SUPPORT OUR TEAMS!!!!

I recently received a surprise email asking me to write a post and bring attention to the US Olympic Team!!! I was so shocked … I was wordless to respond. Here is the followup email Liza sent me today!!

Hi again Brent

I sent you an email last week and I wanted to make sure you had gotten it. This Friday February 12, the world will gather to watch top athletes from around the globe compete in the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Our athletes from Team USA, who have been training their entire lives will take the stage to represent our country. I’m hoping that you could share the news about Team USA with the readers of Northwoods Wanderings to get some excitement going.

Anyone who registers on Teamusa.org will have access to the latest info and will receive exclusive updates throughout the games. I’ve put all that information including some Team USA widgets and banners into this social media news release here:

http://teamusanews.org

If you are able to post or tweet, please send me the link so I can share it with the team. By spreading the word we can all help support our Team USA athletes bring home the gold.

Thank you so much,

Liza
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Liza Peiffer,
Team USA News
lizap@teamusanews.org

Well I cannot write better than LIZA how imnportant it is for us to show our support for our athletes. So here is a link or two for you to click on………remember they have sacrificed much to show their Patriotism. We just want some “cash”…to pay the freight. Hey you can even get a cool shirt…just for donating!!

JUST CLICK THE SPECIAL OFFER LINK BELOW!!!!

SPECIAL OFFER:

•Receive this Team USA fleece jacket FREE with a donation of $20 or more.
•Proudly display your support for Team USA with this U.S. Olympic fleece jacket!
•Warm, soft and rugged
•Dark warm grey
•Heavy-duty full length zipper with Team USA pull
•Made of breathable and fast drying fleece
•Roomy hand warmer pockets
•Double-stitched hems
•Beautifully embroidered with the U.S. Olympic 5-ring logo in full color

Shipping and handling included!

Available in four sizes: Medium, Large, X-Large and XX-Large – but supplies are limited, so act today!

LIZA I HOPE THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR!!!

THANKS FOR THE CHANCE TO SHOW MY SUPPORT!!!

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The Following is a letter I received from good friend and fellow coyote slayer Tyson LaVerdiere……COYOTE INC. has gone National!!!!!

Founder and Club President: Tyson LaVerdiere

BIO
COYOTE INC is a Club for People who are Passionate about Hunting and Trapping Predators, to be able to come together and Hunt with One Another, learn from one another, and to participate in one of the Most Challenging Sports in the World of Hunting!
COYOTE INC is Now a National Predator Hunting and Trapping Club, with One Chapter in Maine and the Newest Chapter in Wyoming! Eventually there will be a Local or Regional Chapter in Every State which will Allow for Any Predator Hunter in the Country to Be Part of this Great Club!

We are Raising Money Right Now for Our Website to be Developed. We are Selling Decals for $10.00 Each Plus Postage and T-Shirts for $25.00 Each Plus Postage, All of Which Feature the COYOTE INC Logo! Every Penny will go towards the Website’s Development and Expenses! Please Help us Raise Enough Money for Our Website so that we can Start to Connect People All Over the Country so that People can Learn from Hands On Experience!

COYOTE INC’s Website will Allow People to Join the Most Local Chapter which is Where They will be able to See Local Events, Seminars, and Tournaments. The Local Chapter Page will Allow the Member to Find Hunting Buddies, Taxidermists, Signup to Teach and Sign Up to Learn! It will be a Place where They Can talk to any Member in the Country about Predator Hunting or Trapping in the Main Forum, or Stick to Their Local Chapter’s Forum and Learn from those who hunt and Trap in Their Area as well as Meet other Locals that are just as Passionate about Hunting and Trapping Predators as They are!

The Goal of COYOTE INC is to Network People On-Line and then Give those Members the Opportunity to Learn from Hands On Experience from People in Their Local Chapter. We Will Be Using the Internet to Network Hunters On-Line and then Get Them Off the Internet and Out into the Field to Hunt!

All Purchases and Donations will Help Us So Much in Achieving Our Goals to Become the First National Predator Hunting and Trapping Club in the United States! Please Buy as Many Decals and T-Shirts or Give Any Size Donations where Possible! We want to Help Everyone be a Better Hunter and Trapper but at the Moment we are limited to Email and Facebook….With your Help That Will All Change!

