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In reply to the discussion: What is one of your kitchen/house tools from long ago that you still treasure today? [View all]hunter
(38,311 posts)One of our shelter adopted dogs would be overjoyed to go hunting pigs with me and I'm certain I could make some excellent sausage from any pig I shot, but here in the twenty first century I'm mostly vegetarian. I don't even own an appropriate gun for shooting a pig with. My last hunting license is near forty years expired.
Curiously in my matriarchal family it was often the women who hunted and put meat on the table. Their men tended to be semi-useless dreamers of electricity, telephone, radio, airplanes, cinema, and rocket ships. (If the men in our family could lose money on such frivolous pursuits they frequently did.)
My grandmother and her sister's mother was somewhat impressed when my useless grandfather got a job as an engineer working on the Apollo Project, bits of metal he made landed men on the moon, but she might have been more impressed had he ever shot a pig and brought some sausage to the table. This was of course a bit hypocritical or her because her own useless dead dreamer husband hadn't been any more practical. His obsessions had been automobiles, airplanes, and Hollywood cinema. Like myself, he was not that kind of hunter.