October 2006
Oct 4th, 2006
Another fishing season has come to an end here at the camps! I did manage to get out fishing for a couple of hours, but it was without the luck that I normally have at the end of the season. I could not fish too long at one time and there was just not enough hours in a day for me to get real serious about it. (Plus I had pulled a muscle and sitting in the boat was not all that much fun!)
This year fishing season ended on October 1st. The law book read that it would close on the NORMAL end of the season, but it turned out the book was wrong.
Remember back to the days when things were always the same and you did not have to think about stuff like this? Fishing always ended on the last day of September, simple as that. (I am not old enough to remember when there was not any closed season, despite some folks believing otherwise)
Now is the time to go partridge hunting, although I have not even been out for that as of yet. I did have to go to Greenville yesterday and saw 2 Grouse and 1 Partridge on the trip out and back. (You will have to look back through the journal to see what the difference is) Perhaps next time I will be more interested in hunting rather than taking care of chores!
A week or so ago I was putting the dogs out in the morning, just at daylight. When I opened the door the dogs went charging out barking. That is when I caught a whiff of the essence of SKUNK. Now being as a couple of years ago, Shadow (The dog that belongs to Jed) had a run in with one of these little black and white wonders. I called them both back over to me to avoid a repeat performance of that wonderful morning. I told them to stay right here and do not run off after any old skunk. They minded just wonderful, like most good dogs. I went back in the house to finish whatever it was that I was doing and I could smell the skunk perfume again. Back outside I went, but to my surprise, no odor outside!
I figured that I was having memory flashbacks and dismissed it once again. (Remember it was just coming daylight and I had not been up too long) I then noticed that Rocky (Rocky is the Maine Coon Cat that belongs to Maureen) had come in for his breakfast. I scooped him up and stuck my nose into his fur. Now you would think that a man my age, and having done similar things in the past, would know better than that! Yep! that is where all of the smell was coming from!
I promptly deposited the cat on the other side of the door (the other side being OUTDOORS) and went and washed out my nose. I enjoy a faint skunk smell, as it reminds me of an old friend who passed away may years ago. He was a trapper and his Jeep always had that smell throughout it, although I must admit in the fall it could be a bit intense. But I have to tell you, sticking your nose right into a fresh dose of it is a bit much!
I have never, ever seen a skunk up here and I am not sure that is what it was. Some of the other varmints up here do have a strong smell very similar to that of a skunk. Perhaps that is what is was, but I am still blaming it on the skunk for now.
I had Maureen pick up some deodorizer for pets and another home remedy. She shipped it up with some of our late season fishermen who were headed this way. I have been putting off the task of de fumigating Rocky until tonight. I know how much he likes to get wet and I figured that I would end up looking like someone had been at me with two handfuls of Hawthorn bushes! (Those are the bushes that have thorns about 1 to 2 inches long)
I put him in the bathtub, closed the door behind me, and went at him! I must say that I was pleasantly surprised that he did not tear me up, too bad. (I could still see to towel him off a bit) He will be a happy cat once again now that he is not restricted to the barn or outside of the house! He does smell better, or at least different. Tomorrow I will give him a "sniff" test to see if he can stay in or if he gets another treatment.
If I did not know cats in general, I would think that his dislike of water was due to the time when we first moved here and Jed took Rocky to the pond to teach him to fish! (Or was that swim?)
It is raining and the wind is blowing like crazy out there tonight! It is supposed to be real nice this weekend, which will make it good for the guests whom are going to go hiking.
The leaves are starting to come off the trees and this wind will take it's toll on them tonight. I am sure that in the morning I will notice a big difference in the way things look around here.
GT
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