Behind The Scenes At Backwoods Home Magazine » Country Living http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes Behind the scenes of Backwoods Home Magazine with Dave Duffy. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:14:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A day at Deep Creek http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2011/08/21/a-day-at-deep-creek/ http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2011/08/21/a-day-at-deep-creek/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 08:40:32 +0000 Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/?p=2280 My daughter and boys grew up swimming in places with names like Deep Creek and Secret Swimming Hole on Pistol River near our home in southern coastal Oregon. Today we went to Deep Creek, an isolated spot several miles up Pistol River. There were only two families there, one of which we knew and the other, with four small kids, we got to know. Deep Creek is a friendly place.

The boys swim in Deep Creek. It is small and isolated, with pockets of deep, clear, cool water. You get used to the cool water

The tree was moved in place by high water since last year. The can see the 15 feet to the bottom through the crystal clear water.

I swam a bit with my old dog, Molly, then jumped off the log with the boys.

The shores abound in delicious blackberries.

Deep Creek is about as pretty as it gets anywhere on earth.

Lenie takes a break with Molly. Both went swimming.

 

 

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]]> http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2010/10/27/our-first-fire-of-the-season/feed/ 0 A Tarzan-yell in the country http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2010/06/23/a-tarzan-yell-in-the-country/ http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2010/06/23/a-tarzan-yell-in-the-country/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:04:17 +0000 Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/?p=1548 It’s just great to be home. My own bed, sitting quietly on my deck and listening to the wind whisper in the firs.

I have work to do: already mowed the week’s-worth of grass, watered the garden, and gone in town to solve a few publishing problems for Annie. But there are structural jobs — rework a shed and build a garden hot bed. They’ll be fun.

It’s the solitude during the day I like best. I let out a Tarzan-yell and no one hears but my kids. They are good Tarzan yellers themselves. I’m ruining them for citified society. They’re going to need an occasional Tarzan-yell for the rest of their lives.

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A Butler, Missouri, car dealer named Mark Mueller is giving away an AK-47 with every new truck he sells, and this CNN reporter throws every liberal cliche at him in her interview.  Doesn’t faze him for an instant!  If you’re for gun rights, you’ll enjoy this video.  A few seconds of it appeared on Fox, but the good stuff is here

. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmi-bBhWG8

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This time of year our chickens free-range, but they are so used to interacting with my family, dog, and cats that they poke their noses into everything, including our house. A few days ago I chased a Barred Rock out of our kitchen after I caught it eating a plate of leftovers it had knocked off a countertop. This afternoon I found one nesting in a box of screws in the garage. I had opened the garage door in the morning because the temperature had climbed to 60 degrees.

Unfortunately, while I went to fetch my son, Jake, to show him where this dumb chicken was nesting, he had jumped out of the box of screws and broken both eggs. Maybe I was dumb! I should have grabbed the eggs first.

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