If you are Extremely Passionate about Predator Hunting and Trapping or a Veteran Predator Hunter or Trapper Please Contact either Tyson LaVerdiere or Rafael Serrano at the Emails Below to Get the Application for Opening Your Own Chapter. Right here in Maine we would Love to have a Chapter Open in the Northern Area as Well as the Southern Area and Anywhere Else there are a bunch of Predator Hunters and Trappers!

If you are Interested in Becoming a Member Please Email the Addresses at the Bottom to Become a Member of the Most Local Chapter! Every Member Counts and is Valued by COYOTE INC!
COYOTE INC will be hosting a number of events from Coyote Hunting Contests, Calling Contests, Predator Hand Calling Seminars, Pelting Seminars, Hunts with Experienced Hunter Options, Grand Tournaments and Much More!

Now you have the opportunity to join Coyote INC in the State of Wyoming, this Chapter is being lead by Rafael Serrano a 10 years United States Army Veteran, OEF Veteran, Wyoming Game and Fish Hunter Safety Instructor and National Archery in School Program Instructor. He is always looking for ways to support the community and volunteering his time teaching Hunter Safety is his way of giving back to the community in something he enjoys greatly “the outdoors and hunting”. So don’t hesitate to join we have great plans for 2010 for COYOTE INC.

We are looking for as many Predator Hunters and Trappers as Possible and hope to see a lot of New Faces as 2010 progresses. If you are interested in Learning More about COYOTE INC. Please email us at the email address below.

Hunt Hard and Be Safe!

Tyson LaVerdiere, President
COYOTE INC. Maine Chapter
coyote.inc.maine@gmail.com

Rafael Serrano, Vice President
COYOTE INC. Wyoming Chapter
coyote.inc.wyoming@gmail.com

Here is the Logo/Sticker Design :
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Contact them today!!!!!!

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It’s February and where else in the modern world but Houlton Maine the Shiretown of Aroostook County. Would folks celebrate the moose……..

A fun filled weekend of snowsleds..skating..skiing demos and a huge sliding hill. Not to mention road races for the runners in your clan. Free movies at the Temple Theater and tons of other fun things to do. Moosestompers runs from the 5th to the 7th. For more information click on the Houlton.

Get out of the house …come see how much fun winter really is!!!!

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DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES & WILDLIFE

http://www.mefishwildlife.com

For more information, contact Spokesperson Deborah Turcotte at 287-6008 or 592-1164

For Immediate Release January 27, 2010

Moose Lottery Permit Applications Now Available. Apply Online!

AUGUSTA – It’s time to enter the 2010 Moose Permit Lottery!

For the last couple of years, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has encouraged hunters to apply online for the lottery through its website, http://www.mefishwildlife.com. It’s an easy and convenient way to submit an application!

The deadline for online applications is 11:59 p.m. on May 14, 2010.

MDIF&W no longer prints or mails paper applications for the moose lottery. If an interested hunter is unable to apply using the online licensing system, the Department suggests:

· Printing out a paper application from IF&W’s website at http://www.mefishwildlife.com, fill it out, and mail it with your payment to the Department;

· Coming to IF&W’s main office to fill out a paper application. The address is 284 State Street in Augusta;

· Sending a stamped self-addressed envelope to IF&W at the address below. Department personnel will mail a paper application that can be filled out and mailed with your payment to IF&W. The address is:

Moose Permit Application Request

Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

41 SHS, 284 State St.

Augusta, ME 04333-0041

Paper applications must be postmarked or hand-delivered to MDIF&W in Augusta by 5 p.m. on April 1, 2010. The April 1 deadline for paper applications provides adequate time for department employees to process the paperwork before the lottery.

This year, 3,140 permits will be allocated in the state’s 28 Wildlife Management Districts (WMDs). Season dates are:

· September 27-October 2: WMDs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 19

· October 11-16: WMDs 1-14, 17, 18, 19, 27, 28

· Nov. 1-6: WMDs 2, 3, 6, 11

· Nov. 1-27: WMDs 15, 16, 23, 26

A “Maine Residents Only Day” is set for October 30, in WMDs 15, 16, 23, 26. Maine hunters need a lottery-drawn permit to hunt these districts on that day.

