Rain Forest #65 - Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My!

ehBeth, I missed your post yesterday. But, I clicked for you today.......

Patti went to the hospital - hopefully, we will be able to help her.

Aa, MA, eB and me - all clicked............

I couldn't resist - it sort of rhymes.. hehe

Patti is in hospital?

Danon, you know you've both got our love and support - is there anything tangible we can do?

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I'll be able to do the full round of clicks on the weekend - should I pick yours up as well? Thanks for your help through the wonky ISP episode.

Danon, sending good thoughts and prayers for your Pattie.

Thinking of Patti, Danon, and hope that you are both out of the fires' way. Stradee, gorgeous photo! And you must be drenched, and not finished yet, are you?

Yep - lots of rain - today still stormy outside, but Rosa Banks still steady and hasn't taken a dive over the hedge since i adjusted the moorings.

Appears rain will continue for the next few days - got all my grocery shopping done, kittens warm and cozy indoors, and i'm not leaving my house till Sunday! Hurray!

Danon, i can send an email to my friends who's wife suffered from MS. She's doing really well now - walks 5 miles each day, etc. Perhaps they have information that will be beneficial to you and Pattie.

Thanks to you all. You are just the best damn Wildclickers in the world... Oh, Well, we ARE the best Wildclickers in the world!!!!!! Thanks.

ehBeth, No, I have lots of time to click in the mornings. Patti will stay about three or four more days according to her Doc. My days are filled with caring for the kids (puppies) and visiting Patti.

Stradee, You betcha on the email. All hopefull stuff re MS is greatly appreciated. Never can tell - although everyone who has MS is different. One person will have symptoms and never have them again. The next person will have symptoms and literally die from some associated thing. And, there are all degrees of people in between. As with almost every other thing in life with us all. We are all gamblers - we get up in the morning - get dressed - and go and open the front door to take our chances with life. It's a crapshoot!!! PM me if you find anything interesting.

Thanks sumac. We are not in the fires way. Nothing very exciting ever happens here.

Aight,
Since some of you wildclickers liked my teeny stories of the past here is one more =

Every one of these tales is true.

I was invited to go on an elk hunt with friends in Washington state. I said to my friend that I didn't have a proper large game hunting rifle - he said don't worry they would have one there at the camp for me. Great!
Well, the day before season started I showed up at the camp site. After a few beers I asked about the rifle. Well, after a few more beers the host handed to me a rifle - sort of. It had, in the past, had a scope attached to it - but the scope was missing. Also, the front and rear sights had been removed from the rifle. THERE WERE NO SIGHTS ON THE RIFLE AT ALL!!! NONE!!! NOT ONE!!!
I said thanks and went to bed.
Very early, before sun up the next morning - the first day of elk season in WA state - I awoke and with my sightless rifle started to walk the mountains North of Ellensburg, WA. After about an hour I saw a track of a bull elk and began following it. Slowly, and after about three hours - I saw the tracks were heading toward a thick stand of trees and brush - I knew the habits of the elk and stopped - then slowly I approached the thick brushy area - as I neared I heard a rustling sound coming from in front of me - I froze. Then very slowly, I moved quietly from one bush to the other until I thought I was close to the site where the sound came from - I knew the elk was an inquisitive animal and would more than likely wait to see what was following. All was quiet - I felt more than realized that I was close - so - I quickly stepped from behind the bush - I saw the elks horns - up close and personal - he reared up on his back legs twisting his body to show me a broadside - and I snapshot at his heart area. I had no sights but was close enough to assure myself that I would hit my aim point.
I heard the rustling of his trying to run stop about 50 feet from me. I waited. Then I went to the area I knew I would find the elk. He was there - I sat about ten feet from him and said a Native American prayer for him - then I began to dress the animal. I took the liver and hid it away from the carcass. After attaching my hunting tag - I went back to camp and guided the group to help take the animal to camp to divide it.
At camp, one of the men helping to dress the animal suddenly exclaimed, "My God, he shot it in the heart!!" After that I was sort of looked at like a magician for shooting an elk through the heart with a rifle with no sights...... That was the first day of elk season that year.

True story.

