tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post2603827707357073545..comments2023-11-02T04:18:20.969-05:00Comments on PAGANS AND LUTHERANS: WINTER SURVIVAL STRATEGIESBruce Geehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18140478955080857310noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post-44992505383255088132008-01-06T17:07:00.000-06:002008-01-06T17:07:00.000-06:00Bruce,The Springfield XD-9 uses 9x19mm Luger round...Bruce,<BR/>The Springfield XD-9 uses 9x19mm Luger rounds. We track the rabbits. I don't have enough time in this parish to be a good dog owner. We just have a couple of cats to keep the small rodent population down. <BR/><BR/>Hunting the rabbits is fun, cause they are wary and fast. We miss many more than we get, so far. There are thousands of them in this area. But today we had a big thaw. And as this snirt freezes they will be hard to track. But they seem to come out into the open more when it is really cold out (zero or lower).<BR/><BR/>As to the family of 11, we're not harboring immigrants. We've had three children since we moved up here. There's a family photo of us <A HREF="http://theabrahamsons.blogspot.com/2007/12/time-with-my-folks.html" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>Well, I still have Flet envy.Joseph Abrahamsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17087561495864928901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post-19478117140836470602008-01-05T19:44:00.000-06:002008-01-05T19:44:00.000-06:00Thanks, Joe. You would be surprised how wonderful...Thanks, Joe. You would be surprised how wonderful it is to sit up there on a summer's evening. A little breeze, and surrounded by greenery. <BR/><BR/>Hand guns! What does an XD-9 fire? It must be a gas to hunt rabbit with a handgun, but you must have something bigger than a .22 bullet in there, eh? <BR/><BR/>Do you hunt rabbit with a dog, or just depend upon tracks in the snow to find them?<BR/><BR/>And this "family of 11" business: I've lost count. Help me out here. I thought you had six children. More? Grandparents? A family of Laotians upstairs?Bruce Geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18140478955080857310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post-25883232930630403752008-01-04T22:15:00.000-06:002008-01-04T22:15:00.000-06:00Well, your Flet is awesome. But I gave my wife and...Well, your Flet is awesome. But I gave my wife and myself Christmas presents that help us while away the winter. <BR/><BR/>I gave Mary a Bersa Thunder .380 (which she wanted very much) and myself a Springfield XD-9. <BR/><BR/>We fill our old milk jugs with water, set them outside to freeze and shatter ice targets together after a nice mile walk.<BR/><BR/>I've been saving up for a while to pull this surprise on her. And she enjoys it thoroughly. I've always like target shooting. <BR/><BR/>Incidentally, this is kind of a half-way step toward our self-reliance romanticism. Of course the tools are dependent on the grid. But living in an area that has experienced a mass murder, it's nice to have the tools to protect the family.<BR/><BR/>And as a winter survival strategy, I took three of my kids out today to go Jack Rabbit hunting, 2 handguns and 1 shotgun. <BR/><BR/>Plenty of Jack's here. And they do taste so good. Plus, 1 Jack can feed a family of 11 fairly well for a meal.<BR/><BR/>I feel sorry for you Wisconsinites. And I hope that your state can soon allow conceal carry for handguns. It makes winter handgun hunting so much easier.Joseph Abrahamsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17087561495864928901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post-36512855331866554632008-01-03T16:50:00.000-06:002008-01-03T16:50:00.000-06:00Well, Scott. Perhaps not "civilization" per se. ...Well, Scott. Perhaps not "civilization" per se. But your point about teenagers, in addition to making you appear to be a grumpy old man like me, is on the mark. I grew up getting up at 5 or so am to feed cattle and milk dairy goats. PLEASE NOTE: I would not have done so if not bullied into it by my demanding father. Still, it was in retrospect a valuable experience. <BR/><BR/>My wife OTOH grew up in sunny southern California, where they don't actually have something called, er, "winter". So now SHE'S the one bullying me to get out in it, if for no other reason than to feed and water the chickens and run the dog. Once she figured out the trick of keeping warm in winter, she started sort of liking it.<BR/><BR/>Sort of.Bruce Geehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18140478955080857310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post-48369626869181480382008-01-03T12:11:00.000-06:002008-01-03T12:11:00.000-06:00URL missed, was supposed to be:Team HapaURL missed, was supposed to be:<BR/><A HREF="http://www.teamhapa.com" REL="nofollow">Team Hapa</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post-50405935832494219772008-01-03T12:07:00.000-06:002008-01-03T12:07:00.000-06:00I wonder, in reference to point 3, if civilization...I wonder, in reference to point 3, if civilization has already done away with this notion. Even on a summer day the kids and I can spend 3 hours at the park and never see another child, aside from the occassional teenager trying to hide from the sun. In the freezing cold? I see old ladies, people walking thier dogs, and more teenagers hiding from whatever they hide from in the winter. Almost never the walkers or the snowman builders. But I only notice because I think getting out there IS important, but I grew up in the countryside, not unlike the one you inhabit. <BR/><BR/>Do the 60% of human beings who live in Urban environments really need the weather? They seem to survive, they always have I guess. But is that all they do? survive.<BR/><BR/>I would like to thrive, not just survive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7206866042338169907.post-7178408133655247222008-01-02T14:28:00.000-06:002008-01-02T14:28:00.000-06:00Having a warm pool to swim in three times a week.Having a warm pool to swim in three times a week.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08782614717076996356noreply@blogger.com