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Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: KodiakKeith posted Mon, Jan 19 2009, 5:49pm  Good post, PJ! People who live in urban settings are often unable to grasp what life is like for those of us still connected to nature. I suppose that's understandable, if regrettable. Here, we gather berries and make jams, freeze and smoke fish when the salmon run and fill a chest freezer with deer I take in the fall. It's a part of life. Hell, it's the best part of life! Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: /PJ posted Mon, Jan 19 2009, 6:42pm  Thanks Keith: Well, some urban stuff is handy, like toilets that flush, hot showers, and toliet paper, telephones, the computer... But anyway, here's a pic of my daughter in one of my old jackets (NOT real fur!) It was made by a woman from Tadule Lake (northern Manitoba) and is one of the best made and warmest jackets I ever had. I'm pretty sure it's real deerskins tho. Might be caribou or moose? If I could still fit into it, I'd wear it myself. I dearly miss the "bush" life, but it was a lot of hard work too! I DON'T miss skinning rabbit, filleting fish, or sitting in the cold waiting for a deer to walk by, but I certainly miss eating them! What I wouldn't do to go out and split wood and haul water with my dad just one more time *sigh* Forgive her for looking peeved, she just woke up and it's exam day. Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: KodiakKeith posted Tue, Jan 20 2009, 3:36am  I'm too old and wussy to live completely in the bush without flush toilets and the like. Still, I enjoy being connected enough to harvest part of my needs from nature. Nice jacket and daughter! Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: /PJ posted Tue, Jan 20 2009, 7:04am  Yeah that jacket still smells like smoke too LOL. Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: Stu posted Tue, Jan 20 2009, 5:44am  Just beside Lizzie's right arm? Yep. Grandpa's, right? Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: /PJ posted Tue, Jan 20 2009, 7:02am  Yes it was my dad's. She can play it a little, but not well LOL. Sad thing is, that chanter has elephant ivory. It was made a long time ago, when the hunting for ivory was allowed. See the hidden message there? Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: Stu posted Tue, Jan 20 2009, 1:21pm  I saw it before you pointed it out. So what? Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: /PJ posted Tue, Jan 20 2009, 1:29pm  Nervermind then, that one flew over... Enjoy your day. Subject: Re: I hope you really did see one Ben. From: Stu posted Tue, Jan 20 2009, 1:43pm  I will. Plenty good stuff going on today.

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