Oh, by the way, I hid the elks liver to make sure that no other hunter would try to claim the elk as his while I was gone to camp to get help to bring the animal in. If that happened I would just say - "show me the liver" and that would be the end of that. grin but true.

Dan, I sent my friends an email and when i hear from them, i'll send a PM to ya. You never know. Perhaps relating their experiences regarding dealing with the disease will be beneficial for you and Pattie.
Sending my best wishes to both of you.

The elk story?

Ok, you know how i feel bout' hunting animals, but your spiritual connection to the animal commendable <even though you shot him in the heart and ate him for dinner>

NO SCOPE! - you are a good shot!

oh no ~ we missed saying Happy Birthday to Merry <Dec 26> and Husker <Dec 29>

Hope you guys had a great day!

Just received an alert from one of my advocacy groups!

23 dog deaths linked to contaminated food
Diamond brand dog food recalled after toxin detected in 23 states
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:53 p.m. ET Dec. 30, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10655663/

The recalled pet food was sold in 23 states under the brand names
Diamond, Country Value and Professional, and bears the date codes of
March 1, 2007, through June 11, 2007. Consumers are asked to
immediately stop using the product.

Someone posted a warning about that Diamond Brand food in the pets forum a coupla (?) weeks ago. Timely, as someone who runs a cat shelter had recently received a donation of Diamond Brand food - luckily it was a different run.

Morning all,
All cricked away for Aa, ehB, MA and Me - grin

Stradee, My apologies re the elk story. But the animal provided us with food for a long time and was greatly appreciated. I even saved the skin - tanned of course. Did all that myself.

Patti is feeling slightly better - but will remain in hospital for at least two more days.

Thanks for the info, ehBeth!

Dan, no apology necessary. The Elk story was a life experience that you had every right to relate. Good writing too!

Haven't received word yet from my friends, they may be traveling for the holidays. My best to Pattie ((((((((((hugs))))))))))

re hunting: my dad was a hunter also. Elk, deer, bear, etc. Later in life, he just stopped hunting. I of course was a happy camper - and when i asked him 'why' - he simply said 'cause it just isn't right'...

There was no need for anyone in my family to hunt, we had plenty of food fortunately, and lived in San Fransiso -not exactly the tundra - and i often wondered why people gathered, packed trucks, horses, camping gear - set up camp, prepared great food, then shot animals (?)

Please Dan, don't answer if you don't wish to. Just an honest question is all.

I know how you feel, Stradee. I got my hunting license to try to be 'close' to Frank and his love of the experience. And never had any interest in using it.

I know for some people it is the sharing of the experience of camping out with good friends, food, and stories. Frank met the same two men (one from Long Island, one from Manhattan) out in the woods of southern NY for years and years right after Thanksgiving.

When we moved to SC he had no hunting buddy, was a little leery and bored with the prospect of hunting from a stand, and just never went out. Said he had killed enough animals in his lifetime.

But, Dan, a firstclass, world hunting story!

Will go click now. Hope you don't get washed away Stradee. Dan, I had a strong hunch that you weren't in harm's way, but mentioned it anyway.

What kind of pups? And that knowledge about Diamond and other brand names is known here and a couple of dogs fell victim to the stuff and liver failure.

sumac, i just wrote a response, and there was a power outage lasting a few seconds <just enough to shut off the computer> the posting sent to the ether.

Sierras seeing a tremendous series of storms, right now there's thunder bellowing very close to the house.

Am signing off the computer till the storm passes.

sumac, I also purchased a hunting license, but never used the thing, and only because the area where we camped required licenses for those carrying hunting rifles.

Camping was great fun, wonderful dinners, silliness at campfire gatherings, and there wasn't much shooting of animals - not during the trips i attended - guess the deer gods were smiling.

Regarding the pet food alert - not all animals were affected. Is that what you meant by 'what pups'? Recall the food purchased at the animal shelter where i worked - was corn based also - terrible stuff for feeding - and i recall one georgous Chessepeke Bay Retriever who was euthanized because he got sick <similar to horse colic> from ingesting corn based kibbles. Vets decided not to perform the needed surgery. It depends upon the animal and thier digestive system. Of course, tainted food will have an affect, even if the animal doesn't display symptoms of poisoning immediately.

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