Belgian Bier

Around here Belgians figure significantly in the local populace so Stella Artois can be had. It is a fine Pilsner and their advertising is rather creative...

White House Reveals Obama Is Bipolar - Entering Depressive Phase

Consider the Larch

Aka - Hackmatack, Eastern larch or American larch - Larix laricina – the Tamarack is one of my most favorite trees.

Girlfriend I were out woodcock hunting and happened upon a stunning stand of tamarack.

The tamarack is one of only three native North American larch species and is the most common.
An unusual species in that this larch sheds its needles in the fall like bald cypress. It turns a bright golden yellow just prior to shedding its needles.
Tamarack is the most cold-hardy of any native tree and has the strongest wood of all the conifers. Tamarack also has the widest range of all the North American conifers.

The tamarack is often found in association with black spruce, balsam fir and northern white cedar.

Large trees are rare as most old specimens were killed years ago by the larch sawfly.

The wood is heavy, hard and very durable in contact with soil. It is often used for posts, poles, ties, pulpwood and locally for timber.

Obama Inspires Change - Hunters and Shooters Benefit

Thanks to President Obama – next year Wisconsin's going to benefit when the Department of Natural Resources receives nearly $13 million in federal funding for its wildlife conservation programs, 50 percent more than it received this year.

This is the sixth largest payment made to any state. The DNR will also receive nearly $2.4 million for hunter education and shooting-range work in 2010. That's also a 50 percent increase from 2009, and ranks No. 17 nationwide.

In one of life’s great ironies all of this is the result of Obama’s anti-gun stance.

Read the rest of Pat Durkin’s column here.

Check Out the Impromptu Traveler

A member of our deer camp is on assignment in Malaysia for a spell and he's started-up a blog to keep us posted of his cultural impressions.

He's posted some pretty funny homemade videos if you are looking to expand your world view.

Check it out by linking to: The Impromptu Traveler.

Or scroll down to the Blogs I Follow.

At great risk of offending someone's delicate cultural sensibilities - Andy needs to know that there has been intense lobbying for the serving of Sid's humongous porkulus, apple and kraut dish at deer camp again...

Mail Call

Oh sure. The blogger who dwells on this site gets some interesting email from time to time.

But this was a treat.

Good old-fashioned snail mail!

The Campingplatz received this very nice letter from the Wauwatosa Farmers Market thanking one of the verrückter Deutschen for participating in the inaugural return of this community’s farmers market.

For the record I also happen to live in Tosa Town more than half of the time and mein liebchen (who happens to be the brains of the organization) figured that if she loaded the truck with all manner of our surplus fall produce she could sell those Door County desirables for top dollar.

In the short space of a few hours she netted $270 for pumpkins, decorative gourds, fall produce and red osier dogwood.

This was matched by a corporate donation which allowed for a contribution of $540 to the Wauwatosa Historical Society.

Now that I have the official papers I think I might have stumbled upon the perfect plan for a comfortable retirement…

Drink Beer - Butcher Deer

Quite possibly one of the simplest and finest pleasures in life is drinking beer, butchering deer and listening to the Packer game in your man cave.













These steaks are awesome!

And if you are a Labrador retriever - if you are patient enough - the butcher might flip you a delectable schibble of raw venison once in awhile so you can indulge your inner wolf.

(Click on any image to enlarge)