prairiemom

Gardening and Archery

     .....have been on my mind lately. On Saturday David rototilled both gardens. I won't be planting till Mother's Day weekend, which will give him time to till again before the planting.

     Last week I took a 12 hour bow hunter's safety course. There were about a dozen students and four of us were women. I could tell that our four instructors were being careful about the language they used and I appreciated it. I learned a lot of very useful information and passed the course, a requirement in the state of Montana in order to be able to buy tags for bow hunting.

     David says he will take me elk hunting on the Rocky Mountain Front in September with our bows. I will be practicing a lot from now till then with my bow and with his 8 mm Mouser rifle to be ready for rifle season, which follows bow season.

     I should explain for those who live in other areas where hunting isn't as popular that we really aren't ruthless animal killers, we hunt ethically and like to put some nice, lean wild game in our freezer.

     To answer Joann's comment: We are an hour north and west of Great Falls on Interstate 15. Great Falls is seeing some growth, but not nearly as much as Billings, Bozeman, Missoula, Helena and the Kalispell area. Great Falls is somewhat off the "beaten path", but people who like Montana and who can't afford the previously mentioned cities are being drawn to Great Falls. You might not find that it has changed a lot since you were there last at this point.

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{ 07:47 , Thursday, April 17, 2008 } { Posted by mccrjill }

I still remember all the rifle shots going off almost constantly in MT when I was there in the fall of '86 for the YWAM school. I always enjoy reading your updates! Happy Spring! Jill

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{ 11:40 , Tuesday, April 29, 2008 } { Posted by heatherdmc }

We have gamelands that form an "L" shape around our homestead. I get pretty loud around hunting time (as long as my guys aren't out there getting dinner!)
I have started our garden last week with all the sun the peas and beans are coming up. We save a lot of 2 liter soda bottles and cut them off and use as tents for the young sprouts like the broccoli and cauliflower etc. This week is a cold snap and I am glad we had them covered!