For complete 2010 Moose Lottery rules, please visit http://www.mefishwildlife.com. Please call 287-8000 or e-mail us at info.online@maine.gov if you have any questions.

Deborah Turcotte
Spokesperson, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
SHS 41 284 State St.
Augusta, ME 04333
W: (207) 287-6008
C: (207) 592-1164

Ok that’s the press release I got…now for the dirty details!!!!!

Now for the permit allocations here in my area: Districts #6 AND # 11 ……….780 permits that run from Sept.-November!!!!!

Here’s the breakdown:

************ Bulls ************** Cows/antlerless *********Anymoose ***Total
District #6 Sept.120 Oct. 50 Nov. 50 Sept.70 Oct. 85 Nov.125 ****** 0 ******* 500

District#11 Sept. 75 Oct. 50 Nov. 35 Sep. 30 Oct. 40 Nov. 50 ****** 0 ******* 280

Now I have only listed my two home areas because I have a problem with the late season in both arreas. The moose will be sitting ducks for the shooters in November sitting out there amasse in the rye fields as they always do. If the idea is to do to the moose what has been done to the deer herd….this should do the trick. In a season or two the moose around here are going to be about as scarce as the deer. They want us to kill 780 moose!!! That’s alot of moose. How many calves are going to get orphaned with the cow kill so high in these two areas? How many wounded moose are going to wander off when the cowboys start shooting at the herds in the rye?

I love the idea of increased opportunity ..but in November the numbers should be lower than this. Or we are going to see our moose decline way to fast at such high kill rates. That’s just my opinion.

What’s yours??
Post a comment………please.

THE MAN'S GRILL!!!......BOOYAH!!!!!!

Received this pic and the Rules below in an email from a friend. Think you’ll enjoy it!!! God Bless!!!

BBQ RULES
It is important for you to know the etiquette of this sublime outdoor cooking activity. When a man volunteers to do the BBQ the following chain of events are put into motion:

Routine…
(1) The woman buys the food.
(2) The woman makes the salad, prepares the vegetables, and makes dessert.
(3) The woman prepares the meat for cooking, places it on a tray along with the necessary cooking utensils and sauces, and takes it to the man who is lounging beside the grill – beer in hand.
(4) The woman remains outside the compulsory three meter exclusion zone where the exuberance of testosterone and other manly bonding activities can take place without the interference of the woman.

Here comes the important part:
(5) THE MAN PLACES THE MEAT ON THE GRILL.

More routine….
(6) The woman goes inside to organize the plates and cutlery.
(7) The woman comes out to tell the man that the meat is looking great. He thanks her and asks if she will bring another beer while he flips the meat

Important again:
(8) THE MAN TAKES THE MEAT OFF THE GRILL AND HANDS IT TO THE WOMAN.

More routine…
(9) The woman prepares the plates, salad, bread, utensils, napkins, sauces, and brings them to the table.

(10) After eating, the woman clears the table and does the dishes.

And most important of all:
(11) Everyone PRAISES the MAN and THANKS HIM for his cooking efforts.

(12) The man asks the woman how she enjoyed ‘her night off ‘ and, upon seeing her annoyed reaction, concludes that there’s just no pleasing some women!

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This does not bode well for loacl stores. If they are cutting folks at the HQ than the same is bound to happen locally. Be prepared for Walmart not to hire as many spring folks. Over the last few months local stores have seen hours cut and have avoided layoffs. But we were all warned that it was possible, and still is.

Read this AP story to learn the deatils of the Bentonville reductions.

Now here it is Feb. 2nd 2010 and the only thing I can hunt is coyotes, red squirrels, and snowshoe hare. Now a long standing tradition in my family is every Feb.2nd we go out and try to bag a few of these groggy rodents looking for their shadows. Afterall it’s still going to be a long hard winter here in Aroostoook. With the deer herd so bad up here the last few years these midwinter forays have kept many a family alive and in good shape. Now of course we can cook up some really good chili and Mulligan stews out of the other stuff. Not to mention some excellant teryaki meat on a stick like in the Chinese restaurants from those stringy ‘yotes.

