Woman Midwest-style

  I finally broke my five year dry spell  -  shot a button buck opening day gun season...           I'd about given up after five disappointing years of no game to my credit.  I ached to break in the .243 my husband had given me for Christmas last year.  So we got up at four a.m. for the one and a half hour drive to our Truman Lake spot.     Walking in, a young man met me on the path up the hill, sweaty and smiling and out of breath.  Told me if I was lookin’ for the 8 point that he shot it.  But I had no way of 'lookin' for that buck he referred to since my husband and I had arrived only a few minutes ago, Mr. Ed was surely half-mile deep in the timber ahead of me by now, as usual, confident that I'd find my own special spot.  Puzzled or amused, I must have looked as though I wanted the story, the young man bursting at the seams to tell the first person who'd stand still to listen.  Rare on the first day of deer rifle season, but I did, his adrena

Life, I find, is often more about the storms than the peace they seek to overwhelm. They lurk, ready any minute to shake things up - and take your breath away - to destroy you.   If not for faith, you'd drown, lost.   And, in these cases, somewhat as a pilot, when about losing sight of a coast, whose general trending he well knows, and which he desires shortly to return to again, but at some further point; like as this pilot stands by his compass, and takes the precise bearing of the cape at present visible, in order the more certainly to hit aright the remote, unseen headland, eventually to be visited: so does the fisherman, at his compass, with the whale; for after being chased, and diligently marked, through several hours of daylight, then, when night obscures the fish, the creature's future wake through the darkness is almost as established to the  sagacious  mind of the hunter, as the pilot's coast is to him. They'll hit you, the storm

VENISON FAJITAS MEAT MIXTURE One lb. thin-sliced LOIN or ROAST venison 1/2 cup chopped or sliced onion several small or 1/2 bag qt. red and yellow peppers 1/2 tsp. Kosher or table salt 1 tsp cayenne pepper or chile powder shake of black pepper  1/2 tsp garlic powder  OR  1/4 crushed garlic clove  OR 1 tsp minced garlic a dribble of cooking oil 2 large flour tortillas Thick salsa (enough for 2 servings) sour cream handful of sharp cheddar cheese additional_ options  : jalapeno peppers, black olives, pepperjack cheese, guacamole dip   Use Wild Turkey breast as a healthy  venison alternative.                                    HOW-TO : Julienne-slice the venison and peppers chop onion Add oil into heating WOK, add the meat just before it starts to smoke, then all spices. SAUTE' Saute' only till slightly brown, add onion and peppers, then saute' till tender (your liking), mine takes apx 5 minutes.  Cover with a lid to