She's a real cutey Dean. Gosh, don't you wish you could take them all?:eek:

Absolutely!

Puppy pictures should be "Banned" on this board..... :rotf::rotf: I want one..:crying:

Dean, awesome pup! How's she doing? Get her on birds yet? Any pics? I have a 2 1/2 year old male setter. We lost my older two a couple years ago. Shame they have such short lives.

What a great thread reading about your quest for Tinkhamtown! I've been a Corey Ford fan for at least 20 years now. I have spent quite an effort collecting his published writings, most of them signed first editions.

I too, have been searching for Tinkhamtown. I'm pretty certain it is north of Hanover near Lyme and Grafton. Right in my back yard! Hardscrabble, to the best of what I have figured out, is actually based on Freedom, NH. Many of the characters were loosely based on folks that lived in Freedom as well as Dartmouth students and Corey's long time hunting buddies. Corey's home in Freedom, "Stoneybroke", is actually on the market now.

Did you and Steve go on your trek last summer?

Mike

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the compliments on Grace - she turned 1 year old two days ago, on the 5th.
We love her a lot and she is a real sweetheart and is a bundle of energy and is really tuned in to birds.

We never were able to consummate our quest for the lost community of Tinkhamtown but it is still on the "simmer" burner and is something I still want very much to do. I hope that we find it some day or at least that we find evidence of the fieldstone foundations of their homes and barns in a location that makes sense according to Corey's writings.

Thanks for sparking this thread up again.

This is Graces brother Squire he wants to go to tinkhamtown too

great photo,

Wish Squire a belated Happy Birthday for us please!

He looks like he just had a bath... that's the only time Grace looks that nice.

Squire is a great looking setter Legh!

Legh, like Dean you are a very lucky man. Beautiful

Beautiful pup's boy's !!!,almost makes a fella want to pick up the gun and follow the dog after Grouse ...but alas ,this is what I'm stuck to up here until the Fall

Well Chris - things could be worse.... you could get sprayed by a skunk or mauled by a bear, or... :whistle:

Nice brookie though... 2 1/2 lbs. or so?

I understand they call them "mud fish" in Maritime Canada. Any truth to that?

is it "Fizzies" that make them puff up like that?

That, or filling the tub with soda water.

Good eye Dean,he was tween 2 1/2 and 3lb on my balance ...and no ,he's a natural from one of my "spots",no soda water or fizz a real little Newfie pig...and yes we call them mud trout,you call them brook trout ,our name comes from the boggy bottom gullies where we catch them ...

Heres another couple for you... the last I promise ,I don't want to sidetrack your thread and I think as much of my trouting spots as I do bird ground

Dean how about that scouting trip? is it on the 2020 schedule?:bigbye:

Can't watch that without a kleenex.

It sure could be Legh - we could make a plan to give it a good try.





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now's the time to find old paths and cellar holes:bigbye:

You're absolutely right Legh!





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Dean, Steve et al, please include me in any scouting and bird hunts in new hampshire this coming season. I grew up bird hunting in hookset and Bow NH but assume its all developed and or posted now.