Hey guys!  Met Lee and Tiffany Lakosky for the first time EVER last night here in Iowa for the Classic!  Also met T-Bone who is a DOLL!  Lee and Tiff were great!  Got some pics and had a chance to chat with Tiff for a while, which was a dream come true for myself, being a BOWGIRL!  LOL!  Pics to come when we return home! 

We found two sheds on our 40 acres west of here.  One was a small spike.  Here are a couple of pics of the largest shed.  It was pretty tall.  If it helps, I have one pic of it lined up with my foot.  This particular running shoe is a size 7 women's!  HA HA!  On the close up pic, I think you can get a pretty good feel for how thick this shed was by comparing it to my finger that you can see in the pic as well.

Also found a heck of a rub we missed seeing last fall.  Think that buck must have been trying to rub his way thru the whole dang tree!  HA HA! 

Ok, I know this isn't exactly hunting-related, but I'm passing time until there are more sheds on the ground and Spring Turkey Season opens!  HA HA!  Can I just say I am sooo hooked on this song by Dierks Bentley???!!!  Especially when KBGuy sings it to me when we are ridin' down the road!  Here's the lyrics...The title is "Feel That Fire". 

She wants her nails painted black
She wants the toy in the crackerjack
She wants to ride the bull at the rodeo

She wants to wear my shirt to bed
She wants to make every stray a pet
N' Drive around in my truck with no place to go

But she needs to feel that fire
The one that lets her know for sure
She's everything I want and more
A real desire, Does she know I'd walk alone out on the wire
To make her feel that fire

She wants a cabin in the woods
She wants to stand where nobody stood
And someday she wants a couple kids of her own
She wants to make love on a train
And somedays she only wants a break
Hey but she wants what she wants, but man I know I know I know

She needs to feel that fire
The one that lets her know for sure
She's everything I want and more
A real desire, Does she know I'd walk alone out on the wire
To make her feel that fire
Yeah, feel that fire

So as long as there's a breath to take
A smile to share, a prayer to pray
A chance to hold her hand to fan the flame

She's gonna feel that fire
The one that lets her know for sure
She's everything I want and more
A real desire, Does she know I'd walk alone out on the wire
To make her feel that fire

Any of you ladies out there enjoy this song as much as I do?  I can completely relate to it...I couldn't have written it any better myself...obviously!  HA HA!  But just between you and I...KBGuy sings it WAY better than even Dierks Bentley!  WOW! 

Someone needs to show me how to put songs up on my blog! And, while I'm at it, since we are huge fans of Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, who are avid bowhunters as well, here's a little article I found on CMT.com about them!  Aren't they just GREAT? 

"Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton's recent concert in Tishomingo, Okla., raised $70,000 to help build an animal shelter for the community. The couple performed during a Feb. 12 event at Murray State College to benefit the Texoma Animal Improved Living Society, an animal welfare agency. After purchasing a farm in the area in 2008, Lambert learned there was a need for an animal shelter. "I am so happy that, in this economy, people would spend their hard earned dollars to come together for one night to support one cause," Lambert said. "The support from the community and volunteers made this possible, and we are so grateful that this facility for abused and abandoned animals is now a reality." Lambert has set May 17 as the date for her second annual Cause for the Paws dinner and concert in Tyler, Texas, to raise money for the Humane Society of East Texas. Last year's event raised more than $113,000 to help abused and neglected animals." 

Woo Hoo!  Miranda and Blake ROCK! And how cute are they BOTH???!!!  Especially Blake!  Sorry, Miranda, nothing personal!  HA HA! 

Wow!  The buffalo blog post got my inbox jammed with messages.  I won't have time to get to them all today...actually, it might take me more like a week!  Be patient and bear with me!  Thanks!

Some pics of John and the beast he recently shot...and a little something about the hunt that he wrote up...

"It was a little chilly for my leather loin cloth and mocassins so I put some warmer clothes, I still had my head dress on but somehow didn't get a piture of it.

It was actually a very cool experience. It couldn't have went any better. After a little game of cat and mouse, I ended up shooting him at 50 yds broadside and hit just where I was aiming. I had him at 34 yds at one time. He wasn't going to let me get any closer unless it was him charging at me. He definitely had me concerned. I buried the arrow to the fletch and we could see where it hit the opposite side of him when we were cutting him up.

After the shot, he kicked a bit and ran about 100 yds, went in a circle and piled up hard.

Seeing him go down and walking up on an animal like that is just amazing to see how big they are. Humbling. He was atleast 5.5' at the top of his hump, maybe even 6'. They est. his weight at one ton. He was just so huge laying there on the ground. Brought down by one arrow, which really surprised some people; which I must admit, I was quite relieved myself.

I've worked on his cape for about 15 hours and have it ready for the form already and have the rear half of his hide in the tanning solution now. I will try and make a rug out of his back half of hide. Its been quite the task just moving the hides around, especially when they are wet. Wow!, what a task."

Congrats to John!  Must have been quite a rush!  And thanks for letting me share it with everyone here.