The Anti Movement (womp womp)

   

One of my most proud moments of being an outdoorsman/woman.  My son sitting with his first buck and my Dad.
It could bring tears to my eyes.  To know I was raised in this lifestyle,
and to witness the transition to seeing my children follow in it and enjoy it is so fulfilling.  

Me sitting on my dads lap as a little girl,
ice fishing with him and my brother.

 It seems as of late there has been quite an anti hunting movement going on, especially aimed at women hunters.  I don't quite know why the direct aim at women, but I am a woman and as a hunter I do not understand what the difference between men and women is when it comes to hunting.  Do antis feel it is easier to aim at women because they think we are weaker or its going to hurt our feelings easier?  This entry will be based solely from my opinions and judgments.  First off let me tell you, that as a woman in general, coming at me in anger or in any way that I may feel I need to defend myself is only going to enrage me and cause me to maybe lash back at you.......And because I'm a woman, I will be as lady like I as I possibly can but will also be vicious because I will not be cornered, and I will not let someone ever talk down to me.
      My Story:  I was raised hunting and fishing with my father, uncle, brother, and grandfather.  I loved every second of being in the woods and on the water with them.  Just prepping the blinds and land, I loved exploring every bit of nature.  When I was very young I remember my dad bringing his 8 point buck home and hanging it in the garage.  I felt so excited for him.  I knew all the work he put into hunting and preparing for his hunts.  The same goes with fishing.  Him catching big fish, and him seeing his children catch big fish was very exciting, it's a very proud feeling a parent and a child have.  To have an anti try to knock down all that hard work, all that passion, love, and lifetime of quality time as a "murderous rampage" that we are on is so disrespectful.
     My parents divorced when I was about 9 years old, and I was not able to be in the woods with my dad the same that I was before, life happens sometimes and it took me becoming a wife and mother to find myself again.  And by "myself" I mean, back to nature, having the passion of the outdoors again.  Raising a family hunting and fishing and feeling proud.  I married the most fun outdoors man.  We have two children, we all hunt together and fish together. I feel like a kid again, but now I'm that proud parent that gets to see their child kill their first deer, and more deer after that.  I'm the proud parent who gets to watch their child reel in a big honking large mouth bass, or a tiny little sun fish, or maybe fight a log for ten minutes  but feel so proud and excited for them.  And here is the biggest part of being a hunter, fisherman/woman, we eat it all.  We do not waste our food.
      For the last 5 years we have legally shot all of the red meat that we eat.  I'm proud to say our family has not had to go to the grocery store and buy that antibiotic loaded crap.  We work really hard to maintain our property, endless hours planting plots, removing dead trees.  Antis think we just walk outside and "murder" the first thing we see.  That is far from the truth.  Personally we saw more deer on our property this last season then we have in 5 years, and we harvested the least amount of deer this year.  We pick and choose the ones we feel are right for taking.
    When it comes to fishing sure we fish for fun, it is fun.  If we don't take it home to clean and eat, then it gets thrown back into the water to keep living. If it's a fish like a carp, we can take it home and add it to our gardens and flower beds because its an amazing fertilizer.  It's called the circle of life.
    It really makes me mad to see all these women outdoorsmen attacked so hatefully for loving hunting and fishing.  It is absolutely legal to hunt and fish.  Antis are making death threats.......DEATH THREATS!!  Wishing death on another human being is disgusting, and its an anti hunter wishing death on a person?!  Bizarre.  As a hunter I am not protesting you and coming and mowing all your pretty flowers down.  I am not posting death threats to you, I could give a crap less what you are doing in your own life, so why the hell do you care so much about mine..... especially to wish death, torture, harm to hunters and their families.
     Here is my honest thought on why female hunters are being targeted.  You ANTI, are nothing more then a coward sitting behind a computer screen, thinking that you are going to hurt my feelings and scare me into a lifestyle that you want.  Sorry, not going to happen!  EVER!  Keep up with your garbage threats, one day they will back fire on you.  We women (and men) are going to keep hunting, keep fishing, keep having our passion, keep teaching our kids what we as humans have been doing to survive for thousands of years.  Your threats are useless, and just make you look like the mean ones.  I love my life and you are not going to scare me away from it.

My son Legally catching a pike, that I cleaned and we ate.  It was delicious.

This is me cleaning the fish my family caught, not being wasted, legally caught.

One of those proud moments I was talking about.  My sons first buck, legally shot, and fed our family.  

One of my personal proud moments.  My first doe, legally shot, and fed our family!

This is a motto I try to follow.  

My most recent deer I harvested.  You can see I'm legally tagging her, and she now feeds our family.

One of the nice walleye I caught, legally, we ate, and had it mounted and preserved because I appreciate this fish.  Its beautiful.

                                                                         

My daughter practicing with her first bow.  Enjoying being outdoors.

And to end with a little sarcasm, because Antis want to be so mean all the time.


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Girls, Guns & Rods Magazine

I was so lucky to be asked to be in the magazine called Girls, Guns And Rods Magazine.  I have been doing all kinds of crafts and projects all my life and to be noticed and recognized has been a real honor. I love making things with my hands whether its the Antler rings, refinishing old "junky" furniture into something new, or out in the barn building a new deer blind or Duck house, I just love to be doing something and creating something thats all a style of my own.

This is the May-June 2015 Issue

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Chicken Wire Duck Nester

Today I have made 2 duck nesting homes out of chicken wire and hay.

