No, I don\u2019t mean Christmas, though we\u2019ll get to that soon enough. Heck, Christmas season started about the day after Halloween, with Thanksgiving apparently becoming the step-child of fourth-quarter holidays. (Did you notice you don\u2019t see turkeys and pilgrims on merchandisers\u2019 signs anymore? It went straight from pumpkins and ghosts to the Xmas stuff.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m not talking about Santa\u2019s reindeer, I\u2019m talking about the other kind. Whitetails. Blacktails. Mule deer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
DAMMIT, DEER SEASON <\/em>IS UPON US!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crisp outdoor days. Lean, delicious mean free of artificial hormones. A sense of self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I was a kid, I lived for deer season. Took as much time off from high school during that time as I could without being automatically held back a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like-minded kids during hunting season greeted each other with, not \u201cHow ya doin\u2019?\u201d but \u201cGot your deer yet?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I suspect my sister Backwoods Home <\/em>columnist and blogger Jackie Clay is already in the process of filling her larder with venison with the Winchester \u201994 .30-30 she was using for such harvesting the last time I saw her. Read her books for delicious recipes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I invite you to share here your memories, from recent to long past, on this topic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And if you don\u2019t care to hunt, you\u2019re invited to comment too. Remember, this blog was never intended to be an echo chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So\u2026got your deer yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, I don\u2019t mean Christmas, though we\u2019ll get to that soon enough. Heck, Christmas season started about the day after Halloween, with Thanksgiving apparently becoming the step-child of fourth-quarter holidays. (Did you notice you don\u2019t see turkeys and pilgrims on merchandisers\u2019 signs anymore? It went straight from pumpkins and ghosts to the Xmas stuff.) I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8129,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}