I'm so tired that I'l llet the video clip set the scene re:weather .
10 1/2 couple were put into the covert at 7:45am, and by 7:49 they had a fox up and on the move. A quick start thanks to a beautiful red fox with a big white tip on his brush. It happened so fast that all I go twith the camera was a few seconds of the hound music only moments after they got him up. . This fox made a quick swing through the woods behind a small pond and then headed south towards a paved road that marks the southern boundary of the hunt country. There he parallelled the paved road for a few hundred yards before making a swing back north, then a turn east in the direction of chicken houses that border the east side of the country. Reynard ran alongside that road briefly, then darted across it and hounds had to be stopped.
The run lasted only 55 minutes and all were on save Shamrock. She could be heard tonguing back by the pond. so I went to try to catch up with her while the hounds were brought back to the meet. I was able to stay with her as she picked her way on a cold line through some brambly woods,( much to Raps dismay!) but by the time the pack got close enough to hark them to her, she had given it up. It was now just after 9am, and our plan from the onset had been to be done by 9:30 . (" Plan your hunt and hunt your plan!") But a short hunt is better than no hunt, so we loaded Shamrock and that was it.
Rap had an easy day and I had plenty of time to get home, put hounds and horse up, and take Mel to Redden State Forest for an afternoon hack.
The only pics I got were of these two young, handsome bucks. I was walking through the woods on the way back to my trailer at the end of the hunt and noticed the two standing only 100 feet off the trail . They were frozen long enough for me to stop, turn Rap around, dig out the camera, and snap off about 20 shots.
PUMPKIN PIE CROISSANTS
2 packages of refrigerated Crescent roll dough
PUMPKIN PIE FILLING:
1/2 block cream cheese ( I used low fat)
1 cup of canned pure pumpkin ( NOT pumpkin pie filling)
3 TBs of sugar or Splenda
1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
For the filling:
Mix cream cheese, pumpkin,. sugar and pumpkin pie spice until smooth and creamy.
Unroll crescent dough and separate . Slice each piece of pastry lengthwise in half. ( So if there are 8 rolls in a tube, then you will end up with 16 pieces out of one package).
Place about 1 TBS of the filling along each piece of crescent roll and roll it up.
Mix 4 TBS of turbinado surgar( or regular sugar, if that's all you have), and another 1TBS, of the pumpkin pie spice together and roll each pumpkin pie croissant in the sugar/spicemix. Bake @ 375 F for about 15-18 minutes.
I drizzled them with a confectioners sugar glaze while they were still slightly warm.: mix a few TBS of 10x sugar with water, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract and 1 tbs melted butter to make glaze. (Glaze makes them shiny, but you can skip this step).
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