' high. those coons weren't much more than a handful. the day before a momma coon was hit out front our place. So I snatched & saved those two coons and took em out into the field thinking I'd let them go out there, but more I looked at them more I figured they wouldn't survive with out they mom. so I ended up raising them with the dogs & cats. for 4 or 5 years they were some of the funnest pets we had, they would gang up on those old dogs & play around like crazy. When the dogs weren't looking the coons would sneak up on them & pounce on them wool the heck out of each other for a min then run up a tree and chatter like crazy I'm sure it drove the dogs nuts not being able to eat em when they were young but if me or my brother told them NO they would listen better than any teenager today for sure! :D ::)
the cats simply loved the coons as they had someone else to help em toucher the dogs hahah...
When we moved farther out away from the tracks there was an area with a lot less chucks, but had large open bean/hay fields. at that time we had driver licenses and would go around to open areas and plink them on summer days when we were off work.
Now a days I'm sure we would be arrested for any number of violations and be # 1 on PETAS list of evil dooers! (next to george W) My brother still is going out hunting chucks at other farms and has a good connection in his back yard to several hundred acres of bottom land that he chuck hunts on. and is good friends with a lot of the local farmers. I usually only shoot on my own place but have been thinking about talking to my horse farm neighbor who has 4~500 acres of pasture. I see a guy in a 4x4 setting on the corners of his place using a BIG scope with what looks like a .223 / 22-250 and or newer7mm or better. he sets in the back of the jacked up 4x4 with the gun on a tri-pod on the roof. scope is a BIG one and I'm sure could reach out & stop a chuck instantly... I'm just a bit leary of bullet carry though I would love a 7MM bolt action with a 10 shot clip... 8) :o
MarkM 8)
How much wood could a woodchuck chunk????
Most of our neighbors from the northern tribes don't realize that a short throw is really a "chunk". [You "throw" a rock; you "chunk" a dirt clod]
Anyway, General Beaureguard Lee (the resident southern woodchuck up in Atlanta) says we're warm (not to be confused with cool) for the next 6 weeks.
At least he agreed with Whatshisname Bill up north.
I wonder if the gents up in Atlanta wear gray capes and coats, confederate officers hats with feathers(or should I say "plumes") instead of stovepipe hats.
Hey Faron Have you ever tried fried groundhog with gravy and biscuits? Works with pesky squirrels.
cedarman,
I can see where you would like the milling buisiness better but I sure do like those big checks I get and I get my milling fix in on my days off. I'm pushing tools in Egypt.
Quote from: Slabs on February 05, 2007, 07:59:14 PM
How much wood could a woodchuck chunk????
Most of our neighbors from the northern tribes don't realize that a short throw is really a "chunk". [You "throw" a rock; you "chunk" a dirt clod]
And you throw a chunk of wood into the furnace. ;D
Sorry Slabs, but that is a misuse of the word.
Chuck is the correct term and chunk is not.
Do a definition search and you'll see. ;)
You chuck a chunk of dirt.
Maybe it's a Southern thing; I've chunked my share of clods and rocks. Of course, I've also et poke salet, etc. 8)
Da Furby is right agin.......... 8) Dey talks funny down sout.
I chuck wood into da boiler, and some are chunks dat I chuck der too.
I was just lookin' at the index and saw this thread and I thought...Ground hog...That would be sausage... ;D digin1 food1 musteat_1..I kinda fergot about GH day.....
Now fellers.
You've had an oppurtunity to observe that some things are pronounced a little different down south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Yeah, but least we use a dictionary! :-X :o
Most of the tine. ;)
;D
We do :o :o :P :P :P
Well, not you. ;)
Tell me Marcel, how do YOU toss a gob of dirt or piece of wood?
One with shovel ... the other with hook ;D
:D :D 8)
LeeB, do they still do the month on month off thing like they did 30 years ago? The money was unbelievable in the oil patch. I still have dreams after 30 years of being in the logging truck watching the galvanometers go back and forth and worring I didn't have all the switches in the right place. The inside of those trucks we used looked like the inside of the space shuttle.
Some of our mulch we are making is going into LCM. (Lost circulation material) The demand for cedar for LCM is really growing.
Richard if you ever get tired of the cedar bidness ya kin always chunk the whloe thing and sell it to some guy named Chuck.
I am a true Southern man it is mandatory to misyooz a certain portion of the language.
Kevjay
I can be wright der with you , Ya got to read what I rite just like you would hear it ...(Almost ;D)
Now them Texacains ... thems the ones ya got to take a while to figure out what in tarnation theys a saying . ;)
Cedarman,
Still 28/28 international with some working 35/35. In the G.O.M. it's mostly 14/14 and 21/21. A few doing 7/7. ithink most of the logging companies are doing 14/7 in the Gulf. I been doing this for 28 years now and am pretty sure there is no way I could work a day job. I like my time off too much. It really gives you more timewith your family although you miss a lot of thing also because stuff happens while your gone. Nothing ever breaks until you leave home and honey do lists can get really long in 28 days. LeeB
That would be nice to have been able to do the 28/28 while I was working as an Iron Worker and building the hydro electric dams up in James Bay , we where working 54/10 ... now if you think that the to do list gets long in 28 .... :o
I stayed on a barge camp with some folks from Montreal and they were there for 6 months on the North Coast in Goat Harbour. I had some 20/4 and mostly 10/4's after the first year.
During the first gulf war desert storm, we/I worked 12 hr shifts 9 months with out a day off, and on the end of the 9 months was x-mas day where I only had to work 8 hrs, went back on 12s for 3 more months. (I was married 2 weeks b4 the 12's started and by time the 12s ended my marriage was almost done, it made it a few months longer. ( next day off was 4th of july) I suppose working in military don't count as you are really on 24/7 365 :( not a lot of people understand it my ex-wife was one of them :( ::)
markM
Thank you for your sacrifice for your country Spiker. Sorry it had to be so huge.
Logging camp life has the same effect on families also. Only no where near as bad as being on the front lines. When your in a remote area there are a lot less temptations then back home in civilization. You can soon find out if your beloved back home really loves ya or not. ;)
Well I seen my first whistle pig of the year this afternoon.
I have a feral cat with two offspring living in my shop. She's mean as heck and hisses, bares her teeth, and hisses at me again every time I walk past wherever she has moved her pups the latest time. It's her shop now she just puts up with me long enough to set her food in front of wherever she has relocated for the day. She don't like me knowing where they are.
That's the closest thing to a whistle pig I have seen this year.
I gotta go on a diet! I saw the title and thought "What a strange way to talk about sausage" :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Good point! That's all sausage is though. I bet it would not sell very well though if it was labeled that. Grits might not be as appealing either if they were labeled "ground hominy". Or steaks as "slabbed bovine". Eggs as "undeveloped poultry fetuses". Okay that's enough of that.