Northview Diary

Remember the poachers last deer season? The guys who shot the buck in the rump and shoulder after dusk, on our posted property, right ne...

Coyotes dragged this set of vertebrae and ribs out in the field , whence I removed them, so they wouldn't end up in the hay mac...

Alan got his dad a thirty-thirty for his birthday. He has always wanted one. He got downright choked up with the boy brought it home. ...

The four shots near the center are the final ones from the back bench when he was getting the Win Mag sighted in at the range. He does...

Of gun shop owners refusing service to those who voted for the folks in charge of gun control. You know the party that never lets a goo...

Why, yes, we do! Got squash as big as doggies? Yep, those too! Alan and I went spelunking among the garden regions...

Global Warming. Not too bad here so far, although it is supposed to chill later in the week. I will take every passing warm day we get and r...

Yesterday while the bird was browning and the women were working on the side dishes, the younger men folk went a-hunting. While perched in ...

Doe permit=filled

All the excitement of riding to the hounds , minus the foxes . Guess all the fun of fox hunting wasn't about being blood thirsty and ev...

Alan's best friend is home from college on break, so they have been doing some hunting together. Today they hunted here and the friend ...

Well, actually it smells like snow. The forecast isn't calling for much, but the wind yesterday blew in something different in the seaso...

I have always wanted one ... along with a tank, if I get really lucky . This is the season when that situation becomes most acute. Southern ...

Alan took Becky and me along on his senior trip yesterday . He didn't choose to go on his actual class trip (to drink and party down in ...

All next month at Tryon County Books . My folks will offer twenty-percent off and free domestic shipping from June 1 to June 30th at their ...

The waters were still in the Adirondacks yesterday...so many lakes, so many mirrors To answer requests for the details of the deer hunt. ......

For all you Yoopers out there. Go listen. Seriously (or maybe not so seriously) ITS THE SECOND WEEK OF DEER CAMP I GOT A SWOLLEN HEAD I'...

It is opening day of the southern deer hunting zone here in upstate NY. Can't say as it is my favorite time of year. I love venison and ...

After months , nay years, of annoying us all half to death with turkey calls, Alan has switched to goose calls...and duck calls...(who knew ...

If I were to describe the best day of my life I would have to pick the day that I harvested my first deer.The whole month before opening...