OK, so I disappeared for a bit.  No biggie.  Real life (J.O.B.) rears its ugly head, and I have to submit to the master.  Ya’ll know how it is.  Well, unless you’re a mega-zillionaire like Othmar, or a fine Southern Gentleman of Leisure like Rex.  It would be nice if keeping up with this blog were part of my real job, like Kristine.

But it’s not, and my current clients would frown on my using their time to post up to my blog…especially considering what they’re paying for my time. 

What really kills me is I’ve been sitting on a handful of great topics, just waiting for time to put them together and get them up here.  I’ll have to start making time soon.  But in the meantime, I’m off for Coon Camp Springs tomorrow evening to get in a couple of more days of work on our habitat project. 

In the meantime, I did have a chance to run through the news lately, and have a couple of new items for the Porcine Press.

In a current version of the Stars and Stripes (U.S. Military mag), there’s a cool article about two new hunting properties opening up to our boys overseas in and around Germany.  I don’t know that the fellas get a lot of hunting opportunity while stationed out there, so this seems like a pretty cool deal.

I also saw some news closer to home, in the Houston Chronicle.  This article discusses several new bills going through the process of becoming law, including the following:

Under House Bill 2543, the Texas Animal Health Commission will have authority to create regulations permitting feral hog holding facilities (sites where wild-trapped feral hogs are held for transportation to slaughter or, in some cases, to private tracts where they are released for hunting) and requiring feral hogs be tested for diseases before being allowed to be transported.

Neighboring Oklahoma is apparently still struggling with how to handle the growing population of wild hogs there too.  The Muskogee Phoenix details this study regarding the population growth and spread, as well as the impacts the invaders are having on the habitat and economy of the state.  It’s not a really pretty picture.

At any rate, hope that bides you over until I get another chance to post up.  I have several things I wanna bring up soon, including some really cool taxidermy being done by a friend of mine here in CA.  

One more thing… I wonder how many folks would be interested in some recipes here?  I love to cook, but seldom follow recipes myself.  At the same time, some folks aren’t quite as adventurous as I am…  so whattayathink?  I’ll probably start with recipes for wild pork, but I cook all kinds of game, and the occasional store-bought provisions too. 

Time to run. 

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