Deer Season 2022 Opens

Deer season 2022 is entering its fourth day this morning. Squirrel-Eating Jon – the man whom eating nothing but squirrels matured to a full-mediocrity – has been out every day. Conditions for hunting deer were superb the first two days, snowing, blowing, the thermometer dropping. He stuck closer to home cos the roads were treacherous

A Nice Pre-season Trophy

With elk season just a week away and whitetail season following a week after that and black bear season already well underway, Squirrel-Eating Jon has been roving the high west like a Plotthound on the trail of a catamount. Hunting, scouting, expectorating the remnants of the covid plague he had picked-up on a rare trip

Close Shave with a Twister

This past July 7 sometime not long after midday, Squirrel-Eating Jon went upstairs for nap, belly full of a nice dinner of squirrels. He had only just laid down on the ancient lumpy mattress when there came the rumble of thunder. That’s odd, he thought, he had not noticed clouds. The day nonetheless – the

Education of a Snake Hunter – Chapter Four

Memory conspires against nature.  The forgetting can begin in the instant that a change takes place…             –  J.B. MacKinnon It was now the 1980’s.  Educators were giving us a more sober, and more realistic message.  Towards the end of high school we were told we would be the first generation that, on average, would

Hunting the Dakota Whitetail – 2021 Season

Like many deer hunters who wish to be successful at their game, Squirrel-Eating Jon likes to do scouting pre and during season. And afterwards as well, to see who made it through. Locally, this entails repurposing a couple of the cameras he had in use keeping tabs on the neighborhood grizzly bears for use at

Cowboys and Bikers

He’d be leaner were he on a horse. We could write a book examining machine versus horse and the effect of each on the human psyche. And body for that matter.  Maybe someone has. There is this big ol store in Calgary from back when called “Stallion Boot & Jean Company.”  You walk in the

Reminiscences on the Summer’s Music and the Essential Effect of Competence on the Human Spirit

Thomas Hart Benton artwork On August 14 Squirrel Eating Jon plied his wares at the local farm market and the music was so bad it had him wondering if there wasn’t some merit after-all in Old Testament punishments for sin. The sin of getting up on stage before your time, for instance. At least 50%

Local Grizzly DNA Results In

Last fall Squirrel-Eating Jon collected 24 hair samples of grizzly bear from the area immediately adjacent the farm. These were sent to a lab for DNA analysis. The first results of the analysis are in. Eating reckoned from the evidence he gleaned tracking the bears as well as trail camera shots garnered by himself and

Gregory Alan Iaskov… A Gem of a Song in a Flawless Rendition

Thomas Hart Benton art. Available on the album Gregory Alan Isakov and the Colorado Symphony.

An Unsolved Mystery In the Woods

Squirrel-Eating Jon is 1431.6 times the the size of these Brewer’s, or hairy-tailed moles. Depicted here posing for the artist Audubon in tandem for reasons of personal safety. Remember, always go outside in pairs. Or better yet as a group. In the days before the White Man, these moles lived and self-actualized on the surface