Started snowing in West Point,Ms. around 7 this morning, quit around 11. Did not stick ( thanks be to God ) Piled firewood on the Porch yesterday. High temp. for today is 38 dropping to 26 tonight. Will spend late afternoon deer hunting from a shooting house. They should walk this afternoon. In the morning Bay my Boykin and I head to Prairie Wildlife for a tower pheasant shoot. Will shoot my RBL on the tower birds and break out
the PH for the walkup on the birds missed out of the tower. Great fun for dogs and hunters. The may be a bit nasty, but retirement is good.

On the south shore of Lake Ontario we have 10" or so and the good news is sunshine!
With any luck the government will be shut down for awhile.

I am in sight of DC. If we could only get the Federal Government to shut down for a month or two, we would be in hog's heaven.

http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Ruff-Ref.../dp/0578060132

If you do a web search you will find other vendors.

Great book wonderful gentleman who unfortunately passed away shortly after it was published

George King was a wonderful, generous, unassuming man and I always enjoyed talking with him.

I rate his "That's Ruff" among the true classics in my library - right up there with titles by Burt Spiller, H.P. Sheldon, G.B. Evans, W.H. Foster, Nash Buckingham, Corey Ford, Frank Woolner, Gene Hill and a small handfull of others.




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Thanks Rick for posting that. I couldn't remember the authors name and was waiting to get home from work--the author is George King. I haven't read GBE's book because it is the last one that I haven't read, and once I read it, well there will be no more GBE, so I am kind of holding on to it .
Snow wasn't supposed to start until after 5 here, but started around 1:30, only got 2 inches so far, but maybe we will get more than was predicted.
Baked venison steak and apple pie, along with a Great Lakes porter for dinner--good comfort food during a snowstorm.

Where do I start? 18"-24" predicted snowfall, wind gusts 35-50mph+, 20 degrees. All in all, WINTER SUCKS! I'm getting too old for this crap.

Can't wait for the Southern.

Yea Murph, would love to see the Govt. shut down for 6 months, but they still get paid when they don't work. I don't!

Plenty of bourbon, wine and vittles. Only my two labs like this crap so I guess not all is lost.

its been raining and snowing here today its down to a little sleet at the moment..for the most part the snow has passed me up will be 25 here tonite so i m setting here now telling yall about the weather..i think tommorrow i will just stay inside load up a few shells in 8 ga for them turkeys...hope all weather thru this ok....charlie

We had freezing rain all night last night here in Southern Kentucky, and then the snow started at 6:00 AM today. It fell unabated on 1/4" of solid ice all day, and still continues as of now. I was very proud of our farm team here (basically my daughter and I are the team!). We have plenty of food stored up, the wine cellar is stocked, and there is plenty of good bourbon. Gas tanks are full and plenty of diesel on hand. Several good books to pick up. The dogs love it, but the horses aren't quite sure! We have two 4WD trucks and the New Holland TN-65, so we won't be confined, but man, this is a big storm here in southern Kentucky. In fact, this storm would challenge storm-ready cities like Detroit or Buffalo!

All in all, a nice time to relax in the shop with a good book and admire over few guns, while sipping a fine Kentucky bourbon.....

Dave

Just took Molly (my Walker Coon Hound) out, the snow was up to her belly, she didn't like it much. I am only a couple hundred yards from the Chesapeake Bay. Northeastwind , the erosion will likely be bad but maby it will turn to rain, who knows. Not much you can do about the weather. Carvel