03-19-2005, 09:30
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Spring Arrives
Went out on the back porch last night to listen to the competing symphonies between owls and coyotes and was greeting by the aroma of maple sap being boiled down into syrup. Snow cover is dropping, this is the first time this winter that I have been able to see the top of the pickets on the fence in my backyard. Even the deer herd is begining to break up. Normally I would see between 12 and 15 in a bunch.
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03-19-2005, 09:42
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I've already had to mow twice (will have to again this weekend) and we have flowers blooming everywhere. I'll trade you!
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03-19-2005, 10:00
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I've already had to mow twice (will have to again this weekend) and we have flowers blooming everywhere. I'll trade you!
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That's okay, not bitching just looking forward to a new season. Have had the roof shoveled twice this winter. I probably only mow about 8 times during the "growing season". Vermont has about 8 months of good skiing, 3 months of poor sleding and one month of mud.
Jack Moroney
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03-19-2005, 10:01
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Great pics Jack
Those deer are so close that you could go out and pet 'em.
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03-19-2005, 10:03
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Great pics Jack
Those deer are so close that you could go out and pet 'em.
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I was thinking about training to play hockey, they are standing on a eight foot deep frozen pond. They are tame, though. They will stand down by the garage and look up at the house if there is no more corn left for them
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03-19-2005, 10:06
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That's okay, not bitching just looking forward to a new season. Have had the roof shoveled twice this winter. I probably only mow about 8 times during the "growing season". Vermont has about 8 months of good skiing, 3 months of poor sleding and one month of mud.
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I wasn't suggesting that you were bitching.... I was!  I was born in the mountains and have never gotten used to winters in Tejas without snow.
My wife and I are travelling up to your neck-of-the-woods (Maine) in May for our 20th anniversary. We've never been up that way, but I have to say I cannot wait. From the pics I've seen, upper New England is incredibly beautiful.
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03-19-2005, 10:12
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Sir Jack, Feed them some apples!
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03-19-2005, 10:13
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My wife and I are travelling up to your neck-of-the-woods (Maine) in May for our 20th anniversary. We've never been up that way, but I have to say I cannot wait. From the pics I've seen, upper New England is incredibly beautiful.
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Maine is nice country, however May is blackfly season-nasty critters. Went to college there and learned many interesting things such as when a man and a woman gets divorced up there they are still brother and sister. 
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03-19-2005, 10:17
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Sir Jack, Feed them some apples!
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They love apples and we do that from time to time, however we also have a bunch of no necked, snot nosed college kids that live down the hill from us and the scent of fermenting apples is akin to some of that rot gut they drink and I don't want to attract them. 
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03-19-2005, 10:24
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Maine is nice country, however May is blackfly season-nasty critters.
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I guess we'll be indoors a lot. I'm feeling mighty lucky.
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03-19-2005, 14:49
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Great pics. I spend a LOT of time just watching them while in a tree stand. I don't shoot that often unless I need the meat or they have a good many pointy things on their noggin'. I am just as happy these days to watch them play and look for other critters to come into view.
ABSOLUTELY Beautiful country though.... 
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03-19-2005, 15:05
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Jack,
My Aunt and Uncle took in a male fawn after it's mom got ran over by a car. That was 8 years ago. His name is Prancer and he had a 5x5 rack this fall. Prancer grew up with the dogs they have and acts like one too. During hunting season he is kept in the barn because he will walk up to anyone.
He loves apples and visits the neighbors regularly when he's allowed to. He always comes home before dark.
I like hunting deer too Sacamuelas.
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03-19-2005, 18:19
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Sir Jack, Feed them some apples!
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Jack, Ms. FrontSight would have them running around with painted red hooves and doing math problems by now if she was up there.
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03-19-2005, 18:27
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Great story!
Even my kids loved it.
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03-20-2005, 06:43
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Doc,
I would have loved to have seen that with the dogs and the deer. Unfortunately in the great state of Vermont you are not "allowed" to have game animals as pets. They even arrested a guy last year because he had the audacity to have a dead timber rattler in his car that he found dead on the road and was taking home to skin. Timber rattler are rare up here and are considered endangered species. I have to agree with the endangered part, I'll kill any I find on my property.
Jack Moroney-drawing on my Irish heritage from St. Patrick about snakes
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