But you haven’t had anything as good as a good headshot groundhog! Man..now that is some good eatin’. Almost as tasty as that beer battered muskrat and crockpotted beaver quarters.

Now I am not about to tell you how to go about getting your own supply of tasty varmint. We each have our own little tricks and special hunting areas. But instead I wanted to open up a discussion on how you cook ‘em. I’ll start off by sharing one of my favorite recipes…..and then you get to drop me a comment to this post with your’s. Sounds fair don’t it?

Ok here is my recipe for Salisbury steak groundhog:

1 woodchuck
1 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup ground onion
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
2 eggs
3 tbsp. fat
1 cup catsup
1/4 tsp. Worcestershire sauce

Clean woodchuck; remove meat from bones and grind. Add 1/2 cup crumbs, onion, salt, pepper, 1 beaten egg, and 1 tbsp. melted fat. Mix thoroughly. Shape into patties and dip into 1 beaten egg, then into 1/2 cup crumbs. Fry until brown in 2 tbsp hot fat. Add catsup and Worcestershire sauce and bake in a slow oven (325 degrees F.) for 1 hour. Makes 8-9 patties.

Now place this meat patty and sauce combo over long grain wild rice or good mashed up Aroostook potatoes and you have a meal that puts meat to your ribs. Now remember, groundhogs/woodchucks are vegetarian and graze on grass. Sort of like little cows, with stubby legs…long hair and big buck teeth. (Sort of like that McConnel Girl who sat in front of me in homeroom.) So these little critters are are a healthy alternative to those non-vegetarian critters that may have been eating road kill an hour before you potted them.

Well it’s your turn….. send me a recipe with some pics or post it here as a comment. How do you cook them pesky varmints when they show up around your neighborhood on Feb. 2nd!!!

Gotta get my gun…….it’s light out and the Wardens just got to bed again. Stay up all night cruising the backroads with a light. Fine when your young, but these Wardens got it too good to sleep all day and play all night.

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Read this story and tell me what you think.

Haiti

Considering the current state of affairs there I think we should step up to plate and do it!! But it should come about as a popular decision from the people of Haiti. UN involvement would be the key…. and give us one more reason to leave Iraq!

But I can foresee that we will have to stay in the region indefenitely. Afghanistan cannot be allowed to fall back into the pit of dispair it is just now climbing out of. Free elections and a fortified UN force is essential to their security. We can not abandon them again!!!

Love to hear from all of you………

Post a comment!!!!!!!

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Judge allows flyer advocate’s suit to go forward

By HARRY R. WEBER, AP Airlines Writer Harry R. Weber, Ap Airlines Writer – Fri Jan 29, 6:23 pm ET

ATLANTA – A lawsuit by a passenger rights advocate seeking at least $11 million from Delta Air Lines Inc. for allegedly conspiring to obtain hacked e-mails from her computer has survived a challenge from the airline.

A federal judge in Houston has rejected Delta’s request to throw out the lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Sim Lake said in an order dated Thursday that a reasonable person could conclude that it was more likely than not that it was Delta that hacked into Kate Hanni’s computer and stole her files.

Hanni, of FlyersRights.org, alleges that Delta wanted to derail her efforts to protect air travelers from lengthy tarmac delays and other inconveniences.

Delta, based in Atlanta, denies wrongdoing.

The judge said Delta had motive and means and despite the carrier’s explanation that it came upon the e-mails through legal means, there is genuine dispute about how Delta got them. Sim is allowing the case to move forward. No trial date has been set.

A Delta spokesman declined Friday to comment on Lake’s ruling.

Hanni and her group have been a thorn in the side of the airline industry, pushing Congress to enact a passenger bill of rights at a time when airlines have been suffering from big revenue declines due to the drop-off in demand for air travel during the recession.

In late December, the Department of Transportation imposed new rules on airlines, including one that limits tarmac delays to three hours. Hanni and her group supported the limit.

Great AP story……….

Watch out corporate America…..hacking is illegal. Being stupid and getting caught isn’t!!!!

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A local man had great luck when he purchased a winning ticket at his local convenience store. Turning a ten into a Quarter Million in three seconds or less!!!!!

Read the whole story HERE!!