Providing for the table

[Ishi]

AK;
If you want any wood for a stock let me know. I have a friend that cuts old walnut trees and makes stock blanks. Last I knew he has about 5000 blanks and still cutting them.
Very nice work!!!
Dan

 

[Knucklehead]

Dan-- I sure wouldn't mind looking at some and talking to him about pricing, etc. Claro walnut from Ca.?

 

[deluxestogie]

I had to laugh. For about 5 or 6 years, I’ve been watching four volunteer sumac trees grow in the shadow of the old, broken-down apple trees behind my garden fence. I knew they were not poison sumac, since the leaflets have toothed margins. Today, for the first time, I noticed that the “sumac” trees have borne fruit.

Despite my keen observations over these years, it turns out that they are black walnuts. I have 4 black walnut trees, three of them beginning to produce.

Bob

 

[SmokesAhoy]

Wish I had nut trees. My next house I'm going all in nutty.

I hear black walnuts are good but messy.

 

[BarG]

Here is a pic of my first Alligator I ever caught. He was 5' 6" and yes I ate him

 

[DistillingJim]

Despite my keen observations over these years, it turns out that they are black walnuts. I have 4 black walnut trees, three of them beginning to produce.

Bob

Whilst I've not tried it myself, a friend of mine says black walnuts make an amazing schnapps. Just pop them them in a bottle vodka or everclear.

 

[DistillingJim]

View attachment 20865Here is a pic of my first Alligator I ever caught. He was 5' 6" and yes I ate him

Its things like this that make me wish I were an American some days

 

[Alpine]

Compliments BarG! Nice trophy you have on your wall!

Pier

 

[deluxestogie]

So, BarG, you ate his front legs? And are those his antlers on the wall next to him?

Bob

 

[BarG]

Thats funny , because it was my first time skinning a gator. He had a busted front leg that was healed and he used it upside down heh heh. I ate the whole thing, still have some in freezer. It doesn't taste like chicken bust the meat when fried has the same consistency as chicken. I fried like catfish with cornmeal and cajun seasoning. It was okay. Yes That was a Nice buck from 3 years ago, one of my best but I saw even better last year and I got skunked last year, bummer i missed my first shot on a nice buck since forever, heh heh, and I had my doe duck my arrow during bow season. What can you say except thats life.I saved the good front leg skin to make a cool key chain for my oldest grandson.

Edit: I caught this one out of my lake but the next day me and my son in law saw an 8 footer in the river. you don't even want to know how we figured out the sex heh heh

 

[BarG]

the river flooded and got up to the back of the dam on our lake and we killed a big hog and threw the guts in the lake, must have attracted the gator and had to wait all year for gator season to catch him.

 

[BarG]

well I just took my brisquit off the pit . I am happy with it. Started at 10:30 am and now midnight. We did eat off the thin end with a couple idaho jumbo taters a bit sooner. I mean like real happy, damn i'm a good cook.

 

[indianjoe]

Nice gator BarG, you'all have a good 4th with that brisket.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Often an ornamental, Shepherdia canadensis is a tart berry that benefits from freezing. This year's weather has produced a superior quality.

 

[CobGuy]

Nice! Will you make jelly with these?

~Darin

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Nice! Will you make jelly with these?

~Darin

Life is just so busy. I will probably leave them for the birds or my single-mother friend.

 

[CobGuy]

I understand that ALL too well.

 

[deluxestogie]

That's a bunch of berries! I may have seen that along some roadsides here, but I'm not sure.

Bob

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

That's a bunch of berries! I may have seen that along some roadsides here, but I'm not sure.

Bob

The plant, (leaf shape, leaf color and thorns), is very similar to sea buckthorn.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

What a beast!