Happy Ground Hog Day!

[M.T. Livewell]

(OK, Markus, you've gotta have some kind of story . You do for every other kind of rodent.)

M.T. Livewell

[SkeeterJohn]

[Canadian Bacon]

MT, did ya ever hear about the Ground hog I shot at the old grave yard in Franktown...and Bappy ( for everyone else that is what we called our grandfather) tlod me to go over and give it a poke to make ure it was dead..so I did (I was about 6), that damn thing jumped up and tried to bite me..LOL then it chased me till Bappy gave it a good hoof and put it through the uprights....I was terrified...I hate those little buggers.....

[Seaweed]

Six more weeks of hell... frozen hell.

Heck I better go charge the batteries again and get them ready to go in the boat... I can smell an early spring I think.

This guy is hoping that darn varmint is dead wrong this year.

[Markus]

MT, this is no joke...in the country community I grew up in there were 2 rights of passage each lad had to accomplish at some point in his youth....

1. Was to shoot and kill a ground hog from a distance of 200+ yards...a very long shot.

2. The second was to pat a wild skunk. Oddly, this is the easier of the two.

I'm am serious about this. I lived in a very rural area and entertaining yourself asa child was very inventive.

[Canadian Bacon]

...and Markus Dated the hottest chick in town....She had a tooth!

Sounds of dueling banjo's were neverending...

[Sportspal]

Six more weeks of hell... frozen hell.

I can smell an early spring I think.

Sorry Seaweed, you must be smelling my backyard.......
Apparently I missed some surprises my dogs left for me during the -20 month of January.........

[wolfe]

Well, happily, I do not have any shot up groundhog tales. But...

My city slicker Mom once thought a distempered (or rabid?) skunk that staggered into our backyard a few years back was a "black and white kitty". I think Ty, who was a toddler at the time, realized it was a skunk before she did. So she almost passed the test Markus mentioned.

So I don't have a shot up groundhog story, but the skunk met a similar fate, I'm afraid. It was scary-sick, though. Trying to get into our house after the dogs, mewing and spinning in circles.

W.

[greymist]

Depends on which side of the border you live on
Canada's Wiarton Willie did not see his shadow - the Cannucks can already smell the spring - see his link:
http://www.southbrucepeninsula.com/inde ... EN=2726157
Our poor American friends will be digging out for six more weeks - their punxsutawney phil who lives in Gobbler's Knob (honest to God) was scurried back to his hole. see his link:
http://www.punxsutawneyphil.com/
sorry about your luck Wolfe.

[fishforfun]

Markus you talking a 22 with open sights? Were rural here but a 243 scoped 400 yds is a tough shot too
Well if Willie is wrong the bow of my boat is about 200 yds from his pen, we'll schedule a cast and blast!

[Hoser]

Haven't met Marcus yet but from what I've read about him so far, I'd bet he's had one in his smoker.

[wolfe]

Depends on which side of the border you live on
Canada's Wiarton Willie did not see his shadow - the Cannucks can already smell the spring ...
Our poor American friends will be digging out for six more weeks - their punxsutawney phil ...was scurried back to his hole...sorry about your luck Wolfe.

Greymist, right now we are in some kind of wonderfully absurd run of good weather. 30'sF and bright sun, cloudless blue skies. Four or Five straight days now. What a treat. So I'm sure Mother Nature will royally screw us all and is rubbing her hands together, cackling with diabolical glee as I type this...

W.

[Markus]

Never had a chance Hoser...my lab ate them like they were skittels!