Walkin' With the Wild Woman

Lookin' For Bones

2012-02-27T06:05:00.000-06:00

First - new look to the blog this morning; Good? Bad? Really dirt ugly? I drove a couple of my fellow bloggers a little crazy over the weekend; I think I changed the look 47 times. What looked like a...

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NWTF, The Outdoor Sisterhood and The Other Side of the Coin

2012-02-24T09:30:00.000-06:00

Yesterday my guest blogger Jane Kolmer shared with us her abysmal experience at the NWTF Convention when visiting the various firearm dealers there. Today I want to share with you the "other side...

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NWTF Convention, The Outdoor Sisterhood and a Social Experiment

2012-02-23T05:56:00.000-06:00

As promised, there are still tales to be told from my trip to the NWTF Convention. Alas, I have been beset the past week with what could be called, the flu, the epizootic, or convention ick....

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NWTF, Sensory Overload, and The Outdoor Sisterhood

2012-02-16T08:51:00.000-06:00

~ Just a note; this is the first in series about my experiences at NWTF with my friends in the Outdoor Sisterhood. There are just too many stories to tell about the whirlwhind 4 days in...

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Rare Sightings - Don't Ask; Don't Tell

2012-01-31T07:23:00.001-06:00

Yet once again the miracles of modern technology have created a thorny issue for us. Yesterday I posted about how there seems to be some animosity at times between birders and photographers. I think...

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Birders Vs. Photographers; WHY?

2012-01-30T06:58:00.001-06:00

The recent irruption of snowy owls in Illinois and other areas throughout the country has brought birders and bird photographers alike out in droves to see the majestic, beautiful snowy white...

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Ice Fishing in a Bikini?

2012-01-22T05:34:00.001-06:00

I've had my fill the last several days of women promoting themselves as outdoor women and also promoting causes for women with a variety products and photos showing women hunters and anglers in...

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Strange Weather - Mushrooms in January!

2012-01-16T12:57:00.001-06:00

Strange weather this winter- I even hate to use the term winter; our days have been unseasonably warm, our waters are still open, with just a little skim of ice in the early frosty mornings. Our...

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Miracles of Technology

2012-01-06T08:24:00.000-06:00

This morning I am finding the miracles of technology not so miraculous - The RSS feed here is spitting out some kind of garbled nonsense and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it...

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Prois - Prowess in 2012!

2012-01-05T07:27:00.002-06:00

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Gifts from the Earth

2011-12-26T07:39:00.000-06:00

My Christmas morning was not spent opening gifts wrapped in shiny paper and ribbons, but rather with my beloved and two close friends, headed out in the wee pre dawn darkness in order to have...

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Swans, Snows, and Solstice

2011-12-14T08:52:00.001-06:00

While others in my life scurry about hanging red and green, arranging Santas and snowmen, elves and reindeer, I am thinking of blue and white, the magic of Solstice, when the promise of a...

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Soup, Soup, and More Soup....

2011-12-07T09:23:00.001-06:00

It seems I have created a stir with my now "infamous" Cream of Wild Mushroom soup - In all honesty. no one batch is ever exactly the same as the other for me.... I throw it together, I...

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GO OUTSIDE! It's Good Medicine

2011-11-30T11:52:00.001-06:00

My dear friend Jody over at The Hunter's Wife wrote an outstanding post titled Excuses yesterday. I was sorely tempted to copy and paste and plagarisze the living daylights out of it, because...

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Saving my Sanity at SilverCreek

2011-11-20T18:04:00.000-06:00

The goose blind decoy I have now decided I cannot live without 0400 - My feet hit the floor and I started donning my waterfowl clothes.. nervous as a cat in room full of rockers, this was...

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We All Fall Down

2011-10-28T07:28:00.000-05:00

We all fall time sometime, and this years fall deer, turkey, and duck and seasons seem to be leaving a path of bodies in their wake before they even really get fully underway. There's me and...

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Stockpiling Time and Treats

2011-10-26T09:08:00.002-05:00

I have indeed been suspiciously MIA from the blogosphere, the social media sites, and in general off the grid a bit the last week or so. All is well - (well after a fashion - there was that whole...

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Owls, Orchids, and the Outdoor Sisterhood

2011-10-11T12:07:00.000-05:00

what a joyous sculpture to find hidden in the little pond It's been a wild few days since my last post, and time to start getting caught up from all that outdoor time and start sharing. In my last...

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Alive Is Enough

2011-10-05T09:51:00.000-05:00

I had plans to post about the great outdoors sisterhood - gals day in the woods that I enjoyed so much Sunday with a dear friend and her daughter - but then Monday sort of went up in flames and...

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Just in Time For October

2011-09-29T07:50:00.000-05:00

October - when deer archery season opens in Illinois, October, when we are working hard putting all the finishing touches on our decoys, blinds, and boats in readiness for waterfowl season opener in...

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The Beauty of Waterfowl

2011-09-22T09:23:00.002-05:00

Today at my "other" blog - Through The Lens - graciously hosted by Heartland Outdoors; I had a little bit of a high speed come apart over the recent sentencing of Jeff Foiles, a "celebrity"...

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The Shiitakes Are Sprouting!

2011-09-21T09:21:00.000-05:00

Shiitakes emerging from a log plugged two years ago Yesterday afternoon as ambled out to the turtle tank (where I keep the snappers to “clean out” before we clean and cook them) I...

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Pickin Up Pawpaws...

2011-09-18T23:38:00.003-05:00

Picking up pawpaws - put 'em my pocket...save 'em for a rainy day .... A few of today's paw paws ~ photo courtesy Bob Rutkowski The old children's folk song ran through my head as I walked...

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It's Started....

2011-09-18T06:38:00.002-05:00

It's officially started.. that segue into the fall and winter hunting seasons, when the household activities, the time schedules, and the body clocks reset themselves for the upcoming months of...

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Pssst. It's me....Willie

2011-09-16T22:54:00.000-05:00

Pssst....it's me ..Willie. Shhh.. Don't wake the human. I've made a break for it. It's been a hard day around here. Medcine Mama /Wild Woman got allllll freaked out because I went on a little...

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