It was still dark this morning when I left for work so I didn't notice the mess. Got a call from my wife around 8:30 am saying we had company last night. Looks like a raccoon got into my rubbermaid storage bin where I keep all my pucks and smoking accessories. Just got home to the mess - guess wifey decided I should clean it up. The little bugger opened up about 10 packs of mesquite and tossed the bisquets all over the patio. Looks like he may have even eaten some too. I hope he got a sliver on his tongue! >:( Anyone ever try smoked raccoon?
Oh well, at least it wasn't a bear. I'd have a much bigger mess to clean up.
I wonder if you could train the raccoon to load the pucks, set the temp, and check on the progress without eating the meat. ;D
Hope the coon didn't eat some mesquite brisquettes.
He may not make it very far! ;D
"The little bugger opened up about 10 packs of mesquite" Must be a Texas 'coon.
I don't know why they'd go after that stuff. My wife feeds our 'coon family dry dog food and table scraps. We've never had a problem with them - yet.
I've heard smoked/roasted 'coon was pretty good though a little greasy; never tried it. Ours are nice and fat. Hmmm ...
We have a guy at the Camp that hunts coons at nite.
I have gone with him and we spot lite the coon and try
to get a good head shot with a .22.
He skins and sells the hides and sells the coon body to
people that eat them. He always leaves one foot on the coon
cause he said the people that buy the coons want to know
they are not gettin a cat. ;D
Did you know that the male raccoon has an ivory bone in him? Its easy to figure out ;D........Mountain man toothpicks they called em.....hmmmmmmm
Man, what a night. First the coon, than I fell over while trying to take my jeans off before a shower. Then the steam from the shower set off the fire alarm and my wife whacked me with button on the sweater she was violently swinging at the fire alarm to try to make it stop buzzing. I need a beer!
Quote from: StickyDan on September 27, 2010, 08:10:11 PM
Man, what a night. First the coon, than I fell over while trying to take my jeans off before a shower. Then the steam from the shower set off the fire alarm and my wife whacked me with button on the sweater she was violently swinging at the fire alarm to try to make it stop buzzing. I need a beer!
Please post pics! please. ;D
Quote from: classicrockgriller on September 27, 2010, 08:11:29 PM
Quote from: StickyDan on September 27, 2010, 08:10:11 PM
Man, what a night. First the coon, than I fell over while trying to take my jeans off before a shower. Then the steam from the shower set off the fire alarm and my wife whacked me with button on the sweater she was violently swinging at the fire alarm to try to make it stop buzzing. I need a beer!
Please post pics! please. ;D
Waist up, or just of the wife laughing as she does it.
Quote from: classicrockgriller on September 27, 2010, 08:11:29 PM
Quote from: StickyDan on September 27, 2010, 08:10:11 PM
Man, what a night. First the coon, than I fell over while trying to take my jeans off before a shower. Then the steam from the shower set off the fire alarm and my wife whacked me with button on the sweater she was violently swinging at the fire alarm to try to make it stop buzzing. I need a beer!
Please post pics! please. ;D
I dont know Sonny, it might not be a pretty picture :D
Trust me, nobody wants to see me laying on the floor buck nekid with jeans wrapped around my ankles. Wifey had a good laugh both about the pants and the sweater.
That's FUNNY! ;D
Dang! Dang! Dang!
Well SD, sometimes you just have an "off day". ;D Things will get better - after you get the jeans off. :D
Quote from: ArnieM on September 27, 2010, 09:45:29 PM
Well SD, sometimes you just have an "off day". ;D Things will get better - after you get the jeans off. :D
;D ;D ;D
The mental images playing in my head right now have me just about falling out of my chair because I am laughing so hard. Yep, that was bad day and deserves well more than a beer. At least your wife ended up in a humored mood, and that may have been worth it.
As I read this I recalled that my LL Bean Game and Fish Cookbook (c. 1983) had a section on Raccoon (along with Opossum, Beaver and Muskrat). So I got up and checked -- sure enough 5 Coon recipes. Three are for Roast Raccoon, one for Raccoon Pie and one for Barbecued Raccoon. The introductory comments for raccoon include details on dressing and defatting the critters and conclude with, "Dress a coon for roasting as you would a beaver". I got a kick out of the first line in the Pie recipe, "Raccoon pie is an old country dish in the Midwest and South and can be made the same way as Squirrel Cobbler".
The mental image I had as I started reading it, but before getting into the meat (so to speak- no pun intended) of the post, was that commercial for glasses, contacts or something where the lady is outside calling "kitty, kitty" and (apparently somewhat blind without her glasses) lets in a coon through the sliding glass door. Haven't had one in the house, but have had them in a "cabin" out back we have set up with antiques like a still room - i.e. lots of glass. Man, they can make a mess and make a woman cry!
As far as smoked coon. Was a point in young Caney's life where he and a friend decided to make some date money and trap coon. Did it for a year or two. My friend did not like it so I got most of it. Also gave much to a family that we bought tamales from. I've grilled it, fried it and had it in a stew. Not my favorite (it is fatty and is cousin to bear), but I ate it.
Speaking of coon bones. Baculum, oosik, Hillbilly toothpick - whatever you wanted to call it, I wish I had the mountain man necklace I made of probably 40 of them. It really made me quite charming, sophisticated, and desirable to possible female girlfriend types. >:( >:( >:(
sounds like it's time to think up a new recipe. Squirrel cobbler sounds pretty good too.
I forget to mention that just before the fire alarm went off, I noticed that one of the light bulbs in the ceiling fan was out. Wouldn't you know it, just I was screwing it back in and the bulb lit up, the darned fire alarm went off. My heart stopped for a second because I thought i was getting electrocuted. Wish I had the hole thing on Video.
I just wanted to add my 2 cents in here, SD can you please keep your pets
on your side of the river, we have our own problems over here. ;D See you soon
at Boonies, just getting the date figured out.
Ross