Icewind's Ramblings

A few years ago at Thanksgiving, my family went to my sister's house for our traditional feast we had with family and friends. This was when I still lived in the south ( Atlanta ) and all the family members would bring a dish or two for the great meal. My aunts and mama would make many dishes and deserts and we usually had more food than everyone could eat so leftovers were always something everyone desired to take home with them. All of us ‘kids’ were always joking around so that year knowing how gullible my sister is, I decided to play a trick. I told my sister that she needed to go to the store for something we needed and she happily left for the store. While my sister was gone, we took the turkey out of the oven, removed the stuffing, shoved a Cornish hen inside the turkey, and inserted the stuffing back inside the turkey. We then placed the bird(S) back in the oven to finish cooking. When it was time for dinner, my sister pulled the turkey out of the oven a...

"A man's got to know his limitations." -- Clint Eastwood Ice

With the holiday just passed there was celebration in my household when I was awarded the treasured much sought recognition. It was . . . the toilet seat award . . . I finally got it right. Ice

Grizzly Man 0r Some Grizzly Truths The bears now are settling in for a long winters sleep finishing another season of fishing and the occasional encounter with humans. I recently saw a film that has been floating around for about a year now called “Grizzly Man”. It was a wonderful tale about a man’s journey of exploration in himself and nature. This is a documentary of a real person, Timothy Treadway who for several years would leave the comforts of his California surroundings and travel into the wilds of Alaska living amongst the huge grizzly bears of Alaska 's Katmai National Park and Preserve . After 13 summer seasons of “living with the grizzly” and filming some incredible footage of bears in their habitat hunting, playing, and fishing the bears it seems finally had enough of this man (and his girl friend) who stayed well beyond the “fishing season” when food was plentiful and quite naturally “ate” them while his camera and recorder were rolling....