Good morning, and welcome back to Ridin Out the Recession. We hope you all are doing well, and thanks for stopping back in to visit with us today.
I’ve shown video’s before of pigs out here on the place. These pigs are the piney wood rooters, and are native to Florida and many other states.
I haven’t seen the first spotted, or part domesticated hog out here yet, they’re all the ole black wild hogs. Here in Central Florida where we’re at, the dern things are heavily populated, and getting worse.
I stated in a prior video that we’d had some coming up in the evenings and were eating what the turkeys weren’t cleaning up during the day. Most times they’ll clean it up pretty good, but every so often they don’t get it all.
What they don’t get the doves, or other birds will get. There’s a pair of sand hill cranes that have figured out the oak under which we feed the turkeys is a feed station, so now they too visit with us daily. It’s funny from time to time to watch them and the turkeys counteract. Sometimes the cranes run the turkeys off, and other times the turkeys will put the cranes in high gear.
Another quick story on these cranes. When we first built out here Cheyenne was just a little thing. Anyway, those cranes would come up in the yard and aggravate her. They’d run up to her and spread their wings out and jump up and down, and Cheyenne would take off after them. They’d get up and fly 100 yards or so, land, then come right back up to the house, and they’d repeat this process till the cranes, or Cheyenne tired of it.
Well this would take place daily. Then it went a step further and Deb and I would just be in stitches at how these animals interacted. It got to the point they looked forward to these play times. If Cheyenne wasn’t outside, those dern cranes would walk up to the house, come up on the porch and start pecking the window in front of Cheyenne’s kennel inside the house.
I swear to you, with Deb as my witness, those birds would peck that window until we let Cheyenne out, and there they’d go again. Literally, it was hilarious! They actually pecked holes in the screen. We’d be inside piddling around and all of a sudden you’d hear, peck, peck, peck, and you knew Cheyenne’s buddies were back.
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