Finished product.  Step by step and supplies are listed below.

The supplies I used for this project are chicken wire, rope, small zip ties, a pair of scissors, and hay.

To begin I used chicken wire that is 24 inches long, and cut a length of approx. 40 inches.  I created a circle with it, over lapped the ends about two inches and zip tied it secure in multiple sections.  You could twist the ends of the chicken wire to secure your circle if you dont want to use zip ties. When you are done with this step you will want the zip tied end at the bottom so birds do not get poked.

Once you move to this step you will pinch the lower part of the circle together (about 2 inches up), and zip tie that together tightly.  This will create a cradle effect for the bedding to stay in the house.

Here you can see how I have the bottom section pinched closed and secured.  You will do this to both ends.

You can see this is the bare bones of the house.

Now you can stuff the cradle area with hay.  Pack it in nicely so when the birds walk inside they will feel secure and they wont be in danger of stepping through to the chicken wire.

For a photo of what the nest would look like I added a few small balls in there.

This is one of the nests secured in a tree.  I put both of these nests in the crotch branches of a tree that are leaning over the water of my pond.  

Here is the other that I have secured in the branches over water.  I used rope to tie it to a few different places on branches to keep it level and safe.

These are the houses finished.  After I got them tied up good, I took a bit more hay and added it on top.  Now the ducks have a safe place to nest.  I sure hope the wood ducks that have been frequenting my pond will take up occupancy in these.  I also built a couple wooden duck houses a few years ago but the only thing that lives in those is dang squirrels.

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Coat Rack Straight From The Beach!

This project was done by Another Crafty woman named Sarah Sergent.  It looks so beautiful hanging in her home and besides her more expensive taste in coat hooks, this is a very affordable if not free project that can be done.

This could nearly be a free project.  This is a piece of driftwood from Lake Huron on the Tawas Bay.

This is Sarah picking up and carrying the large piece of driftwood from the beach near a shipwreck that occurred in the late 1800's

She chose to buy the coat hooks from Home Depot.  She paid $4.00 for each hook.  It looks beautiful.  (if you wanted to go cheaper or free, you could use large nails or screws just as well)  So her investment in this project is approximately $25.00


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Decorative Rustic Wall Rack

This project was a birthday gift for my sister from her son.  I really had him do as much as he could, and he was very proud of his work.

This project consisted of 6 pallet boards that I cut into different sizes to give it a puzzle look instead of a brick stagger look.  The flat sheet of wood is what we screwed each pallet board onto and attached large hooks on the back.

My nephew made the pattern he was happy with on the flat board and we screwed all the pallet pieces to it.  This is him sanding the edges nice and smooth.

He chose to stain each board a different color to give it a more rustic look.  He also decided the pattern of the stain being applied as well.  The stain colors are Oak, Driftwood, Kona, and clear.  I know staining all the boards would be easier to do when it is taken apart, but this was his project and he felt happy doing it this way.

After the stain was dry he chose a color of paint (a teal green) and decided to paint some arrows on it.  His family is a very active outdoor family so this was something that would go well in their home.

We decided to attach a couple extra Whitetail antlers that I had so items can be hung from them.  This photo is just an idea of how she can decorate it in her home.  Hopefully she will send me a picture of it decorated how she likes and I will post it below.

My nephew was very proud of his work, and did a great job.


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Book Shelf, Storage Shelf

Costs of this project.  The unit itself was picked from the trash and that equals free.  The clark and Kensington paint usually runs $6.00 for the sample cans but in March they were all .99 cents. (I used half the sample can), the stain was $.6.00, and the annie sloan soft wax was given to me so I have no idea how much that would typically cost, but I know annie sloan is expensive and I am a cheap wad, so if I didn't have it on hand I just would not have used it.  

This was a book shelf-storage shelf that I picked out of someones trash and brought it home.  It's been sitting in my barn for a few years waiting for me to do something with it.  It is solid wood, and part of it has a very old dark green paint on it.  Very ugly!

I started by cleaning it up really good, and I stained the wood with a stain color called drift wood.  I added a coat of Clark and Kensington satin enamel called Velvet Curtains.  

This was after the 2nd coat of Velvet Curtains paint.  I decided that I wanted to stain to be darker so I stained over it with a stain color called Kona. I like it darker much better. I used old brushed nickel cupboard handles that I had in a jar in the barn from a previous house we owned.

This is the finished product.  I went over the entire thing, including the Velvet Curtains color paint with a dark soft wax by annie Sloan.  The wax helped to tone down the brightness of the daylight paint.

It now sits in my hunting prep room and holds some of our camo gear and other hunting supplies.  It matched my gun case also.  

Supplies:
                * The project object
                * Clark and Kensington sample can of Velvet curtains color
                * Rust-oleum  wood stain in Kona color
                * Annie Sloan Soft Wax for painted furniture and walls (in dark)
 
            

The Gun Case Redo!

This is the finished product, with my Let A Girl Show You How To Hunt And Fish decal on it!

This is the before of the gun case.  It was an old nasty brown color.  I cleaned it very good with an all purpose cleaner and let it dry.  After it was Dry I sprayed it with a dark teal spray paint.  I sprayed it in many coats because I did not want to take the chance of running paint.  

I feel like it turned out really well.  It's loaded up with my "goods" and moving it around and opening and closing it has not caused any scratches or peeling.

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