The old Groucho Marx joke... I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How that elephant got in my pajamas I will never know.


Several years ago, during bear season two bear hunters were on my property hunting. They stopped at the house to talk and have coffee. And were telling me they never saw a thing. I then pointed out in the woods and said, there's a bear. So he walked out the front door, and shot it. Field dressed it went 285 pounds. Kind of hard to hunt when you see the game in the yard.

My Dad was staying at the place one winter and I was feeding the birds that year. And I walked in the kitchen to see what he was looking at. Outside in the yard were seven grouse, standing in the yard under the bird feeder. Dad then mentioned he really liked Grouse... But I would not do it. I liked watching them too much.