Hunting is over and fishing in our neck of the woods has yet to begin. Well, unless you’re an ice fishing fanatic. Which I’m not.
Because I eat cupcakes.
Crack crack crack … broken ice.
So our house has been quiet from all the hunting and fishing smack until our fishing trip in April. Our dinner conversations now include; work, politics, local politics and work. As far as work issues, it’s been one of those weeks. I’ve had a few things I wanted to write but it just didn’t happen.
Our refrigerator is bare which means carryout. Sure I can pull something from the freezer downstairs like venison or maybe fish because that’s what fills your freezer when you’re married to the outdoors guy. But I haven’t been in that freezer in about 2 weeks since one of our dinner conversations:
Me: Did you hear so and so on the radio this morning? I am so disappointed.
Mark: No.
Huffing and puffing me: Well…&^&^%
Mark: Oh before you finish there’s a coyote in the freezer downstairs.
Me: Huh?
Mark: There’s a coyote in the freezer.
Me: A frozen coyote? In our freezer?
Mark: Yes.
Me: The whole body?
Mark: Yes.
Oh help me: There’s a whole body coyote in our freezer? Standing on all fours … frozen? In our freezer? With head and all? In our freezer?
Mark: Jody
I’m still trying to figure out how it’s in there. In a bag? Laying across my meat? Frozen stiff on all fours?
And I’m not about to go look. I’m not. I won’t.
And I think I read online once a duck hunter’s wife went to get a duck out of the freezer and it was still alive.
Oh what happen to you? My husband had a coyote in the freezer and it jumped out and attacked me.
Oh heavens to coyote stiff mounts. That thing is not going in my living room.
Have a good day all … if that garage is good enough for my 6 pt deer well it’s good enough for stiffy in there.
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You are too funny!!! Love this post! Thanks for the cackle!
It wouldn’t go in my house either.
My Dad corrupted two of my sons this year (mostly the oldest 7) taking them Duck hunting every weekend. They are still talking about goose season that goes on for a few more weeks, and on top of that they have been talking about steelhead fishing (which is cold and nasty). I have now resigned to the fact that it is just Mom and I and we really need to go shopping (it keeps me away from the cupcakes)
Good one Jody…LOL…I used to do taxidermy work and this brings back memories…everything from a humming bird (DOA from a window accident) to a bobcat who met his maker for trying to attack me when turkey hunting. Yes, they roomed in the same freezer along side the rest of the wild game. Only difference was, they still had the fur or feathers on and weren’t wrapped up. Oh yes…you may be a redneck if your freezer is full of dead animals
aka @Sustainablewood
Now, because I’m a hunter, I want to know how the coyote arrived in the freezer. Did Mark kill it? One of his friends? I’m anxious to hear the rest of the story:)
At least he warned you….that’s a plus is it not? I remember putting my marriage on the rocks early by putting a yote in our garage freezer and not telling my wife. She found it not to be the greatest place to store a yote. I don’t understand it.
My partner, Mark Healy, has a Cougar pelt and a whole Bobcat in his freezer! The Cougar will be a rug for in front of the bed, at least that’s the plan(wife not happy) growl! Bobcat will be displayed in our office!
These are better looking critters than a yote!
Oh my goodness! Your household is exactly like mine!! How many times have I gone into my freezer and found random road kill my husband has picked up.(owls, feasants etc) I am in there digging for peas and have to move a grocery bag out of the way that happens to have a tail of a feasant sticking out of it. When he came home with a baby fox in a little box I said NO WAY!!! He finally has his own freezer at a friends house for all his gross, disgusting dead varmits. Ha ha. Do you like eating venison? If you have a favorite recipe that you don’t mind sharing, I would love to see it. I can’t stomache the stuff. I have tried dumping every spice in my cupboard and soaking it in every alcohol there is to disguise the taste and nothing works
I do enjoy moose and elk though. Have a great day!
Great husband yours! I had a friend that loved to coil up rattlesnakes and freeze them in the position that looks like they are about to strike. That melted more then one feint heart into a puddle on the floor. I guess that was what the puddle was from.
I’m with Tom good thing he warned you! So did you look? Was it indeed standing on all 4 legs, maybe looking up at you as to say “I’m cold”?
Ok I admit. There’s coyote paws in the freezer. I haven’t told my wife yet. They’re small. They hide. I don’t think she’s noticed lol