MDR Racing for 2009, was: Re: Was Coyotees? Now Venison stew, chili, tamales

Tom, When I was in college one of my fraternity brothers went off dear hunting in Pennsylvania, and brought back venison for Sophie... "you can eating now"... our German cook prepared. Much like in the movie "The Deer Hunter" he, an ROTC army guy, went off to Vietnam, where he promptly fell into a punji pit but some how survived. Whether or not he survived the war to go back to hunting deer I do not know. We think we have a serious buyer for our Bill Lapworth designed Schock Endeavor 26, would you believe, an experienced sailor celebrating his 50th birthday, much as I did in '97 when I bought "Shpritz"? He says he doesn't plan on racing his boat, but...we'll see. Goodie! Maybe he can join our VMF club and I can have another boat to whip my tuchas on Tuesday evenings. Hey, any boat owners in Marina del Rey hiding out? You should be joining this club and racing with us. First race is first Tuesday evening after day light savings starts. Speaking of racing, we had our first Venture MacGregor Fleet meeting of 2009 Thursday and I got presented with a nice trophy, seems I missed our Holiday Party in 2007 and our race chairman finally remembered to bring the trophies to the meeting. Wooowie! Jerry, Cal 24 Shpritz --- On Mon, 1/26/09, Tom Vandiver <bs… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: Tom Vandiver <bs… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Re: Was Coyotees? Now Venison stew, chili, tamales To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 6:55 PM Okay, this is a bit far afield and I do not intend to offend anyone, but... -Our forefathers and mothers enjoyed venison as a meal. -the exodus from the farms and decreased subsitence hunting has increased the deer population -down here in the South, we sail, fish, hunt and eat what we catch and/or kill -since I have some physical challenges that prevent me hunting deer, friends help -we recently had a "boat turning" party where we served "Bambi Chili" and a bunch of Good Ole Boys showed up to help. -as was our custom in SoCal, we made holiday tamales, this year with venison Too many deer - Is that a problem? Y'all want our recipes? Tom and Bobbie Vandiver, Cal 25 & 46, Bayou Chico, FL --- On Mon, 1/26/09, Chris Campbell <clcampbell@charteri nternet.com> wrote: From: Chris Campbell <clcampbell@charteri nternet.com> Subject: Re: [Cal_Boats] Coyotees? To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 10:26 AM david dobbs wrote: Chris, I too would like more coyotes, the damn deer are eating my evergreens and leaving their scat all over my yard. No, I don't live in the boonies, it's urban but I live near woods and streams. My wife finally defeated them last summer; they used to raid her vegetable garden, jumping over the fence, munching her swiss chard, etc. She got some fabric that she stretches across the garden, from fence to fence. It lets the sun in but the deer don't seem to like it. We'll see how it works this summer. In the last decade they have become especially pesky over on the Lake Huron side where I grew up. One neighbor who grows tomatoes has been using that fine plastic mesh to good effect. I use it now for a lot of flowers. My little cottage had a patch of "golden glow," a big yellow perennial, that had been there for over 50 years. Suddenly it disappeared. They started eating my white pines, too. So the flowers get a wrap of the plastic mesh, and the white pines get surrounded in the winter with chicken wire. Next summer all the annuals will get their own chicken wire fences. I tried planting ones that they hadn't eaten before but then their tastes adapt. The fencing is a pain in the butt, and it looks ugly too. I vote for extermination and keep hoping that some truly virulent deer disease will come along and reduce their populations to historically appropriate levels. Chris