Saturday’s pre-season exercise beyond the fact that Brag and I met Hover and Elmer.

Elmer is a four month old male with field trial lineage, not that that matters much to me and Brag.
Heck, the closest to papers the “girls” have is the rolled up one that I threaten them with during some of the late night cat calls.
You know, yodeling “Here Kitty, Kitty, Come play with us”
Over and over and over and over, as Kitty sit’s a few yards from the fence and performs it’s evening toiletries. The eleven o’clock cat call is regular as clock work since Kitty’s servant puts Kitty out every evening during the eleven o’clock news. It’s Kitty’s boyfriends who stop by to see if she can come out to play at two in the morning that makes me get the paper out. And the refilled bottles of water. They throw pretty good.

Oh yeah, Elmer

out of tomorrows pre-season exercise on our pine plantation hunting lease on the out skirts of beautiful downtown Seale, Alabama.
Something about a golf game.
Golf!
Lord help poor Ruby. If I was her I’d run away from home and take up with the Rabbit Journal pack.
Golf, I tell you. I should have known, him being a lawyer and all that he would have some unscrupulous activities.
Oh well.
Plunker also can’t make it. Work. Well at least it’s the pre-season and that excuse right now is better than Cuz and Rye’s which is “it’s to dang hot”.

But I got a confirmation that Hover and Elmer ( I would assume that’s of the Fudd fame) are going to make it

and GF gave it her endorsement

I changed a stuffed flounder recipe into a speckled trout casserole though most any fish fillets would work.

8 speckled trout fillets
1 cup butter (or substitute. And I regarded the 1 cup as overkill)
½ cup chopped celery
½ cup chopped onion
3 cups of chicken flavored dry bread stuffing mix
1 (6 oz) can lump crab meat
1 (4 oz) can tiny (small) shrimp (reserve the liquid though I end up using it in the stuffing mix to get a good consistency)
½ teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning
½ teaspoon Cajun seasoning ( I used Tony’s)

Preheat oven to 300

Melt half the butter in a skillet and sauté the onions and celery until barely tender.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the stuffing mix, onions/celery and butter from the skillet, seasoning (Old Bay and Cajun), both the shrimp and the crab meat. Use the liquid from the shrimp to get a good consistency. You don’t want it soupy.

I used a 13x9x2 three quart Pyrex dish and rubbed the bottom and sides with Smart Balance, a butter substitute.

Line the bottom of the pan with the speckled trout filet's. Sprinkle lightly with Old Bay and Cajun
Top with the stuffing. I then drizzled the other ½ cup of butter (or substitute) on top. Go light

Bake 20 minutes or until the fish flakes easily

from “One Dog” last night
Yep, MarkTippins gave me a call after being missing in action since he introduced us to the Harris boys. I was fixing to send djmed by his office to shake his tree.

Anyway, him and Ruby turned up and One Dog says that they are going to make our Saturday morning exercise.
We’ll see.

Other notes of interest.
Hover, the Valley denzien, says that he and his dog, Elmer are going to come down. His boy can’t make it, something about bikini’s and Florida.

I’m into my last week of doxycycl hyc for the lyme disease. Brag was tested last week, but I don’t know the results yet. Hopefully, I’ll be free of the effects of the disease and the medicine soon. The medicine itself is pretty rough. No, not having to avoid the sun. It’s having to find three hours when I’m not eating something.

Some boys from the Mississippi Beaglers have been stopping by.
Welcome!

Don’t forget the great video’s at MyOutDoorTV.

Why am I doing this post?
Well, if you didn’t slog through my post on Saturday’s pre-season exercise, you don’t know that Kate was snake bit.

make her first mistake of the season. The rabbit came down the edge of the oaks from the three o’clock position to the nine o’clock before making a series of long jumps back to the five o’clock position. It froze slightly to my right as it either saw or sensed me. I think it’s intention was to race away to the six o’clock direction dead away from the girls who were hot on his track. I had spoiled that plan and he shot back towards the eight o’clock.

fast approaching.
Time to get in some target practice

on Beagle Clubs / Rabbit Hunters in the Valley, Alabama area.

"I am new to rabbit hunting.I always wanted to go ,but didn't know anyone that went.I recently bought a beagle .He is four months old and will trail and run tame rabbits,but is a little slow on cottontails.I am looking for a beagle club near Valley.Al. Any information would help"

Anybody that has any information or wants to join up with Hover, drop me a line and I'll forward it to him. I would like to see our sport spread out and get new blood in. That's one reason that I like to see kids on rabbit hunts

In the meantime, I emailed back an invite to join in a pre-season exercise or two with Brag and myself and he sent a few more details about Elmer. Yeah, a male. I'm not to sure what my girls will think of him, but they've all been spayed except the new dog, Suzie. Yes, I know I owe you a post on that.
Still if Elmer matches up in size and instincts, Suzie might make his dreams come true early next year

and can change from moment to moment causing you to question your sanity. Lyme can effect the joints, give you lyme meningitis, give you sever flu like symptoms and even make you think you’re having a heart attack. And this isn’t even a partial list.

I had all of the above. And for a internet bs’er, worse symptoms: “ problems with concentration and short term memory”. Notice how for the last several months, my level of posting has slacked off? It isn't just because of the end of rabbit season though that does play into it

Even when you no longer test positive for Lyme, the symptoms can linger on, in some cases for years. I tested positive for both old and new anti-bodies. What that means is that I have a case of long term Lyme.

As I’ve noted before, I should be buying Georgia lottery tickets since I’m a multiple winner in the Lyme sweepstakes. It was noted in the comment section of another post that there were only 8 and 10 reported cases in Alabama and Georgia in 03. I tested positive in 99, 2001 and probably acquired it again in the intervening years before it was detected again this year, 07. Unless, they didn’t clear up the 01 case. Or heck, the 01 case might have been the 99 case
I wonder if the doctors are slack in reporting as they are in testing. I had to demand a test for lyme.

Now what was I talking about?

Oh yeah. I finished my regime of anti-biotic and was looking forward to abandoning my vampire routine despite the flare-ups of some of the symptoms.
The anti-biotic make you light sensitive. Unfortunately, the doctor had to put me on another three weeks and then I’ll get another Lyme test. If this cycle of medicine doesn’t clear it up, it’s on to the more exotic.

Bear with me. I do have two posts, I would like to make when I remember what they were and what I wanted to say.
Something about the new cull dog "Suzie", Brag and I acquired

"It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government."

--Thomas Paine

Since it's really been to dry for homegrown fireworks, I give you a "cyber" display