CouesWhitetail

A couple recent things we ate that are made from prickly pear cactus. First one has roasted and fresh cut prickly pear pads along with grilled pork, hominy and some other veggies. I didn't actually make this soup, it was made by some friends during a prickly pear harvesting class at Boyce Thompson Arboretum. And another snack was this prickly pear smoothie, which was YUMMY! fresh prickly pear juice, yogurt, pineapple juice and overipe bananas. Blended together with ice in a blender. Tastey and fairly healthy, although it can be high in sugar. Good thing prickly pear juice is supposed to be good for moderating blood sugar!

LOL! Loved that! My husband and I should have talked each out of extra steak last night! At least it was lean sirloin and not my favorite fat laden ribeye!!

I think I could live on Salmon, spinach and avocado....all my favorites! Safeway now carries frozen alaskan sockeye salmon which I always have on hand in our freezer for quick dinner and safeway also carries Demings canned sockeye salmon that I use to make a salmon pasta salad with lots of veggies in it -- I make it in advance and take it camping with us. I use Brianna's Poppyseed dressing for that salmon pasta salad and it's wonderful! I think you could make salmon burgers with the canned salmon but haven't done it yet. It has bones in the can, but they are soft and easy to eat.

Wow! You weren't kidding...rotund indeed!!

Time to bust out the Insanity DVD That's what I am thinking!!

Great advice everyone! I have been slowly removing the carbs from our dinners. It's tough because pasta is one of my husband's favorite foods. But he loves veggies too, so it's an easy switch most days. Hard boiled eggs are a staple for us, especially when camping. But even this morning I enjoyed a hardboiled egg and a fresh peach from a friend's tree. That made a surprisingly satisfying bfast. The other hardship for us is that my husband is now into making beer and wine! I used to drink almost no beer and have some wine occassionally, but now the stuff he makes is so good that I have at least some beer or wine most days now. So cutting out alcohol will be pretty impossible for us. I will have to make up for those empty calories by more exercise or cutting out other food.

Hey Kelney, Which program is easiest on the knees?

Nice pics!

Wow, looks great!

Thanks for the info!

I used to see these a lot more on deer out east....they are generally not dangerous for the deer, but unsightly and can sometimes cause problems with the deer being able to see and eat normally. They are mostly just a cosmetic problem. It's essentially a huge wart. for more info: http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10370_12150_12220-26637--,00.html

Congratulations on your deer! Neat buck!

Definitely a great character buck! I love droptines!

Amazing buck and video! Congrats to the hunter and all involved!

Excellent!! Some nice bucks there Elkhunter1 and Mcgrew24!

Wow! great bucks for sure!

Thanks for sharing your finds with us! And I am with Jimmer....anytime is the right time and you are on "shedule"!

Just past you....big white CW sticker on front window....I waved but don't think you saw me.

Hey Everyone, If you remember last year we started our first ever CouesWhitetail.com Wildlife Conservation Challenge as a way to encourage people to do more for wildlife. To enter the contest all you had to do was attend something like a wildlife habitat improvement project, a wildlife conservation group banquet, or join a wildlife conservation group. The more things you did, the more entries you got. And if you wore some CW.com gear while doing it, you got even more entries! We had lots and lots of entries and from those entries I randomly selected 10 winners. Then I sorted those 10 randomlly selected winners based on number of entries they had to determine what place they were and what prize they received. I posted the list of winners on the home page: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/2014/08/winners-from-our-2013-wildlife-conservation-challenge-announced/ This turned out to be a great contest and I want thank all the sponsors that donated great prizes for this contest. A list of prizes and who donated them can be found on the link shown above. (the forum is messing up the table formatting so can't post the table here) Top prize was a scoped Ruger American .270 donated by Healy Arms and CW.com. Thank you Healy Arms. Mark Healy sent me the photo below of Kathi Nixon picking up the gun that her husband won. Who thinks her husband will even get to hold the gun? LOL!!

here are some pics from 24a

Hey All, I know many of you are on Facebook and despite the many things I don't like about FB, we do have a CW.com facebook page. So if you are on FB, please "like" the CouesWhitetail.com facebook page. Thanks to Bonecollector and Bass for helping with this page! Right now we have a CW tshirt giveaway going on FB. To enter the giveaway, you just have to post where your next hunt will be. Here is a link to the post. We already have over 200 people entered in the contest! I am doing the drawing on Aug 17 when I get back from some fieldwork. The tshirt giveway post is down a few posts on the page...look for the photo of the four guys wearing CW tshirts......I can't seem to get the direct link for the post, so here is the CW facebook page link https://www.facebook.com/pages/CouesWhitetailcom/290636191631?ref=hl I am sure we will be doing more tshirt giveaways here in the forum, but if you want to participate on the CW FB page, here is a fun opportunity.

Is it to late to submit entires for last year? Yes, sort of.....You had to have made a post about your hunt before Feb 2014, but if you had posted your hunt story before the deadline, then you can still get entered. Just PM CouesTracker with the link to your story.

Congratulations! And nice sticker pic!!

Just a reminder to contact Couestracker if you wanted to be considered in last year's contest. We are trying to wrap that up. Thanks!

Nice finds! and yes Pixman does a great job with the staining.